I Make Big Money Slapping Spring Breakers, Hurricane Aiyana Tells OutKick
The drunken spirit of college Spring Break is alive and well at Fort Lauderdale hot spot Backyard where shot girl Hurricane Aiyana has turned into a viral superstar thanks to her ability to slap customers.
For $30, Aiyana will give you a Spring Break memory you'll be talking about the rest of your life. Order the Hurricane Shot and Aiyana will pull you up on the Backyard stage where you'll get on your knees, stick your mouth on a test tube shot that's sometimes positioned on the side of her bikini bottoms. You'll suck down the shot, Hurricane Aiyana will throw a pitcher of water into your face and then slap the shit out of you.
Business is boomin'.
(Hurricane Aiyana doing work on a customer at Backyard in Fort Lauderdale. / via Gabriela XBarbieri / @gabbycpbphotography)
The routine is a piece of pop art in a digital world. It's beautiful. The timing is precise. The colors are perfect. The high-definition videos are riveting. It's Spring Break at its best.
"I’m very good at making it look hard without actually hitting them as hard as I can. It’s show business," the former amateur boxer told OutKick just hours before her 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. shift. Just 15 days into the 45-day Spring Break run, the marine biology graduate is already hoarse and with no off days on the schedule until mid-April.
Spring Breakers are buying so many shots that Aiyana has had to expand her business to a helper who is also slapping college students. After doing an average of 50 slaps herself in 2023, Aiyana is up to 150-200 slaps per night.
Her assistant is doing just as many.
"I think the big reason way people like it is because I’m very small, so they don’t expect me to have the form, a good slap," the Connecticut native told OutKick. "I’m very good at making it look good without actually hitting them as hard as I can."
Relax, parents, Aiyana is a professional at this.
(For $30, Hurricane Aiyana will send Spring Breakers home with a memory they'll never forget / via Gabriela XBarbieri / @gabbycpbphotography)
This is a business. She has an LLC and takes this seriously.
Her deal with Backyard requires her to buy a tray of shots and then work on resale. She's a freelancer, but a professional freelancer.
"Before I do the shot, there’s a whole rundown. Safety first, of course. Everybody that gets a hurricane knows exactly what’s comin’ to them," she says. "They signed up for it. They paid for it. They want it. When they’re on the stage ready to take the shot, I run them through the rules."
- Take the shot
- Remove the tube from your mouth (if it shatters during a slap, it could cut a lip)
- After she throws the water in your face, DO NOT SHAKE YOUR HEAD due to the liquor going down. Take it like a man or a woman.
- Stay still. You're about to get slapped.
("DO NOT SHAKE YOUR HEAD," Hurricane Aiyana warns her customers before she slaps them. / via Gabriela XBarbieri / @gabbycpbphotography)
(The former amateur boxer lines up two of her customers. / via Gabriela XBarbieri / @gabbycpbphotography)
"It’s very important for them to listen. When alcohol is involved, things can go wrong. It’s my job to make sure everyone is being safe and nobody is getting genuinely hurt," Hurricane Aiyana continues.
It's not just the guys who are lining up to be slapped. Women want in on the action. Aiyana says that she's slapped as many women as guys this year.
Why?
"These kids are just crazy party animals and they do the craziest things on spring break in Fort Lauderdale. It’s just an entertaining party trick and there’s a bikini, I’m dancing with shots, it’s enticing to the boys," Aiyana, who sails the world 11 months out of the year says. "I think that it’s shocking and it’s unexpected. People want to see their friends get slapped by a hot girl."
Once Spring Break is over, Aiyana will go back to living on her sailboat the rest of the year and living her life wherever it takes her.
Last year, she sailed with friends across the Atlantic Ocean and spent the summer in Europe.
"The best advice my dad ever gave me when he figured out I had the traveling knack, he said, ‘One thing you can do anywhere in the world is bartending, so you should pick up that skill.’"
Little did dad know that his daughter would grow up to be a professional who has put her boxing skills to work.