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Hi im brillint at fanning but i cannot do a closing fan with one hand could any one help?

hey kyle,

its kinda difficult to describe without being able to show you physically.

A simple way to do it is to keep your thumb on the face of the cards, in the center,

while your other fingers are spread along the back of the deck, balancing the spread,

hold the deck vertically to the floor

while keeping your thumb in place, curl the other fingers into somewhat of a cup shape that is horizontal to the floor, cupping the bottom cards of the deck

you should have several cards from the fan litterally sitting in your palm, and its a quick motion of balance in which you release your thumbs grip and litterally just let the rest of the cards fall behind them into place naturally.

hope this helps!

best

Kirk

yeah basicaly what he said lol
Well i sort of just picked it up. I tried doing it so many times so that it became a knack of doing it.

I'm c*** (not the best) at fanning, but occasionaly I can do it, rather weirdly, I'm ok at closing it up, although...

Here's what I've found personally I needed to watch:-

Don't be afraid to increase the pressure of your grip.

Use mainly your index and second fingers (allow the ring finger to help when it all gets too much) to drag the cards together.

watch the fan itself, obviously if the fan is not positioned to the benefit of one hand (i.e. I always find the centre of the pack to be further away from the fingers, so I concentrate on keeping hold of that and somehow the others look after themselves). If I don't I find cards flying everywhere and falling out because it's difficult to keep them under control.

Obviously this only what I've found in my limited experience with this flourish, and I hope it makes sense!

lmw.

instead of using a one handed fan (which i can't do yet :s) i simply twist the fan around in a kind of 'wing flapping' motion- this is pretty hard to describe lol. but yeah. i'll put a video of it on youtube one day (along with a couple of other things a do)

hope this provides a resourseful sunbstitute. msn me if you (or anyone) wants to know more...

(gnownad@hotmail.com)

Kyle:

After the fan you are left with the cards in your left hand, with the left thumb on the back of the cards and your left fingers, fully extended and together, across the face.

Your left middle finger should be along what would be the bottom short end of the bottom card of the deck.

Take your left index finger, lift it from the deck and curl it down so it is closer to your palm. If the bottom card is a ten the tip of your left finger should rest approximately between the two pips along the long edge closest to your palm and the corner pip. It will probably be a little more towards the pip in the center of that group of five. (the left index finger should now be touching the card)

While slowly straightening your left index finger, curl your other fingers. The deck will pivot at about the point where the left index finger is holding the cards.

You will find that you will need to remove your left fingers from the deck (starting with the little finger) as you close the deck because they will not be able to move further and if they maintain contact the deck will not close any further.

When you are done closing the deck you will be holding it between the left index finger and the left thumb, with your other left-hand fingers in a good position to be straightened and brought over the top edge to square the cards up a bit.

Like most flourishes, start out slow, with practice you will be able to close the deck very quickly (less than one second).

I hope this helps.