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I've never really tried pressure fans, i've always been happy enough using thumbfans but from what i gather you get more of a spread with a pressure fan... any tips and tricks i should know about?

The advise that really helped me was to hold the cards like you do when you spring the cards (just hold your hands alot closer) & then simply spring them into your left hand as you move your right hand in an arc.

I don't necessarily get more of a spread from pressure fans, but it is useful for extremely old and worn decks which wouldn't fan any other way.

I know this is what everyone says about all moves. But this is one especially that comes with repetition. Then one day you get it and you cant see that you did anything different. Get ready to go cane a load of cards. A great one to do though, looks lovely.

i was also eager to do pressure fans until i realised that tumb fans were just as effective, if not more so than a pressure fan, as it is possible to be more easily selective with the portion of deck fanned with a thumb fan. nuff said

though i agree with Daremyth that it is useful for worn decks.. i find i use the pressure fan when asked to do a trick with some one elses deck.. ie a deck forom behind the bar that has been used for 600 cribage games and soaked up a pint of various ales

hope this helped

Kitch

Pressure fan is really an essential skill, but it is a pain because it can't be taught, it's a knack. Sure you can be shown the basics like how to hold the cards etc but you just have to keep at it untill you get the knack. Once you get it though you never lose it. Truffler is right, be prepared to knacker a few packs of cards in the process. Mind you, it's a bit like the coin roll, some people get the knack first go (and don't the rest of us just hate those people )

Mark

A pressure fan is quick, and very accurate, once learned correctly. And as stated, it's a knack whihc somehow just happens.

There is a beauty to it, as generally, you get an even spread of indecies showing.

The key is PRESSURE! As stated in it's name, this fan is reliant on a bit of card abuse. My own method is to buckle the cards into an inverse C in my right hand, with the backs of the cards hugging the curve around my index finger, thumbcrotch and thumb.

Then, holding the left hand flat with the thumb up perpendicular to the index finger, place the C into the right angle between the left thumb/index finger.

Now, keeping the left hand almost still, 'draw' the cards around in a clockwise arc with your right hand—rotating the right wrist clockwise, keeping a constant pressure between the two hands. After a while, you'll see how the cards sort of get left in a fan around the left hand.

Depending on hand size etc. you will need to adjust the move, but pressure really is the key here.

It's a beautiful flourish.

i just learned to do a pressure fan smoothly and consistently but at first,i was confused in learning as it's sometimes known as a spring fan so in the beginning i was trying to kind off riffle the cards into position..However,it seems to be one of those flourishes that,all of a sudden,you take your self by surprise,and it appears..