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Hi

since my last post I have advanced a bit with the pressure fan, but still need a bit of advice. Here is a picture of the best pressure fan I can do at the moment.



I need some advice on getting it wider (my thumb always gets stuck halfway through the fan) and it always turns out lop sided with the top either sticking out to much (as it is in this photo) or the fan basically flat with little curve and the cards very densely packed. Here is a link to the tutorial I learnt it from. (I have been practising around 3 weeks to get it to the stage it is now, and would like to be able to get it bigger)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_37p7TKS8

Any help/ advice will be greatly received.

Tjex

that doesn't look too bad , i don't think you'll get it much bigger, why would you want/need too. i know what you mean about the thumb getting in the way though. its just a knack,My right thumb is usually perpendicular to my left one when when it is completed. The right thumb slides underneath the left. keep at it an soon you'll be right where you want to be.

this is just a flourish in most cases, as i find its very awkward to pick a card from a fan. id much rather spread them.

Thanks for the help.

When my right thumb reaches the left it always ends up facing the other way (as in back onto my right hand) and I have know idea on how to get it any further. all of the videos I have seen of people doing it let go of the cards with their right thumb by this time, I don't under sand how it's done.

ps. Does it really take up to 3 months to perfect?

Tjex1 wrote:ps. Does it really take up to 3 months to perfect?

It can do. It depends how often you practice, how long you practice, how you define 'perfect', etc

Tjex1 wrote:
When my right thumb reaches the left it always ends up facing the other way (as in back onto my right hand)

not quite sure what you mean here.

An in answer to your other question, it will take as long as it takes. Rubbish answer, i know, but thats the truth.

kolm wrote:

Tjex1 wrote:ps. Does it really take up to 3 months to perfect?

It can do. It depends how often you practice, how long you practice, how you define 'perfect', etc

I can practice around 2-4 hours a day whilst watching tv/ doing other stuff. I would class perfect as even spread with it as far as it can go to on either side of the hand.

In response to above I mean that my right thumb is curled under the rest of my hand, sort of. Its hard to explain, but it means I can't move my hand any hand any further. If I let go it results in me performing a flourish I have been practising a lot lately, the 52 card pick up...

To my eye, pressure fans always look better with the pips facing. Obviously facing you if you're practising, or the audience if you're performing. I can't help but think if you'd have turned those cards around in the picture, you'd have felt better about the fan.

I get what you mean about the thumb thing, but it will become natural to just remove it after a while.

as i say i usually slide my right thumb under my left. Maybe a picture would help here.

I agree with Grimshaw.

Fanning is a knack that will improve with practice.