Cardistry Bootcamp: Fans (Beginner's Guide To Card Flourishing)

1. Trailer and Introduction: In the past 18 years, I have published several projects for cardists, three magazines, two books, and one card game. I've also recently completed this project on Instagram, where I have performed one new card flourishing every day for a whole year. In this Skillshare course, we're going to be looking at different ways in which you can fan a deck of playing cards. Don't worry. All of these are very, very, okay, not all of them, but, like, most of them are very approachable and you can start picking them up and practicing them right away. So grab your deck of playing cards, and let's get it started. Welcome to Cardistry Boot Camp fans. 2. Welcome To The Course: Hey, my name is Baz. Welcome to the Cardistry boot camp. In this course, we're going to be looking at fans. As you saw, probably in the trailer, that's why you're watching this course right. Now, I've been doing Cardistry for over 80. Wait, I actually already talked about that in the beginning. Let's just go directly into the course. Just grab a deck of playing cards. If we're going to talk about playing cards in the next episode, as well. I'm a little bit excited. I, you know, been working on this course, and I'm really happy with it, and I'm really happy how it turned out. And I think there's a bunch card fans in here that you can start picking up right away, and I'm pretty excited to show you everything that is in store here. So let's get it going. 3. Decks You NEED: For this course, you don't actually need anything more than a deck of play cards. I'm going to be using the Tally-Ho circle back because of two reasons. One, they're super cheap, and you can find them absolutely anywhere, probably even in Walmart or any magic shop. Any magic shop has them for, like, a couple of bucks, which is insanely perfect. And number two, number two is that they are the best. They're considered universally to be the best cards for cardist. And there's a very beautiful history with these playing cards because they've been used. Back when there were very popular forums in the cardist community called DeKunique and Cheaters Cheaters. And even when Theory 11 had a forum and people were, like, going there, people were using these cards because these were the go to playing cards before cards became a thing and everybody was printing their own playing cards. So, still, I use these. They look amazing. They feel amazing. But you can use any poker size playing cards that you want. Do know that these fans work with basically any playing cards, for that matter, they can be bridge. They can be mini cards. But we're gonna be learning with a poker size. So for the beginning, I advise you to learn with a poker size. But if your hands are a little bit smaller than mine, or, you know, you feel like you feel more comfortable with a bridge sized stick and definitely use that one. Let's get it going. 4. The Thumb Fan: The biggest misconception with the thumb fan is that everything is happening from the thumb fan as if your thumb fan is the one creating all of this fan. But the whole secret lies in your left hand fingers. Without your left hand fingers, the thumb fan would probably look something. Now, this is a very new deck, so it will by itself fan very well. I'm doing a lot of pressure from my thumb here, so it's very hard to actually do a bad fan. Let me try with the other one. The other hand. Now, now, because I already know exactly what I need to do. But when you place the deck inside your hand, first, when you're going to try and do this, the card is going to hit the base of your thumb, so you can't do it all the way. It's going to feel awkward, or you don't know exactly how to press on the playing cards. So it's just going to go like this. You're basically just expecting for all of the cards to move, but in reality, just the top few move. So there's a couple of things happening over here. The first thing is the way that we hold the fan, how we hold the deck. We're going to place it over here in the crutch of our hand, and we're going to place our left thumb all the way to the other corner. From this position, we're going to really keep the deck tight in between our finger and the rest of our fingers. But don't keep it way too tight. Like, don't squish it just enough so the cars don't slip away. From this position, our thumb over here is basically going to glide. So it's going to start from the bottom, and it's going to glide all the way to the top. So it doesn't stay in the same position. If it would stay in the same position, you see I would fan the bottom cards, and then that would be it. This is actually a technique we're going to use much later for other fans. But for this one, we need to be able to glide. So we start from the bottom and now we're here, okay? So we start from here, we go a little bit, and then we move our thumb a little bit higher, and then we move our thumb a little bit higher. So basically, you see that's what's happening. You start from the bottom, and then you slowly make your way to the top. I just cannot not get Drake out of my head every time I say that. So get this gliding motion. It's going to help you a little bit if you bevel the cards like this, and then imagine that your thumb is making its way up to the top, climbing all of these cards to the top. And you should get something similar to this. Now, once you get in the motion of being able to do that, obviously, you have to do it in a circular motion. But then what's going to help you is if you apply a little bit of pressure on the playing cards. S? With my thumb, I'm going to push down on the cards and do this motion at the same time. By pressing down on the playing cards, the pressure from your thumb is going to help them arrange in a beautiful fashion like this, see? The positioning of your right thumb is also very important. You're not just placing it somewhere randomly, though most of the times it's going to work. But if you place it here at the outer corner, you're going to have much more control over the cards. And in reality, with the basic fan thumb fan, that is it. As long as you hold it over here, seeing in this fashion with the cards a little bit crooked like this. And then we do the thumb fan, you should get something like that. Now, in time, you are going to start moving your fingers underneath, sort of like playing the guitar, in order to allow the cards to expand more, notice that I am curling them a little bit underneath, just like this a little bit, so that I can actually make a bigger fan. So it's not just this, see, it's not just a straight line almost, but rather, I already turn the cards like that. And then see just like that, I can almost make a 360 fan like this. Now, once more, we just push it like that. My fingers are a little bit curled in. I am applying pressure right here at this corner with my curled fingers over there. And then I'm doing the fan all the way through so that I can make this V shape almost, just like that. Now, when you want to close the fan using one single hand, you are going to twist, just like this, your index finger, push the cards forward, and at the same time, your other fingers are going to pull. So it's this motion where you're pulling and pushing with your index and with the middle finger. See, I'm pushing and I'm pulling at the same time. And due to the momentum, you're going to get this because if I would just push and pull, it's only until here. So in order to close the rest, you have to rely on the momentum. So you start doing it, and then you tilt your hand towards yourself. And you release part of the pressure from your index finger, but you still keep a little bit pressing on the card so that they have something to hold on. Notice that my nail is actually the one that is being pressed against the cards because this way, they can slide down without latching onto the tip of my finger. On the nail, they can slide. On the tip of my finger, they will probably stick because sometimes I have sweat and you get something like this. There you go, guys. I know I'm over explaining maybe a little bit to the thumb fan. Maybe some of you have already gotten it, but the idea is that this is the fundamentals. If you can get the thumb fan, you can do a lot more from that position, which is exactly what we're going to do. And this is why I wanted to make sure that you have everything that is necessary in order to do it. 5. Index Fan: A variation on the thumb fan is the index fan, and you will see many people do this at the beginning when they are learning cardistry. They will use their index because it is much easier to slide our index from the bottom all the way to the top than it is to do this with our thumb. So, yes, I know I explained something a little bit more difficult at the beginning because now this is going to feel much easier. But I don't necessarily like this fan because there's something weird about having one finger sticking out like this. As having the thumb over here feels much more natural. I think it's probably because the thumb is smaller, so it's cuter or because there's two thumbs over here and it feels more natural to see instead of seeing this, which feels very geometric for some reason. So if you find still, if you find this to be much more suitable for you, definitely do it using your index finger. 6. The Infinite Fan: For the infinite thumb fan, we're actually doing something opposite to the Siamese Fan. Instead of fanning the cards from the bottom, we're starting with the cards from the top. So notice that over here, we've actually fanned the top 20 cards. Now, if I move my thumb on this position and I just pull, it's going to just push the playing cards, obviously. But what we want, we want to continue fanning the cards. So we're going to go all the way to the left. And almost do another fan on top of the one that exists. But in reality, it's all of these cards are being spread. They're being spread out so that they now go over the other ones. And notice how you can keep doing this and it becomes an infinite fan where the name actually comes from. So spread these a little bit. Then we come over here to the left side, and we do a similar motion where we're coming towards the top. And then again, over here in a similar motion where we're coming towards the top. One thing that you will notice is that since these cards are moving in a much more chaotic way than when you're doing a normal thumb fan, you're going to have to play a little bit with the pressure from your fingers underneath. So over here, a little bit, they're moving. Let me do that from the beginning. Here, Boom, then all the way to the left, boom, and then boom. Now, one thing that I would tell you is when you're doing this, the pressure from your left hand is juggling between the index finger and the middle finger. So when you are doing this, you are just applying pressure from your index finger mostly. But when you're doing this, a little bit, I'm feeling that the index is pushing in the beginning and then I'm moving towards the right one. Maybe maybe you shouldn't think about stuff like this, try and try and do it. Maybe I'm over explaining. I just realized, do this, see how it looks, and keep playing with the pressure from both your right thumb and your left hand, and you will find something that feels right. And then you will have done the Infinite Fan. 7. Inverse Thumb Fan: So we've learned how to do this fan, where we're going counter clockwise to place it, and now we're going to learn the opposite one. So this is basically like the windshield fan where we're doing it with one hand. But in this case, instead of using our right fingers to do this, we're using our left fingers to guide the whole deck into a fan. We're applying pressure with our thumb from the top on this side, and underneath our index finger is curled and applying pressure as well. Then all we need to do is use our left finger, any finger that you wish, and just go in a clockwise motion in order to create the fan. It should happen by itself. There shouldn't be any motion from the left hand. It's basically just sitting like that. See, like this. And then while it's keeping pressure, I'm just using my left hand to create the fan, just like that. Around with the way where you're placing your thumb based on where you're placing it, you're going to get a different shaped fan, as you can see over here. And I feel like this is definitely one that you should know because it's nice to go from this one into other combinations for cardistry. See? And it flows really well, and it's super easy. 8. The Fan Drop: One way in which you can practice your thumb fan is to be able to make a thumb fan, which you can actually place on your right hand. Now, this is a little bit different than just a regular thumb fan. Sometimes we would do a thumb fan like this, and you will notice that this section in the center isn't actually very stable. If I would put this on my finger over here, it wouldn't actually sit because we need a very solid foundation here in the center. So whereas usually when you do a thumb fan, you don't really think about how exactly you want this thumb fan to look. You're doing this one, you are making sure that you have a very strong core over here. Notice how all of these cards rotated and they ended up back in the same spot. This allows me to place this fan over here on my hand and to balance it. Now, the way that we do this is by moving our thumb a little bit higher over here towards the center, and this is going to allow the deck to basically rotate much closer. Well, oh, stuff like this does happen, especially when we're looking at the camera, and this is why we got to get accustomed to picking them up. There we go. So when we're doing this, I place the thumb a little bit higher, as you can see, I'm fanning the cards, and you will notice that it feels much, much sturdier now when you let go. Everything will just sit there. And we're going to place this section right over here in this on this hole. So we're placing it right here in the center. So this part over here is going right here in the center. And you'll notice that the fan can just stay over there. Now, if we just throw this and catch it as we did before, it will look as if it's a very, very difficult move. But in reality, all you're doing is you're just positioning it back where you put it from. See, I can put it back over there and catch it again. Because we have a strong foundation over there, the cards won't actually split and go all over the place. They will stay together. And this is called a fan toss. It's a great way in which you can practice your thumb fan and also show off because it's such a nice move. Let's see. There we go. Oh, look at that. This is something that happens sometimes when you drop your cards on the floor and something goes inside. You know, starts splitting over there, but it's okay. We can still do it and catch the cards. And there you go. 9. The Double Fan: For this one, we're actually doing a fan inside of a fan. So we're going to repeat the thing that we did for the Siamese Fan, where we're just spreading the bottom part, as you can see. And from here, we're going to push all of this forward over here. So notice that I have to lift off my thumb, which means that this whole fan is being supported by my right hand. So I come over here. I'm pushing down on the back of the fan so that I can move this forward. And now my thumb is going to move in this position. And we repeat the same thing and execute another fan. Or to close it, we have to go backwards over here, and then we close it from over there. So, once we're here, we can just instantly push this to that position. Square everything up a little bit so that it's a little bit more tidy, and then we can fan this again to have a double fan. You can even move it a little bit with your fingers from underneath in order to give it some fluid motion. Let's go over it again. The bottom part, once we're here, I can already move this forward. Fan again, once we're here, we can move the fans a little bit by closing our fingers just a little bit, not enough so that it splits over there. Then we close it over here, and we close it from the other side down. Boom, moves, boom, show, and then we close it the other way around. 10. The Smear Fan: The next fan that we're going to learn is called the Smear Fan, and that's because of this motion that you're doing with your fingers, your fingers are curling in like this as if they're doing a dance, and your thumb is going the opposite direction. If you put some playing cards while you're doing that, you should get something similar to this. Now, in no way do I think that it is as simple as I am just telling you right now because I've been doing it for so many years that at this point, it probably will not look like this. You know, I know it is a bit discouraging to see me doing it like that as if it's easy to just get this. But there's a lot of micro motions that I'm doing without even realizing. So it's very important the way that these fingers move. Notice that when I'm moving them, it starts out as a small spread, but then these fingers are bringing the cards at an angle, see? And it is the way that they move inside. But most importantly, it's the pressure. So at the beginning, we start off with all of the fingers, but then these two fingers from the bottom are actually moving away in order for these two to do this. So my index finger and my thumb are holding the foundation of the fan, and my middle finger is guiding all of the rest of the cards over here and the middle finger is over here. Now, let's just focus on the bottom part, right? So thumb over here at the corner, fingers straight, right? Now, I start moving my thumb just like this. And applying pressure at the same time. There we go. And then my fingers from over here are going to start their motion as well. So they start their motion, and my thumb is going to continue extending. So it's going to continue extending. You're going to drop cards at the beginning, and you're going to drop cards a lot. When you're doing card industry, dropping cards becomes something that happens. I've asked people on Instagram, how many cards do they think they dropped? And many have talked about hundreds of thousands because it's something that happens. This is 20 cards. I just dropped them, and that's 20. Sometimes in a day, you can drop easily 500 or maybe even more if you're just practicing constantly. So a number like this shouldn't scare you at all, and you should definitely not feel ashamed if you're dropping cards. So many people will even begin in this position over here, see? Because this way they can come over here, and get much easier into this smearing motion into this motion. But for the beginning, don't have to worry about that because just as well you can get into this position, see where you're doing it over here with the hand. Now, there's not much more I have to tell you about. You break half of the deck, you move it forward. I keep it between my fingers. I grip this part, and I am doing the fan. And there you go, guys. That is the Smear fan. 11. Two Handed Smear Fan: Take a look at this bad boy. We're going to be using two hands in order to create a Smear fan. So if usually we're doing a Smear fan using just one hand, in this case, we're going to use our left hand to spread all of these cards even more so that we have a bigger Smear fan. This is like a two handed Smear fan or a big boy Smear fan. Now, the only thing that's different from here is that we're going to be grabbing the deck in this position, which is usual for the Smear fan. See, from over here. But instead of just doing that one thing, we're going to use our left fingers to spread all of these cards. So we're using our right thumb to spread these ones from the top, and we're using our left fingers to spread all of these ones. And notice that I can actually go the extra mile until I'm almost completely going 360. Can even probably do a 360 if you move your finger out of the way. Take a look at that. Take a look at that bad boy right over there. So the way that that happens. So you see, I'm just spreading with my thumb over here at the corner a little bit. I'm keeping with my hands all of these ones, and then I'm spreading them as I'm lifting my fingers as I'm extending. Sorry about that. There you. Now, I put them back this way. If I want to have a 361, I start doing it, and then at this point, instead of keeping my index finger underneath, I'm going to move it over here. So you can even start like that, but it's weird. It's just a weird position to be in. So you go here and when you're here, you can actually have oh, no, actually, your other fingers are going underneath. EcusmiEczmi. So it's not your index finger, it's the other fingers. So you go from over here, and then these fingers are extending and they're going underneath of that card. So spread, and then these ones are extending and they're getting the card from underneath. Then I can actually spread all of these, prepare to pick up cards from the floor, maybe, maybe not. And we're extending them in a circle until they almost touch the other ones. So we have a full, full fan. Around with it. I just like doing it this way. I feel like it's got a nice ring to it, you know, when you're just you're over here and then boom, you're just spreading all of that. It is possible, I think, to actually do it with just one hand, the smear fan like that, but I've always found it so comfy, you know, like a coffee Smear fan, basically. So there you go, guys. A coffee Smear fan and also one where you can actually extend. And there we go. We're gonna pick up cards now. Okay. 12. The S Fan: Now that you know how to make a Smear fan, well, I'm just saying now that you know it's not like you're not watching the rest of the videos one after the other, and it's completely fine. Don't worry about it. I think it's nice to be able to practice things in different ways, even though you can't completely do a Smear fan in each hand. One of the most challenging things about cardist is that many things you'll have to learn in your right hand, and then right afterwards, you're probably going to have to learn the same thing in your left hand. And that's because when you're doing Cardistry, you're going to be using both hands sometimes completely equally. Even in double cuts like this in two handed cuts. Each one of our hands does something individually. And in the beginning, you learn this from something as simple as a Smear fan. So I said as simple. I'm sorry about that. Everything feels a little bit more difficult in the beginning, but it was just like, you know what I'm saying? So we have the Smear fan over here, and we learn it in the left hand as well. It's the same thing where you do it in the left hand, okay? It's going to take a couple of days, but don't worry about it. Now, the way that you can do it in a simple way is you break both packets. You move them like this. You grab the first one over here and notice that I'm grabbing it so that I can hold it. And I'm grabbing it like this in that fashion that I showed you. This is because I want to separate both packets. I put my fingers over here, and then I fan both. Now, this in itself is very beautiful as you have two fans, but you can also connect them, and the way that I connect them is by going with my fingers underneath and putting this fan on top. And now we have the fundamental S fan. This is the most classic way of performing an S fan. We go like this and then just like that. It is a beautiful way to practice your Smear Fan, to put them together like this. It's also a little bit corny because it has been done so much since the 60s that magicians have developed a certain hate for it. But hey, don't listen to them. I still think it is amazing, you know? Look at that. Beautiful. Now, you have seen me do this, go from this position, and this is the way that normally people would go into a double fan into split fans. This is how they're called split fans. So the way that I do this is by having the cards in this position, which is called the Bittle grip position in our right hand. I come with my left hand. Either you can riffle, which is more advanced, you press with your index finger on the back and with your thumb, you pull back like this. And this happens because the cards are a little bit bevelled like that so that you can glide your thumb on the side. So I riffle, I allow this to fall in my hands and flip. And now from over here, I move my fingers to the side and I go into the Smear fan, just like that. Now, one of the things that you might do that actually I do by mistake, is that you notice that this one card is almost going to fall. That's because I placed my left hand thumb way too much to the side over here so that when I'm doing the Smear fan, you can see that card is almost falling. There's nothing almost nothing holding it there. In order to avoid doing that, make sure that you place your thumb not completely to the corner, but a little bit towards the center. And this is going to allow you a much better grip on the top section as well. And there you go, guys. That was the split fans. 13. Windshield Fan: Here's another way in which we can perform a one handed fan. This is part of the windshield routine from card manipulation where magicians used to open and close fans, kind of like how the wind wipers in a car go up and down. And this has become a very popular way of performing one handed fans, mainly because it gives you this version of the S fan, you know? Now, I've shown you a couple of things that you can do with this just because this is going to be a little bit more difficult than the Smear Fan, and you might feel a little bit discouraged to learn this one, as well, but it is a very beautiful fan to do. So here's what happens over here. We're going to place our fingers and open them the opposite way. But you do it by placing it in this grip. Notice that my finger is curled in inside, and I'm going to extend it outwards. So this is what happens when only my index moves, see? We can already get to this position. So if just our index moves from here to here, and our thumb holds the playing cards over here, we are going to get this. Now, in order to extend the rest of the playing cards, we're going to have to help our fan with the rest of our fingers and our index finger, once it goes here, we'll have to bring it back. And this is what gives it that last shape. So it's our index finger bringing the cards back a little bit and the rest of our fingers extending those cards. So watch. Extend, and then my fingers are going to extend the rest over there, just like that. Let's get into a different position. Here. Watch. Boom. See? Now, obviously, I probably could have thought this through and shown you this from a different point of view. See how my fingers extend over there and push on the playing cards. That's exactly what you want to happen over here. So this last part is our fingers going upwards over here. See, like that. Let's go back. We go up, this is just our index finger. Then we push a little bit with our fingers, and then we curl in our index to bring the fan into a semicircle. So over here, push a little bit and then bring the cards back. Push, and the card should move into a semicircle over here. Now, I keep wanting to do this fan. It's very similar in position to the Carnahan fan that we have over here. But you have to understand that here is just a slow, slow movement. Where you're just opening the fingers, opening the fingers. Play around with it. Play around with it, and you're going to find exactly the movement and the pressure. That is very important. It's a combination of movement and pressure. Look, I'm doing it super slow. The pressure very, very soft, very soft, and it's still moving. So you don't need to put a lot of pressure. This is a lot of pressure now. See. So both of them work, but try and be calm when you're doing it. Boom. Boom. And you're going to get something like this at one point. If you have any questions, obviously, drop them in the section below, and I will definitely answer them if there are any. 14. S Spread Fan: Now, this is a variation on the Ascari fan by Huron Low, and we're just spreading the cards over here and then guiding them in an S shape. So this is similar to the other fan that we learned over here where we're spreading the cards, and then we're guiding them. But instead of spreading them and pushing them, we're just going to bring them like this towards ourselves. So we go here. You see, I'm already shaping the S. And then I'm going to guide the cards a little bit towards the inside. And then when I'm over here, I'm going to use my hand to give them the other part of the S. So one see over here, and then it goes. Now, the idea is that this happens by itself. You see how the center part just rotates and there's already an S shape. And that's mainly because when you're in this position, if we're using our left hand over here, to just bring these cards inwards while we're also retaining the same shape. Notice over here, I am just moving my hand inwards. The whole fan will create this shape by itself. Here, and notice. I'm not doing anything. I'm just moving inwards. This fan will be created, and then these cards will also follow the other cards. And this is what creates this a fan. As if you are fanning them yourself, but you are also helping the fan a little bit. So when you're over here, I could just push, as you can see, but it doesn't have a perfect shape. So in order to create that perfect shape, I put my thumb over there. This is going to help give it that nice twist at that point. And I'm also using my fingers to just push them back a little bit. Here, I start moving, see? And putting my thumb, using the pressure from my hand to create this fan, and then I stop in this position over there. And then I just come back. Now, there are many ways in which you can do an S fan. As we saw, we can do it. From these fans, we can do it from the regular fans. But this version especially is very close to my heart because it happens as if instantly. And whenever I show this to somebody, especially if they've never seen cardist, they're very amazed by this. I have to do something to this one card. You see that keeps sticking over there. There we go. And that is the Spread Fan. 15. The Siamese Fan: For the Siamese Fan, we're going to combine a thumb fan with a smear fan. Now, it doesn't look like much from this point of view, but from the front, you saw how it looks. It's got a really nice aesthetic to it. So we're going to do a thumb fan, but instead of fanning all of the playing cards, we're actually keeping half of the deck in this position. So the way that we do this, we have to control just how many cards we're fanning. And notice that I've left half of the deck over here. The way that I do this is that instead of just going with my thumb all the way to the top of the deck, I'm actually stopping in the center somewhere over there. So I'm actually just spreading the bottom half as much as I can. Now, one more tip that you can do when you're doing a thumb fan is to already bevel the cards a little bit from the beginning. Say, I'm already beveling the cards over here. And then when I'm gripping the cards, I'm gripping them with my right hand from this part as well, and this is going to help me just a little bit manage how many cards I'm taking. Another way that you can do this is by splitting the deck half like that. So now you can actually fan these, and then you can take the maybe actually, maybe that's a different moment. That's a different fan. We can do this just a little bit, see, a little bit so that we can take a look exactly until where we can actually move our thumb. This is supposed just to be like a tricycle, you know, where you're just helping yourself a little bit focus on that part. Now, once you're in this position, you're going to grab everything from this point and do a smear fan with your right hand over here, and we're just going to smear fan the cards like that. Now, from the front, it's got a nice aesthetic. I actually move the camera a little bit as well. From the back, it looks very, very let's say, okay. Over here, and then from this position, we're going to extend our hand just like that. Notice that the thumb fan doesn't move at all. Once you're over here, the thumb moves here, I'm releasing with my thumb and I'm moving the rest just like that. And then we have the Siamese Fan. To close it, we bring it back here, and then we close everything like that. 16. THOH Fan: Here is another way in which you can execute a fan. In a sense, you're actually using your middle finger from the other hand to execute this fan, so it's not a thumb fan, it's not an index fan, but it's a middle finger fan. You can laugh about that as much as you want. Now, the idea is that this fan by itself might not look so surprising, but this one is going to be at the core of many other fans that you're going to encounter later on. So let's check it out. We grip the fan over here with our right hand from the top and our index finger. So instead of holding it here, and fanning it like this. That's basically what's happening, by the way, when you're doing it from here, that's basically what's happening. You are gripping it from here and instead of doing it with one hand, from over there, or doing it from over here with two hands. Yes, in case you never tried, if you do the fan from your right hand with your left, it's going to look completely blank, and this is great if you're doing some magic tricks. So you are gripping the fan from underneath like that, on this section on this section, and you are doing this. Now, if you want, you can start with it like this where you're holding it here and then you're fanning it with your thumb. But afterwards, you're going to have to do it this way, the proper way. So we're gripping over here and then using our middle finger, we're going to guide the cards in a fan. Our right hand isn't doing anything. Our thumb obviously is guiding these cards, but besides that, the right hand isn't doing anything. It's just holding the deck, just like that. And then we're going to have this beautiful fan in our right hand. It's not much. But let me show you something that you can do with this. 17. Biz's Riffle Fan: So this is an early version of the Riffle Fan by Dimitri R Larry, and I devised this back in 2014. Now, we're holding the deck as usual over here, as when we are dribbling or when we are rifling. And the whole action of this happens as we are rifling the corner of the deck. So if you do not know how to do this, you hold the deck in this position, and then we press with our thumb on the back of the cards with our index, and our thumb just glides upwards on the index on the corner of the deck. But notice that my index also is coming towards the thumb, because this is what it's allowing the thumb to glide like this. Now, we're going to replicate this as our index finger from our left hand is applying pressure with the nail right here on this side of the packet. And if we do that, because our nail is allowing the cards to basically move, it's going to create a nice fan like that. Op. Now, when you are performing the fan, I'm not just riffling from here and expecting something to happen. See if we just riffle from this side, nothing will happen. That's because a lot of the action happens in this area as well. When I am dribbling, my fingers from here are actually moving like this because if they wouldn't move, the cards would start let me show you once. The cards wouldn't move. I'm doing it. I'm doing it by instinct. I actually don't think how that would work. I think Oh, no, I'm still doing it by instinct. It's very hard not to do it. So you start here and notice that the fingers will extend like that, and that is exactly what's happening here. In order to allow the card for the cards to actually become a fan, I'm actually extending my fingers from underneath to allow the cards to move into a fan like that. Besides this, there is momentum. So over here, we're holding the cards vertically. I'm allowing the cards to fall, and then as I move down, I'm also helping the fan form, see? So over here like that, the cards are moving, but also this part is being moved by my hand, and this part from over here, I'm moving it with my hand as well, like that. So rifle and move the fan at the same time, like that. You're going to have to play a little bit with the way that you place your nail over here in order to also allow the cars to move, but also hold them at the same time. Once you finish the motion, you can let go because your fingers from underneath are actually holding the whole fan, and it's going to give you this very nice aesthetic. Boom, just like that. Now, you can't always let go. If it's a compact fan like this one, then you can let go. I'm taking a look at the camera. There we go. Then you can let go because it's all sitting in one place. But if you're doing a much bigger fan for some reason like this one, now I know I can't really let go here because the cards are going to run out. So you will feel it. This is a feeling thing. You will realize. But as long as you can do this and you allow the cards to fall, notice that as the cards are falling, I am moving my wrist towards my right side in order for them to sit into a nice fan. And there you go, guys. That is the dribble fan. The Riffle fan. That is the Riffle Fan. And there you go, guys. And there you go, guys. That is the Riffle Fan by Biz. 18. S Fan Second Version: Here is an S fan where you end up holding it with just one single hand. Now, this is based on two previous fans, which we've already learned. First one, we're going to fan the cards, similar to what we learned when we wanted to do the fan tas. So you want to make this fan smaller. Don't try and make a very big fan like that. Second thing, we're going to spread. We're going to fan just the bottom section. So notice that I have fan over here and now the bottom section is done, and we still have a big packet over here, which we're going to fan the second time. Now, the way that we grab this whole thing is by inserting these fingers like this. So from underneath, here's what's happening. My thumb is going to be there, and I'm placing in a piece style my fingers so that they hold the whole fan. Over here. From underneath, I'm placing it on my palm, and then my thumb is coming right over here. So as you can see, this is how I'm holding the fan. So now all I need to do is come with my thumb and then execute the end of this fan. Now, depending on where you place your thumb, you're going to get a different S shape over there, see? But you're going to end up in this very beautiful manner with just one single hand holding everything. Now, obviously, this section is equally as important because how big or how small you make this curvature, then you're going to have it over here, see? Well, this takes a little bit of playing, and then you're definitely going to find one style that you like. So we're over here, I place my thumb, fan the cards, and then I have this S in both my hands. When I want to close it, come from over here, start closing, and we're completely done. And there you go, guys. 19. The Pizza Fan: So in order to do the pizza fan, we're going to split the deck into a quarter over here, just like that. Place it so it's exactly at this point in the hand. Then we're going to place another part of the deck, equal to that right underneath, as you can see just like this, and we're going to place one right in the center. And from here, it's completely easy. This is one of the easiest fans, and I love it. This is why I call it the pizza fan. You place your other hand so your thumbs are kissing, just like that, and then both hands are going to move in opposite directions. So the left hand is moving leftwards, and the right hand is moving rightwards, as you're applying pressure on the cards, and you'll notice that the cards are going to create this shape, this pizza shape, this circle shape by themselves, because you are applying pressure in both directions. And then you open it, you close it, and you're done. So fall here, put here in the center. Press, apply pressure in the center. What I do over here is I extend my pinky. So my pinky comes all the way over here. I extend it so that it's holding this side of the packet as well. And if I could show you from underneath, you will see that my hand is like this holding everything. So it starts off like that, but then it opens up in order to hold everything. When you're done, place your hand back on both packets, rotate them back in the same position. I come to the bottom, I grab everything, and I'm completely done. And there you go. That's the pizza fan. 20. Seashell Fan: This is called the Seashell Fan. And for this, we're going to direct our attention at this corner over here, as we're going to use our right fingers over here to just make a fan. So we're placing our thumb and the cards are revolving around the fact that there's pressure from our thumb applied on the corner. And our index and our middle finger are going to guide everything. But it's also our thumb that is moving. So it's not just sitting in place. It's applying pressure and moving at the same time. And it's because of this that we can create this shape. Now, we start with the thumb. We move a little bit, right? Then we continue moving. And then if we need to, somewhere around here, we're going to use our middle pinky and ring finger to extend these cards even more. So notice that when I'm starting, I'm not sitting over here. I could sit with my left hand completely stiff. But I feel like it looks a little bit awkward to just have the hand sit there, just like that, just sit there and then my right hand is doing everything. And I think it's nice if we have a little bit of surprise, you know, because when you're twisting your hand, nothing is visible, and then when you're turning it around, you can see the fan being made. So because of that, I'm twisting my right hand towards the inside, and this is going to allow me to also fan the cards from underneath from this position as I'm opening. So that's what's happening. You're going like that and opening them as well. I suppose you could even do it like that. If you cannot do it over here, you could grab the whole deck and then just create a fan. It looks different, right? It just looks like a normal fan from this point of view. You know, if you go like this and then you continue putting it, it doesn't really have flow to it, but in the beginning, let's say that it passes. But when you're feeling ready, definitely place your fingers over here at the corner, twist your wrist a little bit on the inside, start creating the fan, and then twist it around so that you have that seashell. Structure over there, you know, like. Just like that. Now, I apologize if the camera keeps focusing on my hand over there instead of on the cards. And you should get that this spiral, this very nice fibonacci spiral over here. And there you go. Corner, a little bit of a twist. Rotate. The fingers are doing this trip. So, you know, as it's spinning, and then when we want to put it back, put our fingers back, and we just rotate everything. Maybe I should just say this is the fibonacci fan, right? The spiral fan. The Fibonacci fan, there we go. 21. The Backhand Fan: This is called the Backhand Fan, and we're basically using our back hand as both a table and also the way that we're fanning the cards. As you can see, it's the motion of the hand that makes the fan. I'm going to explain with just the thumb. So you're basically doing this, as you can see, just that. There you go. Here's a backwards fan. Instead of doing it like that, we can go like this. It looks even better if we go like that. I never actually tried this. It looks bad. Let me tell you. So instead of doing it with your hand, you're doing it with the back of your hand. So you're doing that with the back of your hand. And your left hand, at the same time is moving counter counter clockwise. And spreading it on the back. As you can see, if we do it face up, it looks bad. This is why we're doing it face down like that. So I'm spreading, and my thumb from over here is extended because it needs to support this side of the fan. If my thumb is not there and we make a bigger fan, it's going to fall to the floor. So we start over here. Notice that I'm actually not completely straight, but at an angle. Here, I start extending counterclockwise with my wrist and then over here, I'm flipping everything. We're in this position, and then I'm using my left hand to create the rest of the fan. And then I place my right thumb. It's okay. I'm going to place my right thumb right over here underneath so that I can continue and leave them on top of the thumb. So here we start. We have over here, extend my thumb, spread a little bit, and display. When we want to close it, we place our hand back and we just reverse the motion. So let's see over here at an angle, reverse, show, put our hand back, and then we can bring it. If you're feeling a little bit ambitious, you can create a smaller fan over here, and instead of closing it, you can throw it and grab it in the other hand. So you make a smaller fan here because you can actually control how big the fan you're making based on how much you're moving your left hand when you're extending it like that. Then from over here, you can throw it and grab it in the other hand. It's very similar to the fan toss that we learned. But instead of having it over there, we're having it on the back of our hand, but it's absolutely the same thing. Here and there, place our thumb over here. I'm going to try and catch it in the right hand. There we go. And we are done. Obviously, now we're going to have to pick up all the cards from the floor, but this is cardistry what we're practicing, this is completely normal. 22. The Pressure Fan: The following fan on the list is called the Pressure Fan, and that's because we're going to apply a lot of pressure on the playing cards, right here. And notice that the cards fanned due to the pressure, not because we guided them with our finger, but because we pressed down and we sprung the cards from our hands. So it's very similar to doing this. But instead of doing that, we are doing it on the hands. So the way that this works, we're going to grab the cards, just bear with me. I know. It looks like it's going to be difficult, and it is weird in the beginning, mainly because these cards feel like they're very, very tough. So I suggest you split the deck into half and just play with half of the cards. So we grip the deck in ttle grip over here. We position it just like we usually do over there, maybe a little bit to the side. And then we're going to apply pressure inside over here. So our right hand applies pressure. And then because it's seated right over here at the corner, because of this pressure, the cards on the left side want to just do this. That's called under pressure from Dan and Dave. Over here, see? The cards just want to spring out. The way that under pressure thing works, this is a bonus for all of you guys watching is you're applying pressure over here at the corner and your index finger keeps applying pressure. You're going to feel those cards, just go away from your fingers. Now, obviously, if I just apply pressure, you'll have something like this. So what is actually happening when you're applying pressure is I am applying pressure, but I'm also moving my index finger. So I'm doing something like this, see? That's the motion that you want to have like that. Because when you're doing that with your index finger, those cards will want to come out. If you are just doing this and moving the fan or if you're just doing this and not moving your index finger, you're just going to get this. Nothing's going to happen. So the secret is in moving your fingers over here on the side, you know, like that and applying the pressure at the same time. S? When we're doing our pressure fan, we want to do the same motion of springing those cards into our left hand, but we're never going to stop. We're going to do that and create a fan at the same time. This fan became very, very popular in the card manipulation community because you can fan any deck of cards, no matter how old it is with this method. You can have a deck that is complete complete bat, like garbage, and you can still fan it perfectly using this method, because like I said, it's the pressure and not anything else that you're doing. There's many cards that if you'll do this, they're going to separate in blocks. But when you're doing the pressure fan, you're going to mostly get something like this, a very fluid fan structure. So there you go, guys. Fingers over here at the corner, thumb over there, grip, start applying pressure. And move. You're holding the whole fan between your left hand, thumb, and the palm, so you're going to have to have a really tight grip when you're doing this. Do that motion, and you're going to have this fan. And there you go. That is the pressure fan. 23. The Big Faro Fan: This is a big fan, as you can see, because it's big. The first thing that you're going to have to do is farrow. Now, a farro is a pretty pretty challenging move if you're a complete beginner, but with the right instructions, I'm sure that you can do it. First thing that you do is you break the deck into two halves, just like this. Now, make sure that the one in your right hand is actually bigger than the one in your left hand because when you're going to do the fan, you want to leave all of the cards in the right hand packet, as you can see. Don't have to think about, Oh, is this, fairly split? Do I have too many here? Even if you have too many, it's still going to look like a really good fan. See, that's quite a few cards, and it still looks pretty good over there. Kind of looks like a peacock for some reason. See? Just like that. So you don't have to worry about this in the beginning. Now, we break off, like I said, more cards in our right hand. You hit them so that you make sure that they're both straight. Now, here's what's going to happen here. I'm going to go at an angle and contact the top part and start sliding up and down. Now, the idea is that here, I want the cars to start going in. If you have a fairly good deck from bicycle, it's going to happen by itself, just if you push them forward. But if you push them forward and don't do anything, nothing's going to happen. Also, you don't want to push them dead in like this. Now, I might have done it, but in the beginning, it won't happen like that. It will definitely ruin your cards. So you want to go at an angle with your right hand, start weaving them in slightly. And then in order to keep weaving them in, notice that my right hand is coming inwards so that the cards can start going in, just like that. So let's go again. Put them in. My index finger is over here so that I make sure that the cards are sitting straight, making sure that the top card from this packet is the one that is going to arrive first. I start pushing them in and weaving them a little bit. Then I close in my wrist so that the cards can start moving in forward. Now, once you arrive in this position, in case one of the cards does not go in and it's over here, just push it down so that you're holding everything with your right hand. Move the packet into your left hand over here. Now, these cards just move them slightly to the right or to the left. Doesn't matter, as long as they don't sit completely straight, because it's going to look much better if they're slightly moved to one side. Grip everything in the center, move your right hand over here, and then do a fan as you normally would with a thumb fan, just like that. And you're going to get this position. And as long as you can do a thumb fan, you can definitely do this one much faster. Once you're over here, just close the fan, grip both sides. Squish them in and then do a bridge shuffle. So let's go over one more time. We're over here. We go in, we push, move them to the left or to the right, place this one in our left hand, grip everything. I like to do this with my index finger because for some reason, though at the end, I'm still squishing them in. But in the beginning, it helps me slide the packet left and right, a little bit more. Fan, once you arrive here, you can close it in or. If these cards aren't pushed in a lot, you can actually pick them up all of them, just like that. And then you have them over here and you can do a windshield fan with just one hand, and then you're back into this position over here. But we can talk more about combos a little bit later. But there you go, guys. This is a big ferro fan. Boom, boom. Spread them, show them over here, close them in. And you are done. 24. Expanded Big Fan: For the expanded big fan, we're going to first do a big fan over here. There we go. So we're just going to make it. And now over here, we're going to come with our right hand from the top so that we can hold the whole fan as our thumb moves underneath. In order for the thumb to move underneath, we need to also go in like this with our hand. S just like that. So it goes in so that now my thumb can be underneath over there. So we're creating space for our thumb to move in that position. Obviously, I'm going to have to pick up all of these cards. Boo, just like that. So let's do it again. We have the big thumb fan over here. Hold all of these cards, move our thumb underneath. And now our right hand is going to move these cards inwards, and our thumb is going to move those cards inwards, just like that. And our fingers just a little bit, they extend the cards. Now, as you can see, this is not really okay when you're teaching and, you're moving everything slower. But even if it looks a little bit like this, it still looks amazing, doesn't it? There you have it, guys. The extended big fan over here, over here, and then we are expanding it using our hands just like that. In order to close it, you can start moving your hand inwards until your thumb can actually move underneath and then start moving your left hand as well inwards. You're in a very weird position, as you can see, but this is going to allow you to grip everything with your right thumb from underneath and then bring them around so that you can put them back in your left hand in preparation for a bridge shuffle. And there you go, guys. That was the expanded big thumb fan. 25. The Jaspas Fan: Now, this fan was created by Jaspas, and as you can see, at its core, we're going to be doing this fan that we just learned. But instead of only fanning the cards, by the time that we arrive somewhere around here, our thumb is not going to stay on these cards, but rather move down just like that. So it's going to hold these cards but allow the following ones to be free in order for us to move them in a circle like that. So this happens over here. We start fanning, and once we get over here, you'll notice that your thumb can just move like that. It can move on the inside. And once it's on the inside, if you flip the fan, your thumb is now not holding these cards anymore. So you can use your left hand to just take these cards and continue spreading them in a circle on your hand, just like that. Now, obviously, it's a bit more difficult when you're doing it slow. Over here, see. And we're going to just twist them in a fan. So then you have this very beautiful display of a shell. It could be called the shell fan. But I'm just calling it Jaz pass fan because I have no idea how he called it. So I just shout out to Jaspas, obviously, that's why. But it has this shell, this shell shape. Now, you can go that way. So one thing that cardist do, they do the fan over here, and then they might separate this fan from that fan, something that I don't do, as you can see, I can't really do it, and then have two fans. If you want, you can try that. But if not, one thing that I like doing is instead of spreading the cards on my hand in a circle, I just spread them on my hand. So that is one thing. We're going to go here and then spread them on the hand over there. And as you can see, you have this nice display spread of a spread in a fan at the same time. I move forward. I get all of those cards, and then I'm left with a fan in my right hand. But this is part of the combos that we're going to be talking about later in this section. So one more time, Jaspas Fan, we come over here, we continue the spread. We can show it. If not, once you have the spread, you can actually spread them on whoop, touch the camera over there, and you can spread them. It's very difficult. Let me just get a nice position over here so you guys can see what's happening. Boom, see, I spread them on my hand. I can show them, and then I do the ending just like that. And that is the Jaz pass fan with a variation. Obviously, play a little bit with this fan, as there is many more things that you can do from this position when you're over there. As you can see, you can already make two fans if you just go the other way, but that is being jamming. That fan actually exists, so it would be idea we can actually learn that one as well. So I actually completely forgot about this fan. So when you're over here, you already have a packet here, so you have a fan, and using your hand and the fan, you're going to help yourself create another fan. Now, there was a lot of fans in one sentence. So here, you bring the whole packet together. You place your thumb as if you're going to do a fan, and then you're fanning those cards using your fingers from underneath, but also the fan from your right hand. And it's going to create a very similar fan to the Siamese twins that we did. Only this time, both fans look the same. You know, they have this ukchuk like an M shape. So like I said, this way of fanning the cards is definitely one that opens a lot of possibilities. So play along with it and see what you can find. 26. Moebius Fan: So this is almost like a mobius strip, but it's only half of the mobius strip, and it's based on the variation of the Carnahan fan that we learned. So we're going to start off in that position where we grip here. And instead of flipping the cards instantly on the back of our thumb, we are going to spread them and then contact them from the back with our fingers. So we're stopping them from fully going on the back of our fingers because if we allow them, all of this fan is going to turn. So what we want is instead of everything turn we're going to block parts of that to stay down. We're over here. We just go upwards. S I extend my index finger. We already have part of the fan. I'm blocking the cards from underneath, but I continue with my index finger to push and perform the Carnahan fan. If you keep doing that, you will have this shape where the cards create this S shape. Now, as you can see, cards might fall down because what you want is not to have a complete, very tight grip on this because if I have a very tight grip, these cards are going to fly off. I'm going to have these, which are separated. We're going to have a few sticking out over here. Maybe this is going to pop because as you can see, this is a much more fragile display. What we want is after the initial fan over here, we're going to stop the cards, and then we're going to allow them a little bit to go upwards. So I'm not completely stopping them. I'm allowing them a little bit, because if I don't going to pop like that. So spread, start allow. There we go. Allowing them, I need more cards. Yes, you do need half of the deck for this, but less cards won't work. So start spreading over here. To do this slowly, do the corona hand fan. And then over here, what I'm doing is I continue pushing in order to have the extra bend at the end. Here, continue and have that extra bend at the end. Now, this is going to put a strain on your index finger because you are using the index finger to bend all of these cards into a sound wave, just like that. While everything is holding this back, the index finger is holding by itself that whole section. So it will feel painful, a little bit painful. I would say that for sure. But with enough practice, you're going to be able to get exactly this shape, show it off, and then you come and you slowly close it back in your left hand. I do advise you to not practice this a lot at the beginning, because even now, I've been doing it for 4 minutes constantly, and my index finger hurts a lot, like a lot. So make sure to switch between the things that you're practicing so that you don't strain one finger a lot. And there you go. That is the mobius fan. 27. The Flower Fan: The following fan that we're going to learn is called the flower fan, and it's one of my favorites. But as you can see, I've switched decks because in order for this to work, you'll need to really destroy the deck. What I say destroy is that by doing this constantly, the deck will start being naturally bend in this way, instead of it being bend that way, you know? Now, this doesn't mean that you will fully destroy the deck. If you just bend it the other way around, you can still use it to play cards or to perform magic tricks. And even like this, it will still function completely well for any other cardist moves that you're practicing. But the other deck is one that I've been using quite for a little time, let's say, a couple of days. And this is a deck that I've worn out. So I've been using this for quite some time, which means that it's much easier to bend. The cards have bended so many times that at this point, it's much easier for me to bend it like this. Now, when you're starting off the flour fan, start off with less card. So don't go with the full deck, start off with half of the deck. We're going to basically be springing the cards just like when we did the waterfall fan from here or the cascade fan, however you want to call it. But instead of doing it this way, we're doing the same motion over here. So we're bending the cards, and what's going to happen is as our left hand is like this, we are going to make this C shape, which is actually the other way around, right? So we're going to go clockwise like this and slowly leave cards on our way. So we start doing, we bend, we start from over here. Now, our left hand is going to hold everything. And notice, I let go of a few cards, a few cards again. I let go of a few cards, and I keep leaving cards one by one. Now, over here, you will feel that this is the moment when you'll feel like your thumb is really holding everything together, you know? You might not get it from the first go because it's important to adjust and see exactly where you need to start off so that when you get somewhere around here, you can keep continuing and still have space on the thumb in order to do this. Because if you start off too deep, I can't go any further, see, because I don't have any space. But if you start off too high, then these cards might just spring forward. So start off in the center. See, I put my cards over here on this and on the thumb. I put them at an angle. I start going. I start applying pressure from both hands. Over here, I allow the cards by springing them. I'm springing them, and at the same time, I'm moving so that I can leave them hopefully quite neatly, the same space between each playing card. S, just like that. Now, this is a difficult fan. I'm not saying that this is supposed to be easy, but it's such a satisfying feeling when you're pulling it off because it's a very very unique fan, as you can see. It's not something that you'll see in movies. It's not something that you'll see every day somebody do because it's such a it's such a rare thing to do to bend cards like this, right? And take a look at that. It looks so nice even from this point of view. So one more time, get accustomed to doing this because this is what you're basically doing. What's happening when you're springing, it might just look like I'm doing nothing. But when I'm springing, this is bending. Nothing is happening when you're just bending. When you're springing, what's happening at a microscopic level is I'm bending and then I'm slowly twisting my thumb. See, I'm allowing the cards to escape. So I'm bending, and now if I just unflex my thumbs a little bit, but I continue bending. So the pressure isn't coming from the tip, but from this side, and the same applies here, not from the tip, but from this side, then this will give space for the cars to just spring. And we're doing the same thing here. We're bending and at the same time, we are slowly shifting the focus from the tip all the way over here to the first joint of the finger. So it starts off with pressure from the tip. And then as we make our way, now it's in the center of the thumb. I keep going. Now, as you can see, my thumb is in this position, which means it's at the first joint until it's fully elongated, because I need to apply pressure with just the joint, and then we'll have the full fan. Now, I am going in very, very much detail because these are the things that I really wish somebody told me exactly when I started because I didn't really understand what to do with my fingers. But this way, you know exactly what to pay attention to in the beginning and then you'll slowly be able to get a nice and great flower fan. If you put too much pressure on the thumbs, the cards might just go all over the place. But if you put too little pressure, then the cards will not stay together. So you have to play around and see exactly how much pressure you have to put. See, I'm applying pressure. Over here, I'm still applying pressure, pretty much. This is quite a lot of pressure, but not too much so that the cars just spring. And then when I want to finish, I just take it and place it down. There you go, guys. That's the flower fan. 28. Inverse Flower Fan: Mm. Here is the inverse of the flower fan. So instead of doing it from this side, where we're spreading from left to right clockwise, we're going to do it counter clockwise, and we're going to begin by gripping the bottom side of the packet over here, and we're going to place the top side right here on the palm. Now, the main difference between these two, because it might just feel as if you're going one way or the other, is the fact that for the first time, you're going to be using a lot of your pinky, your ring finger, and your middle finger. Whereas here, everything is being held together by your index, middle finger, and ring finger. Your pinky doesn't do anything. Here, you're going to feel a different side of your hand. You see, I haven't even arrived at my index. At this point, I can probably just hold everything. My index is just holding two cards, you know. So a lot of everything is sitting on the bottom part of your hand. So this might feel a little bit weird at the beginning. Also, when you're going from this position all the way to the top, notice that when I start, let's go over here. Sorry about that. Let's see. Notice that when I'm starting, I'm not actually starting over here. So I'm not starting in the center of the thumb, as I usually do. Because if we do that, the deck is way too high on this side. And if I keep going, I won't have any space in which to have these cards just sitting. So imagine that we start over here, not really over there, but somewhere over here. So we start over here, and because we're going counter clockwise, we'll have space. See, all of this becomes the space where the cards are going to sit, and we're going to grab the cards using this part of our fingers. This is why when we begin, we're going much deeper in the hand. We're starting somewhere over here. And even on the thumb, I'm not going over here. I'm going somewhere over here near the center of the joint, and we're doing the same thing. Now, another thing that I'm doing is I'm not sitting completely static with my left hand. Instead of sitting completely static, I'm going to actually go in opposite directions, as you can see, with both hands. So I'm starting over here and then I'm opening both of my hands. This is going to help you since it's going to leave your right hand in a much more comfortable position, then if you were to just sit still with your left hand, see, at one point, it's going to become very weird to go all the way to the top. So by moving both of our hands at the same time, we're going to have much more control over everything. There we go, and take a look at that. Now, isn't that beautiful? Take a look at how that looks. Then we can come back. Gripping at the bottom, all three fingers over here. Boom start springing slowly. And somewhere around here, my index finger is going to be put in position. And then towards the end, notice that I'm springing much less over here because all I want is to separate the cards. Here, the spring is much more powerful because I want to start spreading them. These are going to fall much hard to just maintain it. So here the spring is much more powerful, and then towards the end, I am actually springing them less and less because I want to have a little bit more control over these cards. Now, not only that, but when you're going from over here, yeah, it's your thumb, index, and middle finger. When you're doing it over here, it's your middle finger and all of these, right? So your middle finger is playing a big part over here. Which is going to feel a little bit weird in the beginning, but towards the end, notice that it's actually just the middle finger and the ring finger doing everything over here. So we're springing from there. Now, these are all the details. I'm telling you all the details because I think it's much better for you to hear them, and then you can start just playing around with the move yourself and with the positioning. You're going to drop cards just like I do, so don't worry about it at all. Just go back and build those flowers. There you go. Now, one way that you can end this after you have the fan, place your thumb right underneath and then close the left hand until you arrive over here. And it's going to give you this nice feeling. There we go over here. Boom, and now I can just close my hand and it feels very nice. You're ending in this gun position, you know. There you go, guys. That's the inverse flower fan. 29. Dragon S Fan: M so here's my way of performing a flower fan in an S shape. We're going to start off by fanning the cards, similar to a flower fan. But instead of completing the flower fan, as we usually do, we are going to continue, and we're going to go in this direction. So what's happening here is that I'm holding the cards from underneath with the pinky so that I can go completely down. So instead of going this way, instead of going like this, just until here, we are actually continuing. We're not stopping here, but I'm bringing everything a little bit more closer so that I can spring those cards inside of my hand. And these last few ones which are being held by my pinky and the base of my palm are going to be moved at an angle. And that's going to give us this S shape to the flower fan. So we start from over here. When we get over here, I continue, but I go inside of my palm, and then these ones, I'm going to spring and slowly move them out of my hand so that I can have an S shape to this. You will have to find an angle in which it looks good. It doesn't always look good. Sometimes it just looks like pure chaos. But when you get the spring of cards quite well, something like this, then you can get something that is abstract, but also sort of nice. It is difficult. This is a difficult flower fan version, but I've always wanted to have one that felt like an S fan. So I devised this one back in 2015. There we go over here. Notice that this will happen quite a few times, and it does happen when I'm not going deep enough into the palm. So I'm going here, and I'm not going deep enough. See if I go deep enough, then those cards will not spring out. So make sure that these cards are inside and that they're being held by your fingers and this side of your thumb. So you go inside, and then you'll end up with something. It's not always perfect. Over here, we go inside, and then these ones, I'm going to spring them out a little bit. Take a look at that and then I close it and I put it back. And that is the dragon flower fan. 30. Let's Jam Together: In this section, we're just going to jam together. This idea is, how do you string different flourishes into one single routine, right? So try and look at everything that you've learned and see which are the things that can go well together. Like, for example, from here, we can make one fan, right? It's cardist will always string them with a closer. S, I'm closing it on my index. I'm rotating it around and then putting here. So just like this motion around. So you can go here. This is Aviv span. We put it down. We can come here into this fan. I can bring all of these cards, show this one, bring this one, put it here. This is a bit awkward. Probably I wouldn't do that. Then I can close everything together. I can come and do one, bring the other one, make this and try and just have fun with the way that they move. So we go here, here, we put them together, right? We close, and then I go here, right? Put it here, boom. Fan. So just play along with the way that they flow and see what feels comfortable for you to do. Now, what are the succession of fans that you would like to string together? A very basic technique would be a very basic routine. Would you go from this one, close, this one, this one, And then, sorry, forgot this one over here, you stop. If you want, you can go into another one over here, but I always do this, but it's such an awkward position to be in. And you want to close completely flush like that. Now, the idea of fans is just to have a beautiful moment, a beautiful aesthetic of showing all the playing cards. You know, you don't even have to do, like, a lot one after the other. You don't got to do like nine. You just take two, three that you like and see how you like them and just do them like that. Here's one that I haven't shown you, but you can do as well, where you're doing the S fan and you're placing it on your wrist, but it's very uncomfortable for the wrist over here. It's very painful, actually. But it's got a nice aesthetic, you know, this idea of being able to do the S fan, and then just place it and have it on one hand over there, like that. See. But there you go, guys. Play around with them, string them together, see what you like, place them on the back of your hand like that, show them, you know, and have fun. Basically, that's the whole idea of cardist for you to just have fun with playing cards. 31. A Few Words Before I Elevator Out: And we've arrived at the end of this course. Thank you very much for being with me up until now. I hope you have learned some amazing fans that you can start playing around with. If you have any questions, leave them down in the description below. I just drop some playing cards, which is completely fine because during this course, you probably too have dropped maybe 1,000 playing cards, which you should always pride yourself with. Pride yourself with the number of playing cards that you have dropped because it means that you're trying. It means that you are getting better and you are practicing, and that is the best thing that you can do. My name is Biz, you can find me on Instagram. You can find me on Facebook. You can find me on TikTok. All in the description below, if you want to show me some love, you can show me some love anywhere until next time. I'll see you in the next episode. To