The One Handed Fan for Magic Tricks

Video Transcript

"I’m Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com and today we’re going to learn about fans and spreads. The next thing we’ll discuss is the one handed fan, looks something like that. One handed fan you’ll want to hold the deck two fingers on the sides, the pinky and first finger below so you’re kind of holding it this way and your thumb is going to be at the back corner like so and basically what’s going to happen is these two fingers will hold it in place, these two fingers will just kind of guide the bottom and hold it in place as your thumb spreads it out, it’s kind of like you’re spreading out a large sum of cash but only you’re going to spread it once instead of you know the whole money sign there. So you’ll hold it, thumb will go down to the bottom and will come out and spread, as the thumb starts moving upward what happens to the position of your hands is important, so the thumbs in the back it starts pushing up, this first finger goes away so it can allow the cards to actually go up, these fingers here pivot like that, this pinky goes away as well so the cards can come down and you’re kind of doing this type of thing with two cards it’ll be this action just like that is happening, you want to use this as your get ready so all the cards stay put and as you start to spread you want to take your fingers away. So in full frame action it looks like that…and as you get to the highest point with your thumb these fingers here can even push some down to get a wider spread, depending on your hand size your range of motion with your thumb depends if you can do this with two decks of cards, one deck of cards, a quarter, most of the time you’re only going to be doing this with a small packet of cards as I’m demonstrating here but again you want to practice it so that from a stand point of the mathematical spread all the ridges, all the card numbers pretty much are visible for them to see and that’s the one handed fan."