Card fanning is one of the card flourish that used many times by magicians on their performance. Either it used only for a playing cards flourish or with a purpose to let one of audience pick a random card from fanning cards.
Thumb fan is known as one of the simple cards fan technique. Spread the deck of cards, fan out in your hand with the help of your thumb and create a flashy looking fan.
The starting grip is essential to make a good card fan. Another factor that essential is the condition of the cards. The newer the cards the better and easier to make a good card fanning, and some playing cards brand are better than the others.
Card fanning tutorial – Thumb fan and index fan :
Fanning powder is also a good help for making a good playing card fan. Fanning powder makes your cards more smooth, slick and easier to handle and to fan.
Invisible Pass is a sleight of hands card tricks technique that cut and pass the bottom pile of the deck to the top. The invisible word used because all the movement are covered by the performer’s hands that make the movement is invisible to the audience.
Invisible card pass usually use on a card tricks where the audience choose a card, put it in the middle of cards deck, and in a split second the chosen card already on top of the cards deck.
The invisible pass use pinkie break technique. When the cards deck cut to let an audience put the chosen card, the magician put a pinkie break above the chosen card just before put the rest of the deck on top the chosen card. The magician then clamp the bottom pile, move it to the side and then to the top of the deck, and make the chosen card on top of the deck. All the movement covered by the magician’s hand and make the pass invisible to the audience.
How to do invisible pass, performance and tutorial:
Practice and watch the angle when you perform the invisible pas or the pass will be visible to your audience and ruin your card tricks performance
Card force tricks is a method in the magic tricks that offer an audience to choose a card randomly from cards deck, while actually the magician already know (”force”) which card will be chosen.
There are several ways to force a card. Riffle card force tricks is a simple and easy one. Take a cards deck, riffle it and ask one of your audience to say stop to choose a card, the “force” card.
Put the “force card” on top of cards deck. Then you could use false shuffle or any other techniques to make the card you want to force to stay on the top deck. After one of your audience say stop when you riffle the deck, you just slide the top card to the “stop position”.
Riffle force card tricks: Performance and tutorial:
Riffle card force technique like any other card force technique usually used on mind reading card tricks or card prediction tricks.