An interesting issue

I've been practising ready for a Wedding party in April. Now many magicians have said it's not always a great idea to perform amazing flourishes. These can either alienate an audience, or make the magician look like a show off or even just make an audience assume all tricks come down to slight of hand. That said there are few basics of card handling that appear useful. Springing the cards from hand to hand is according to Jay Sankey a superb way of letting it be known that there is a magician present when approaching a group of people. Like wise being able to perfom a basic ribon spread and turn over does not appear to be showing off and is the level of handling you'd expect from anyone who professionally uses cards for any reason. My Ribbon spread was appalling. After a few nights of practice it's much better, and on a velvet mat it looks quite eligant avery time i spread the cards. But after an hour pracitse I leaned back and started iddly double lifting. I sudenly noticed that every 3rd or 4 attempted ended in a treble lift. this is not good. Apparently all the pressure used to perform fans and spreads makes the card stick together and this a few dribbles are in order to separate out the cards. So there's the top tip for the day. After a few spreads take a moment to dribble or spring the cards. these are all useful flourishes but also will help any follow up slights out by separating the cards out for you.