Grip Combination

Practise combining regular grip and reverse grip across the two hands to expand your fan vocabulary. Nikki Scarano demonstrates keeping one hand in regular grip while the other switches into reverse grip during an opening and closing motion, creating a clear relationship between the arms and fan orientations.

Drill sliding between these grip variations smoothly, focusing on consistency of hand placement and clean timing through the open-close pathway. Use the mixed-grip setup to explore new shape combinations and find transitions that feel stable before adding speed or larger patterns.