nevermind about the ripping books without the popping technique i can go up to 1500 without it now but i would still like some tips on cards and is rolling up pans harder than phonebooks and cards by a lot cause i wanna try i just don't think i'm even near capable

is there any trick to ripping without using the popping technique i've ripped manhattan yellow pages with it and it takes me forever to do 450 pages without it even and manhattan was like 2400 and is there anything i can do to make it easier after the initial rip is started i'm 16 by the way and is there any trick or anything to make tearing cards easier it takes me like 2 minutes to do a full deck and i have noticed a lot of my problem is i'm just pushing the cards into my hand because my hands aren't far enough apart any suggestions?