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being faster than pulling the trigger every time.
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I've often heard people say "Its faster than pulling the trigger", but I've never understood how that can be possible.
Unless the gun is broken, it will not fire unless the trigger is pulled. When an SA is fanned or slip hammered, the trigger is still pulled. Its just pulled. and held back before or during cocking the hammer.
Elmer Keith covers slip hammering in his book "Sixguns" and had a couple of SA's modified for that.
I believe that damage to an SA from fanning is the result of the extra force the technique puts on the parts. The shooter is "slapping" the hammer back much harder (to get speed) than thumb cocking, and the guns are not built to survive that level of force working the mechanism.
It is, in some ways the equivalent of revving the engine and then "popping /dumping the clutch". Parts get jammed together with more force than what they were designed to run on, and over time (and sometimes very little time) things get worn or break before they otherwise would.