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No, there's no noticeable difference in the skin surface of my hands. Over years of practice, serious coin workers do develop substantial hand muscle strength a
by mrandish 4y ago
No, there's no noticeable difference in the skin surface of my hands. Over years of practice, serious coin workers do develop substantial hand muscle strength and joint flexibility but that's not visually noticeable. It's also just a byproduct of practice and not needed for most of what we do. The key physical ability isn't applying force, it's actually enhanced sensitivity. I can feel precisely where the coins are and feel how the weight is shifting as they move. This sensitivity enables precise control which is really the key thing.
- AndyNemmity 4y agoThe same is true for card magicians, and card handling. I have a lot of things I can do with my hands and joints that aren't something you can see. Same with enhanced sensitivity. I can fairly accurately tell you how many cards I pick up from a group. It's just practice, once you can do 2, you do 3, all the way up to 10, to 15 to 20.
- spdionis 4y agoFunnily enough, but also not surprising, it's the same for drummers and their preferred type of sticks.
- raincom 4y agoIt is called "kinesthesia", which is important in playing musical instruments, sports, flying aircraft, etc. With respect to flying, pilots trained by Army (navy, airforce) develop these skills far better than those directly recruited by carriers from colleges. We can see those results in some fatal crashes (Air France 447, Asiana 214). I am not blaming the pilots. When one flies with the aid of machines (fly by wire, simulators), one doesn't develop the kinesthesia required to get out of tricky situations(when instruments don't work or when instruments misread, etc).