"Leon Fisk" wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:37:18 -0600
Terry Coombs wrote:

Forging it ain't as easy as those guys on Youtube make it look .
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NPR ran an interesting article on this last week:

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SCIENCE
There's A Gap Between Perception And Reality When It Comes To
Learning
February 18, 2019 Heard on Morning Edition by Shankar Vedantam

Increasingly, people feel they can master tasks simply by watching
instructional videos like the kind you find on YouTube. But
sometimes
the gap between perception and reality can be deep and wide...
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https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/69563...es-to-learning

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI


Videos don't create muscle memory. I needed trial-and-error practice
to learn to strike the hot steel squarely, so it remained rectangular
as it thinned and lengthened instead of becoming a twisted wedge or
rhombus. This isn't exactly the same as learning to drive a nail
straight because the hammer face to handle angle is different.