The first thing to realize about the fingers is that, for the most part, each bone does not move independently.  To demonstrate this, hold your hand up in front of you, with the fingers facing across your body.  Your goal is to bend -only- the very tip of your index finger.  The first two bones in the finger should remain rigid. Can you do it?

It is possible (with practice), to bend individual segments of your finger, but it is something which almost never happens in real life.  Rather, each finger bends and curls as a whole.

What this means is that you can treat each finger as a whole. This will reduce the amount of controls you need to apply from three-per-finger to one-per-finger, thus reducing the amount of control for each hand from fifteen to five.  Already, this takes us a long way towards making fingers more manageable.

To set up these control structures yourself, just move on to the next page.
 
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