some people, including me, handle them to get over the fear of them. i don't do it as much now, but used to when i first kept them. but i still rehouse the handleable species by hand, by letting them walk onto my hand from one enclosure, then off it into another one.
Also, to add to what Wilks said, some people are also curious as to what it would feel like to have a big spider walk all over your hands, I know I was when I got my first spider, I don't make a habit of handling any of mine but I do have one which will freely walk onto my hand and tolerates it very well, she's the calmest and most docile of my spiders.
Not all Brachys are flickers though or not all will flick loads, I have a large juvie B smithi, the biggest of my Brachys and it's not a flicker at all really but it is super fast and skittish, it seems to favour making a run for it to flicking but I know they're all different.
Why not,?
