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Telling someone they need to practice chip tricks to play poker is like telling someone who's training for a marathon that they need to practice by setting up a card table with lots of cups of water

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Did you read the post you quoted? Also, flawed analogy. Chips are handled in every single hand you play. It's the major tool of the game, and your hands are where many tells originate. I don't think it's a bad idea at all to get comfortable handling chips, and a good way to do that is home is to practice chip tricks. It's not that one needs tricks to play, it's that tricks are a convenient way to become comfortable with the medium. Makes sense to me.