After over twenty years of playing, i finaly changed my pickgrip, and it feels so much better. I used to play with an extended index finger grip, this way i always had sore right hand fingers, and upper right arm after some intense playing. Never thought of another way of holding it!
I changed to curled index finger, thumb after watching a lot of experienced players.
I can play a lot more relaxed this way.
Still have to get used to it.
You’re definiutely not stupid! Nobody told us how these things work back in the day. It was all, “everybody picks different”. Which basically meant that whatever you were doing, it was sacrosanct and you should never change it because it’s your secret sauce. Changing grips is a great way to learn what a different setup feels like, and break out of ruts.
The key concept here is that the grip you use influences your arm position, and your arm position influences your motion. So changing your grip isn’t really changing just your grip — it’s probably causing you to use a different motion, and you may be better at that motion than the one you were using.
Thank you Troy, still can’t downslant yet, but with this new motion, i think there are more options to work with.
If you are only recently feeling stupid congrats. Lol
I think I need to experiment as well.
I’m reaching a point where 2wps is very slowly improving. In some situations it’s good like descending 6s on 3nps.
But traveling across all 6 @ 3nps is still weak.
Probably time to investigate the motions portion of the site for me.
I foolishly thought that because I now understood the basic mechanics that I was gonna become savage almost instantly.
Turns out I still have to put in the work
+1 here, you’re not alone. Keep going 
And if you did know all the mechanics, you certainly didn’t get that knowledge from us! Because we didn’t have it.
We still don’t, but we know a lot more now than we did even a couple years ago. Specifically as you say in the area of the actual joint motions themselves, which makes a big difference. We sent a lot of people on a wild goose chase “looking for the slant” and not telling them how to actually get it. What resulted was a lot of players fiddling around with their pick grip but not actually making the picking motions they thought they were making.
The stuff we’ve been putting up in the past couple months is by far the most specific instruction that we and probably anybody else has created for how to actually do wrist motions. The world out there is much more complex than just the wrist, but there’s always some amount of wrist of course. But the wrist is one of the more complicated pieces of that world, and it is involved in almost everyone’s technique to some extent.
TLDR if things are not clicking for you, check out the new wrist stuff and maybe (hopefully) that will help.
It is by watching the new stuff i’ve decided to try out different grips, it is like a new world is about to be explored for me!
There is still a lot of work to do, but i like that.
Right on. Especially when you’re trying to learn new physical things, mixing up a salad of variety is a good way to speed up that process. If you repeat the same stuff the same way all the time, there’s not much opportunity to find what’s causing the issue.