Is your mouse grip holding you back?

How you should hold your mouse is something I see discussed a lot online, with countless people claiming to have found the objective answer to the question by looking at the changes in aim each grip causes. So, how can mouse grip not matter if the one you use does have an objective impact on how you aim?

I hope this vid is helpful to anyone who's struggled with overthinking mouse grip, copying pro player's grips is something I did for ages to try and find what was the best for aim. It's not strictly harmful to try stuff out but trying to force my hand into positions that weren't comfortable was super bad for my wrist health in the long run and I was much better off both mechanically and health wise just letting my hand rest how it wants to naturally. I hope this vid saves someone from going through the hand injury I went through.

If you are having hand pains, I recommend checking out ‪@1HP‬ They make great resources and wrist exercises that address issues caused by gaming and they've helped a lot for me and others I know :D

Also, no hate to any of the youtubers shown in those panning shots of the youtube search I used. The videos chosen were just what showed up on the search results and I get why ppl use titles like that, it gets views, I just think it's important to address these misconceptions when they pop up.

Also also, I am SO sorry if this vid looks bad, I was stuck in a loop of rendering and crashing for like 8 hours and ended up having to export the vid in 9 parts and stitch them all together which is why there might be more visual bugs and weird artifacting than usual, sry abt that but I didn't want to spend any longer sitting there trying to get vegas to work 😭

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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Grip styles
1:27 - Is fingertip the best grip?
2:27 - The tradeoffs of claw grip
3:37 - How can mouse grip not matter?
4:35 - How mouse impacts grip choice
5:15 - The importance of comfort
6:18 - Other times you should change grip
7:04 - Conclusion

Music
Arrival - dryhope
Obscurity - Chris Mazuera
somewhere else - dryhope

Peripherals/Settings
Mouse: OP1 8k
Mousepad: Artisan Zero Soft/Artisan Shidenkai xSoft
Keyboard: Wooting 60HE Modded
Headset: AKG 702
Microphone: Rode Procaster
Sensitivity: About 37cm but I change often
Resolution: 1920x1080 in everything but cs, 1440x1080 for cs