"bdubya" wrote in message

The advantage I find is that if you let go of the pole in a fall, then
it's dangling harmlessly from your wrist, leaving your hand completely
free. Whereas if you do the instinctive thing (reach horizontally
_through_ the loop so that you only grip the pole, rather than reach
UP through the loop and then grip both the pole and the strap), then
when you let go, the pole hangs from the strap which is nestled in the
webbing of your thumb, turning the pole into a very well-braced lever,
admirably suited for tweaking your thumb or wrist


Yep , that's pretty much the idea I got from it . But it's a little bit of a
nuisance to do and it makes the grip feel a little weird because your
holding the handle plus the double thickness of the strap and it feels like
your not getting as tight a grip . But then again a broken thumb can be a
nuisance too :-) .