Thank you so much for these awesome videos! They help me a lot! What I noticed with the French Grip is that your thumb position is further ahead than your index finger position underneath. So you are not "holding" the stick with your thumb and index finger, you rather use your thumb as the only fulcrum point and the index finger "helps out" the other fingers to move the stick right? That's an amazing detail I need to implement in my technique. Because when I want to go faster, I tend to "squeeze" the stick between my thumb and index finger and my middle- and ring finger are the ones that are doing all the work and also my thumb starts to hurt after 8 bars... Thank you again and keep it up!