Braking: How many fingers?

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How many fingers do you use to brake?

In my old gloves, I always used all four, mostly because independent finger movement in thick gloves was a bit difficult. Now I'm wearing handroids, I find that I switch between using two or three, and sometimes one on occasion.

Is there a consensus on the proper technique?

 

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Interesting answers.

I ask entirely because I've noticed I've moved to 2 fingers, but I suspect that with only two fingers I'm not getting maximum force out of the brakes, especially since those two fingers are nowhere near the end of the lever.

Is one of the main points of shortened levers (Pazzo etc.) to allow you to get decent leverage off only a few fingers?

 

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I wonder how people's answers correlate to having shorty levers?

Maybe I should do another thread.....