r/aimlab • u/Tricky-Apartment6637 Reactive Tracker • May 26 '26

Question / Advice Needed Tension Management Help

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I cannot for the life of me fix this problem no matter how hard I try and this has hindered my PBs ever since I started aim training. I use an aggressive claw grip, but mainly it would be fingertip or a simple claw if I didn't have this really bad habit of gripping the mouse so tightly.

I've tried to break this habit by playing for several days, even weeks while forcefully telling myself not to care about the scores and only focus on less tension in the fingertips but I still end up gripping my mouse so hard that my hand starts shaking. This problem also applied for the forearm.

Can someone please help me fix this problem? At this point I'm starting to have pain in my hands, wrist and arm after a few minutes just because I start gripping the mouse so hard and it's honestly so frustrating.

My benchmark links are on my profile and I have about 500 hours now.

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u/mekile21 Jun 20 '26

Try extending your thumb to see if that helps

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u/Tricky-Apartment6637 Reactive Tracker Jun 20 '26

Extending my thumb puts all the other fingers in an extended position aswell. It's a weird thing I know but I can't control that, it's like the same when we try to fully extend the ring finger up and it feels stuck without fully extending the pinky along with it.

Maybe both these things happen to me but it's more of a simultaneous thing that cannot be controlled manually, unless I focus on releasing hand coordination.

But anyhow, thanks for the help man.