It appears I've been ripping from my middle finger more than my index finger or perhaps it was slipping off the index onto the middle... I don't know...but now that I AM fully ripping off my index finger (due to tighter grip at the rip) the past couple of weeks I actually developed a cut (split?) on my index finger pad and wow...that hurts like hell. It's taking a long time to heal because it's just very hard to stop throwing. I've been using tape and it works well. It's finally almost healed and I was just wondering since I've read some peeps rip off the middle finger...which is the best finger to rip from? Thx.