Parker; I know what you mean, it took me alot of time to become able to climb; use calls etc with this release on. You basically have to become acustomed to being a 4 fingered person with this release, that index finger is useless for anything pretty much except for touching the release trigger.I found that with practice you can do anything with it on, and the benifets of the release far out weighed the drawbacks of the release for me.