The monarch grip is a descendant of decades of experience of hanging on for dear life and an 18 month design development process. Over those 18 months we've surveyed over 1,000 people for their grip preferences and pet hates, tested countless grips and even set up our own internal 3d printing and casting workshop to rapidly test and refine the finest details through hundreds of hours of testing - down to the very last 0.25mm - seriously! The result is a grip design with an offset and tapered core, tapered grip profile, soft 20a compound, slim 8mm clamp (for max grip area), unique zigzag pressure relief thumb pad, high grip finger bars (cut inwards not outwards - this is important!), two texture options and two thickness options. Phew!