In the dynamic tripod grip, the thumb and forefinger act like pincers, gripping the barrel of the pencil near its tip. The third finger acts like a support, bracing the forefinger as it moves.

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Berninger and Beverly J. Wolf’s Teaching Students With Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (2009), students should “use a tripod grip in which the pencil rests on the first joint of the middle finger with ...

With each use he would revert to the fist grip but would correct himself as if the stylus war more comfortable in the tripod position ... still practicing a proper pencil grip.