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Originally Posted by JonPR
There are good practical reasons why thumb wrap is banned in classical guitar!
Naturally, none of this applies to steel-string guitar held on the right leg, or to certain non-classical fret hand techniques which actively require the thumb over, at least to mute the 6th string.
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I agree with all of this, but it's also physically difficult to perform the kind of wrist contortion it'd take to thumb wrap with an elevated headstock, even on a steel-string-guitar, as opposed to the left hand position in the video the OP posted.
I asked because (especially after I saw the classical at the top of the OP's signature), I thought maybe guitar position was why he felt like he needs surgical thumb extensions. If he IS holding the guitar in a neck-up position, adopting a lowered headstock position might be an easier solution.
