anchoring, floating and rsi - help needed!

[ten left thumbs]

i have been working through leavitt vol 1, and i'm in a bit of a quandry re anchoring. i know this subkect is discussed here loads, so sorry for repetition.

here is how i played a few weeks ago, this felt quite natural for me:
Pretty Pickin pt 1 - YouTube

as you can see, i kept ring and pinkie of rh lightly against scratchplate. not sure if this counts as anchoring. and i didn't worry about it. until, that is, i came across endurance etude (p48), and then the problem was that my fingers would mute top e string, which was supposed to be ringing.

no problem, i thought, time to float. so i curled my rh fingers up, and floated. well, that's quite disorienting to hit the right strings, so i just lightly hovered the heel of my hand around the bridge (not always touching, perhaps a bit like palm muting).

and I spent a couple days in this 'anchor vs float'? quandry.

then i suddenly got rsi, mostly i feel in r thumb, and strongly associated with up strokes. i have a strong suspicion that it has been caused by up strokes in a 'hand-bent back' position (heel contacting bridge).

so i suppose the upshot is that once i recover, i need my 'floating' to 'fly' rather than to 'hover'? or could i continue resting my fingers for orientation, just trying to keep tham away from the e string (small hands, though)?

has anyone else had the same problem - from this or from palm muting?

i do have history of rsi, though tjhis time it feels different from before.

apologies for long post! tia for responses.

[Niihau123]

Hang in there. Just need fingers to get stronger.

[ten left thumbs]

Hi Niihau, I had completely forgotten about this thread.

Well, the update is no recurrence of the injury. I exercise with baoding balls for hand strength. I probably use a combination of floating and resting pinkie on scratchplate, I mean it has to go somewhere!