One-finger braking was one of the first things we were taught at the Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic. The drill wasn't just that we use one finger while braking, but that we keep that one finger resting lightly on the brakes at all times. DH laughed at me a bit on our recent three-day mountain bike tour because he said he never saw me without one finger on my brake levers during the course of about 21 hours of riding.