[Travis Covington]

We use an on/off switch on the handle of the joystick. We cut a square hole in the grip portion (where your palm would normally go) so our driver never has to remove his hand from the prefered position he holds it at (which is towards the base of the joystick, resting his palm on the base at times). The reason we (I) prefer the on/off switch is that you can always look down and know what gear you are in. We had thought about using the trigger or a momentary button, but we could never be sure what gear we were in. Granted, you should know... unfortunately, however, in the heat of competition you never really can be sure of anything.