So for double escape wrist technique you don’t want to deliberately try to do anything semicircular, and you shouldn’t feel anything overtly semicircular when you do it. Every student who reports this also shows speed limiting and stringhopping. It should just feel like your hand is going back and forth, fast and easy, no different compared to any other type of phrase you might play. If that’s the case then why can’t most people do this? This is one of those “hiding in plain sight” kind of thing

Improve Your Flatpicking Technique with These Mother Maybelle Carter-Inspired Exercises