Pistol vs French grip: the fencer really has to be very patient to develop the strength necessary for fencing with a french grip - patient for results that is. Many new fencers want to win right away, which is why they go into pistol, then with pistol you can do a lot of stuff, you can flilck over your shoulder - behind you, and use it quick to get the guy when he's passing, if you use the french grip exclusively, then you have a totally different way of fencing, it's great, viva, I like both. The flick must be here to stay unless directors can see that the fencer who is flicking has no control over his actions and penalizes him/her. but the problem is a salle wants a 'winner' if you have a fencer who wants to fence to win [like me - but can time frame it to three years] then you'll see a lot of slow development, but well executed fencing and then bang a result. But if the salle wants results quickly to get to nationals, and there's nothing wrong with that either, fencing is after all competition, then you'll have different fencing. So it boil down to the same thing, how to have a winning team, winning fencing with good consistent result, with reduced injuries and all that good stuff.
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