Actually, I'm glad you asked because I misspoke -- the lanyard wraps around the outside of my hand and around the thumb, not around the inside. Here are some pictures (although I noticed my grip is a bit higher up on the handle than would be the case during normal use because my grip was loose -- I also usually wear a pair of thin leather gloves because programmer hands blister easy):







If the weight of the khuk wants to pull out, the lanyard helps to anchor it to the bottom of the hand -- so long as the lanyard doesn't break or you don't remove it from your thumb, that knife isn't going anywhere. One last thing (although it doesn't really matter), I'm a right-hander but holding the knife in my left because my camera is nearly impossible to operate single-left-handed.