Pen grips1/7/2024 ![]() You may have seen children who press so hard on the paper that the pencil tip breaks or smudges and mistakes don’t fully erase. You might also have to sand your blade a bunch to get it to a position where it is comfortable to hold for extended periods.Today, I wanted to share a tip for addressing handwriting pressure…using a pen grip! Pencil pressure when writing is something that comes up a lot. I imagine it takes a while to build up resistance to use the v-grip regularly. The skin in between your index and middle finger gets very sore after only a short while. Although it may seem odd, I recommend using your non-playing hand to help change your grip - you should have enough time to do it.Īnd the final gripe is just how uncomfortable the bat is to hold. ![]() Your best bet is to transition to regular shakehand for smashes. Bar the extreme backhand shakehand grip, smashing feels great for all the grips, but not with this one. ![]() The handle also gets in the way for backhand flicks, so I ended up placing it below my wrist for flicking on that side.Īnother issue is that smashing is very weak. Wrist mobility is actually really poor here - that’s the price you pay for improved wrist mobility for topspin strokes. This begins with pushing which feels awkward. Understandably this grip has quite a lot of issues which explains why you never see it. But I do think it could be very effective at a club level. Now do I think this could work well at the top level? Certainly not. The altered angle makes wrist mobility much easier.Īs such, I hypothesize that you can produce tonnes of topspin with a much shorter stroke length because you can rely on the wrist. But with the v-grip, your wrist rotation shifts. This is partly because of the orientation of the wrist. The loop is probably the shot that comes to mind - it has a long stroke length and limited wrist movement. Think about the nature of heavy topspin shots in today’s game. What excites me about this grip is the promise for short spinny topspin strokes. And then for all topspin strokes on either flank, you use the opposing rubber. There’s very minimal footage of the grip online, but as best I can tell, you use one side of the rubber for pushes on the forehand and backhand side. The thing I find so fascinating about the v-grip is how fundamentally different it is from all of the other grips. ![]() However, the feeling and mobility of the shakehand grip is still very good so I don’t consider it a weakness. The penhold grip has better feeling than the shakehand grip and increased mobility. So in all likelihood, you’ll rarely face a player who doesn’t have an inherent weakness in the crossover as these are the two most popular grips.Īnother area you could make a case for weakness is the reduced feeling and spin. That being said, this weakness is also shared by the new version of the Chinese penhold grip known as the reverse penhold backhand, or RPB for short. Therefore you need to decide early whether to go backhand or forehand so that you can move to get your feet in the right place. ![]() You don’t have a lot of time to react to quick balls that land in this vicinity. For many people, balls that land here are hard to deal with. This is the point in line with your shoulder where you have to decide whether to play a forehand or backhand shot. In my opinion, there is only really one weak area when it comes to the shakehand grip and that is the crossover. ![]()
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