critique my grip (pictures)

Have you considered taking up full-contact chess?  Maybe tsunami surfing?  Because that grip ainagonna work for table tennis.

Hmm... Without the thumb pressing the FH side, it's hard to have consistent BH with your grip. I guess you might make it work by grabbing the handle tight... I wouldn't worry about the index finger, because your grip is so shallow it won't stick into the hitting sweet spot.

Your fh must suck with this grip...i mean,you entire game must suck with this,try to slowly adapt it and you see you well be a lot better.

you are close to using a V grip a-la seemiller...

It is not that horrible.  The thumb stabilizes the paddle nicely, almost as if I had a second thumb and I were pinching that area of the paddle with both thumbs.

I have only been playing for a little over a year, and I have been progressing nicely so far without hitting any plateaus.   With some level of competence, I can do everything other than chopping.

My main training partner had switched to hard bat for a while, hitting through spin and blocking, and last week he switched back to inverted and is not playing his best, so this would be a good time for me to change my grip if I decide to.  

I can tell already your BH is your weak point.

I don't think you need to ask us. I think you need to find a qualified coach who can SHOW you why this grip is going to limit you and may already be limiting you. It is your game, but I have never seen anyone using this grip and for me I can say that I would not be able to have a stable enough feeling to be able to smash and loop drive well, also I feel I would not be able to have the proper angle for stroke development down the line.

Just go to a good coach and get some help.

chocolate wrote: It is not that horrible.  The thumb stabilizes the paddle nicely, almost as if I had a second thumb and I were pinching that area of the paddle with both thumbs. I have only been playing for a little over a year, and I have been progressing nicely so far without hitting any plateaus.   With some level of competence, I can do everything other than chopping. My main training partner had switched to hard bat for a while, hitting through spin and blocking, and last week he switched back to inverted and is not playing his best, so this would be a good time for me to change my grip if I decide to.

1.  It is that horrible.

2.  You won't / can't progress because you can't make / control better shots.

Just go to a good table tennis coach and get some real help.

MildSeven wrote: You should switch to either the standard shakehand or seemiller grip. If you play inverted rubbers, I would suggest shakehand. Your existing grip is somewhere between the two.

I am convinced.  I will change to the standard grip. 

Here is a word of encouragement about changing grips from my own experience.  I used a close to normal grip but with a little bit wrong.  When I started playing more seriously at a club I was advised to change to a standard grip.  At first it felt extremely awkward and I struggled to even make contact and keep the ball on the table.  I felt like I should ignore the advice and keep playing like I was.  But I stuck with it and my game suffered terribly for the next few times playing, but as soon as I started to get comfortable with it my game drastically improved and I was able to make much better shots and have much greater consistency than I ever could with the wrong grip.  It also allowed me to learn how to do all the strokes properly since their teaching assumes a proper grip.

chocolate wrote: http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/188/dsc00133ft.jpg http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4235/dsc00134.jpg � Is this grip ok?� Most people do not put the thumb where I do.� � You can see from stain on the backhand rubber that that finger moves around a�bit, occasionally I hit finger instead of rubber. � I tried� holding my Clipper (black rubbers each side ) with my thumb down and it felt wrong and opened the angle of my bat. � I am trying to decide if this grip is worth correcting.� I would rather keep it as it would probably take at least a few weeks to adapt and this grip feels most natural to me.

how can you play with such that grip? look at the picture above.. it is ok..

must    change     grip

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nicefrog wrote: I can't stand people that show up with demented grips like that. I refuse to tech them anything if they wont fix it.

How about just offering the simple advice "if you keep that grip, you're consistency and development will suffer". And leaving it at that?

I kind of feel like a hypocrite, because I'm actually in frog's boat; one person who wants to drill with me simply *will not* give up his malfunctioning grip (grips at base of handle with one finger along spine of handle). And I make excuses not to drill with him, because the inconsistency his wrist action causes is excrutiating to deal with. He can't hit the same spin or placement twice because there are simply too many moving parts.