Shakehand or Penhold???

Hi,

I have been playing penhold for a while, even though i am using a premade dunlop 'spin' racket which has a shakehand grip, and i am lrearning RPB and i really like it. However at my club, everyone is telling me to switch to shakehand ( the better players are), as I always lose to them and they try to tell me how to play with their grips (shakehand).

So I was wondering, would getting a proper penhold racket help? Or should I just make the switch, as they tyell me that I will be able to p[lay better if I change???

yeah i agree. change now since its still early.

personally, i think all pen-hold players that arent either chinese, japanese, or korean are "wannabes". in my opinion, shakehand is the standard grip. chinese (&co.) uses this pen grip, and since they make so much progress in the world other ppl do this "OMG I WANNA DO THAT TOO!!!" and also does the pen grip. XD might be sounding stupid.

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Asaomi wrote: personally, i think all pen-hold players that arent either chinese, japanese, or korean are "wannabes". in my opinion, shakehand is the standard grip. chinese (&co.) uses this pen grip, and since they make so much progress in the world other ppl do this "OMG I WANNA DO THAT TOO!!!" and also does the pen grip.     SHAKEHAND

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Zoran Kalinic comes to mind.

wawaicetea123 wrote: Asaomi wrote: personally, i think all pen-hold players that arent either chinese, japanese, or korean are "wannabes". in my opinion, shakehand is the standard grip. chinese (&co.) uses this pen grip, and since they make so much progress in the world other ppl do this "OMG I WANNA DO THAT TOO!!!" and also does the pen grip. � � SHAKEHAND � i would say it is not common for other decents to use pengrip. but there has been some good euro penhold loopers and i am a penholder and my backround is from norway. i didnt start playing penhold becouse i thought the chinese were so good and wanted to play like them. penhold is diffrent and thats what i like. dont insult me and other white penholders becouse we play a diffrent grip.

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wawaicetea123 wrote: Asaomi wrote: personally, i think all pen-hold players that arent either chinese, japanese, or korean are "wannabes". in my opinion, shakehand is the standard grip. chinese (&co.) uses this pen grip, and since they make so much progress in the world other ppl do this "OMG I WANNA DO THAT TOO!!!" and also does the pen grip.     SHAKEHAND   i would say it is not common for other decents to use pengrip. but there has been some good euro penhold loopers and i am a penholder and my backround is from norway. i didnt start playing penhold becouse i thought the chinese were so good and wanted to play like them. penhold is diffrent and thats what i like. dont insult me and other white penholders becouse we play a diffrent grip.

Hi,

how old r u now?

The funny thing is that I first took blade in my hands at 17. I tried playing shakehand, and my FH was awkward but playable though. But the BH... that was horrible. I didn`t have any ball feeling from BH, I often couldn`t get the paddle to touch the ball )))

And one of the older guys at university said: "Why don`t you try and hold it the way those Asians do?" It worked. It felt very natural for me. I still don`t know why, maybe because I got my right arm broken twice (wrist at 3 y.o and elbow at 5)

Another thing, more sad than funny. I started playing at a local yard with tables and though I didn`t play regularly, I established myself wrong FH drive movement (with my shoulder moving too high). So the serious training started last summer. A guy came to our yard, serving spinny serves and I just had no idea what to do with them. So I decided to get myself a coach and I was happy with his understanding reaction when I said I wouldn`t change my grip. A great amount of time was spent to break the old habit and to establish correct FH movement.

And, finally. I still have no ability to play with the second side of paddle. I gave up trying to learn RPB and the light setup seems to be more comfortable for me, especially with BH blocking and driving

I'm moving back to China on Feb 1, 2009. I'm sure I'll find coaches there. :-). George, if you don't have any luck, come visit me and I'll hook you up.

drywater wrote: lol ya foreal it is wierd seeing crackers play penhold. its not natural and you seem like a poser..

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