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and i hope i can find some kind of a sticker or glue or whatever that i can stick my hand on the handle and have the correct holding the racket, because all people commented about my wrong wrong holding the racket, i start with correct holding as they said or as i should use it, once i start playing or training or practicing it is automatically get to wrong holding position,
I have changed my grip a bunch of times. When I did it, I had two ways of getting used to the switch. Hitting with a human while trying to change your grip is pretty frustrating.
The first method is, you bounce a ball low on the table and then you loop trying to keep the new grip. And you keep doing this till your body and arm know the position and the new grip. You need a large bucket of balls and you grab a large handful with your left hand and feed them to yourself to loop. Every time you see your hand go to a different grip, you move it back to the one you are trying to change to.
The second method is similar but you do it with a table tennis robot. You use the robot and every time you notice the grip going back to the one you don't want to use you switch it. Once your body feels the right angles for contact it starts becoming easier.
But old habits are hard to change.
i am scared[or worried] that i can't change that habit easily or quickly or soon enough...it is like i must first correct my holding before i start training or having coaching.
Yep. That is hard to change without something like what I described. But if it helps your thinking: I changed grips 4 times two years ago. Each grip change took me an hour on a table alone with a bucket of balls to get used to.
One was a backhand grip and I was using it for both sides so it was similar to ZJK's grip.
The second was a grip where I switched grips for forehand and backhand and was using a FH grip for forehand and a BH grip for backhand.
The third was a grip where I was half way between FH and BH grips so that I wouldn't have to switch grips.
The one I am using now, I got from a Chinese woman coach. It is hard to describe. I am using my index finger and thumb to hold the blade face and I am not really holding the handle. My fingers are around it but really relaxed. What happens is, as I close my wrist and forearm for a backhand the racket just ends up in what amounts to a backhand grip and when I open my wrist and rotate my forearm down for a forehand the racket ends up in what amounts to a forehand grip even though I am not changing the grip.
What is the point of all this? If you do the work and practice alone on a table with a bucket of balls, you can change it. But it is much harder to change while hitting with another person. And when you are working alone you have to be really disciplined about keeping the grip the way you want to change it.
Better if you could post photos of those grips so i can have btr idea about what you are talking about, please if you wouldn't mind!
Nope. They are not something you could see from just photos with the switching grips. And I not going to film video of old grips I no longer use.
But you shouldn't worry about the grips I tried. You should worry about the grip you are being told to learn. If you had 4 other grips to learn in addition to the one you are trying to learn, then you would start asking everyone which one is best, try and learn them all and 20 more in addition to that like you are doing with equipment, and you would never learn any of them and just make yourself more confused. Seeing more grips won't help you: it will hinder you.
LEARN THE ONE YOUR COACH IS TRYING TO TEACH YOU!!!!
Then the question is, what is the meaning of grip?
Hey Tareq, I was on YouTube and this video happened to come up which shows exactly the grip I switched to. I still say you should learn what your coach is trying to teach you but here is a video that shows a grip that this guy is switching from and the new grip he is using.
For anyone else, feel free to jump in and add comments about how you hold the racket or different grips you have seen used.
I have felt there is a lot of sense in holding the racket with the index and middle finger against the blade face and leaving the other three fingers relaxed. With that grip, as I switch my wrist for FH or BH, my grip switches as well so that functionally I have a FH grip for FH and a BH grip for BH without actually physically switching my grip. It changes because of the angle of my wrist, but not because I rotated the racket to a different position.