This user has no status.
This user has no status.
Member
Dang qiu is the first european born European champion so that's a pretty cool win for penhold play and one of the greatest young talents in felix lebrun is a penholder too.
Do you think those two guys will revive the penhold play in china a bit? Not saying they will go back to ph now but I'm sure they would hate it if a non chinese won a world title with the "chinese grip".
What's also interesting is that dang and felix don't use the black side at all for any backhand balls, not just loop but also block and even pushes are played with the red side.
Should modern Penholders even learn tpb or just play every ball to the backhand side with the red side? Does learning TBP impair learning RPB? Some modern PH players took quite long to have a good RBP but lebrun had a great backhand since he was 12 or so so maybe just learning RPB accelerates the learning?
In my personal opinion TPB is too hard to master haha. I found it difficult to block correctly and have the correct game plan for it.
My coach suggested that perhaps having both tpb and rpb is a good idea, but as of right now my focus is getting my RPB consistent with looping as well as power looping.
I think the reason why the younger players including myself can adapt to rpb is that bh loop a-la-shakehand style is everywhere! There's not a lot of pros anymore that favor tpb (unless traditional) over rpb. But also since shakehand is so prevalent and they naturally have a bh loop, I feel like it's a bit of monkey see, monkey do; Penholders see fzd ripping backhands and they also want to copy it.