How do you realize if your best play is shakehand or penholder?

Go for it. You can always switch back if something causes you to change your mind.


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Here in my club, begineers are often encouraged to try a bit both shakehand and penhold grip on the firts sessions to see what is more natural to them, so they chan choose what feels better. Here in Brazil there is a high number of people that prefer to play penhold (chinese or japanese penhold) when compared to other countries based on some videos/comments I saw, but shakehand is still the majority.

I played a bit with RPB (only 1 month), so I will give my 2 cents here from a begineer's point of view:

Advantages:
- easier to spin the ball and easier to attack in general
- penhold grip gives more freedom to wrist

Disadvantages:
- I felt pain on my fingers/wrist after every session, racket felt too heavy to play with rubbers on both sides (maybe it is just a matter of getting used to it, if I kept playing RBP for some more months maybe I could feel less/no pain after some months, I don't know...)
- I personally found more difficult to block. Racket angle to block was akward / non natural to me.

The best advice is what Carl said. If you want to try, then go for it!
I don't play RPB anymore, but the time I tried to play was without a doubt very fun and exciting! Learning new things about TT helped me to keep high my interest on TT and to keep training!

Semi out of topic but anyways: j-pen is the coolest skill on the planet. I would kill to be able to play j-pen at a decent level.

I don't know about pen, but my son discovered that he can play with his left hand during a session, he was blocking me and had to scratch his nose and ears from time to time, taking the bat with his left hand.

dominus7 said:

Hi buddies, may be it sound foolish but, I've been playing as shakehand and yesterday I tried to play as penholder and I was surprisingly more consistent with the rpb than with my bh as shakehand, I can place more exactly, so I am thinking because when I was newbie I just took the blade as shakehand, so fee free to express your opinion, advantage, disadvantages about them including the injuries tendencies. Thanks.

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I hope you are at the beginner's level, cause in another case it that should be a very odd feeling...