Hello from France

[violoniste18]

hello,

I am a french violin teacher passionate about table tennis and since 2 years about penhold style.

In France, the penhold style is very few used and i am interessed to speak with penholders players.

Please excuse my english, i am an self-taugh person with this langage ...

here I am with a video :

I enjoy my self with discussions about penhold style, and if you want to correct my english, don't hesitate !!

 

[violoniste18]

I just read some threads about penhold, it's very interesting for a new penhold player like me, thanks for all penhold players on this forum !

 

[SpinQuark]

Hey, welcome to TTD !

I can't say anything about pen hold, except I enjoy playing a couple of pen hold players during some of my practice sessions.

I played when in France last summer...
http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?8515-Table-Tennis-in-Bordeaux

Your English is excellent, hope you enjoy TTD.

 

[SpinQuark]

Table Tennis loving violin player, this should hit the spot...

 

[violoniste18]

thank you for this video ! it is original

I confess that my favorite style is jazz swing "Stéphane grappelli" then the modern style is not my cup of tea as we say in France !

but it is true that here this style with table tennis, it's very good!

I come here because by the biggest french table tennis forum, we are only 2 regulars penhold players ... !

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Hello and welcome to the world of penholds

Firstly, judging from your video, you are doing a great work in learning the style!
Secondly RPB is the most un-natural table tennis shot in the book, and you are doing it quite well.

I am a Cpen player, but also able to play shakehand and/or cpen/shakehand chopper - for the sake of training other players.

Just a word of advice on the RPB part - your elbow is too high, don't lift your elbow so much, but rather lift your fore arm more and keep your elbow at a similar height to when you just contact the ball.

Otherwise, you are generating very good power in both your FH and BH shot.
I think next thing you can try and do is generate more spin (which may loose some power, but to get a good 50-50 of spin/power will be key, and you can decide when to do 80 power - 20 spin or 80 spin - 20 power etc)

Good luck

 

[Olio]

Hello Violoniste18

Tu trouveras aussi une communaute de PP assez importante sur le forum mytt.net

Bienvenue chez les rosbifs en tout cas.

 

[violoniste18]

Thanks Tony, I see so that may elbow is too high, I will try to improve it. You are table tennis coach ? in New Zeland ? it's okay ?

I just play 1 week ago at a big club in my town with a serious training, to try to continue to improve. Despite my 55 years and 20 years of table tennis, I 'm very motivated , especially since I played in Penhold style !

Thanks too Olio, i will go also in the other forum, I want also improve my english and two forum, it is better that one !