How do you grip your blade?

[schrodingerskoalabear]

Hello everyone!

I always thought my basement/rec-room playing days luckily gave me a decent technique.

Essentially, my neutral grip is: Finger on gripping on the FH with my thumb resting on the blade. It does not really touch the rubber. This is also my FH grip

When I have to hit BH, I transition during the rally to: placing my thumb further up on the rubber with the finger staying where it is on the FH side



This grip feels very comfortable (because it is a habit!), I do feel like I end up holding the racket too tightly sometimes with my lower three fingers. I have also seen in my videos that during my FH loop, my racket flops at bit and is unstable near the end of the swing. The FH-BH transition I am fairly okay with but the BH-FH transition does take me a bit more time.

Now I recently saw these videos of orthodox grips where the thumb is on the rubber:

And then this "pinch grip":

Watching this does make me question my own grip given the problems I mentioned above. Trying pinch grip with shadow training does feel more loose and comfortable but that is under no pressure obviously.

Two questions:

1. I know grips can be very personalized but I wanted to see if there was any feedback for my grip from all you fine folks?
2. Also, to open this up, would love to see/hear how people hold their own blades.

 

[TensorBackhand]

I grip with my thumb higher on the rubber and my index finger higher on the rubber. I feel it gives more spin and control and responsiveness

 

[Lazer]

Same as TB and I stopped switching grip between FH and BH, takes too much time…

Cheers
L-zr

 

[Jslick89]

i have a mostly neutral grip. However, from the pictures you are showing, you are not giving the full idea of your grip. I can see where fingers and thumb and how high on the paddle your grip is, but i'm not seeing where the the EQ point is between your thumb and index finger (IE, is it closer to your thumb, or closer to the knuckle of your index finger...or somewhere in the middle?). My preferred grip is to keep it as neutral as possible. if i held my hand out in front and pointed my paddle forward....the whole paddle would line up exactly with my forearm.

However, if i'm doing an inside out forehand, my grip will adjust a little bit to where the paddle is more on my thumb giving me a better paddle angle. i'll try and take some pictures for you later tonight but i have to run for now.

 

[Robin0910]

I switch between Fh and Bh grip just like in the second video. I feel like I can generate more spin if I don’t touch the rubber with my thumb when doing forehand

 

[igorponger]

Give it a try. Take care to sand off the edge of blade where the middle-finger is placed. .
This grip works wonders indeed, your wrist gets swingy and the ball gets spinny like hell.