Looking for advice on my abnormal BH grip

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TLDR: I have a “second” BH grip that is theoretically wrong, but it feels solid and when I’ve tried it I’ve comfortably beaten players who usually always beat me (2000 NCTTA). Convince me to stay with my weird grip (or adjust it) or use a traditional grip.

Pertinent Details: I have an alternative very choked up BH grip where I get a callus on my palm near my middle finger if I use it for a few sessions. I generate power from levering with the bottom three fingers of my hand in addition to my thumb and forefinger.
This lets me generate a short, repeatable stroke that allows me to have a consistent close-to-the-table bh topspin. This in games makes me the first to attack in points, and it feels easier to execute as a gameplan.

I really want advice to make me switch to a “better” grip, but whenever I try to switch to a looser grip, I don’t actually produce consistent or higher quality BH shots bc I think I have bad bh technique and bh footwork. I am a FH dominant player, so I’m considering using this scuffed BH grip as a quick pressure tool and accepting the limited variation and maximum power that the “suboptimal” grip provides.
 
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You got the right idea of using your fingers as lever arms to power the BH. However you can use this concept without choking the grip which is usually not a good idea.

Even on FH you can benefit from this concept of using the fingers.

So my way for BH is: thumb pressing slightly on the right side of the FH rubber, index finger pressing on the tip on the BH rubber, then bottom 3 fingers extend alongside supination of the forearm, all acting together to turn the bat clockwise. It is a bit like doing a finger snap.

For FH it is: 2nd joint of index finger (1st joint being the joint connecting finger to palm) pressing on the FH rubber, thumb as pivot point and tips of bottom 3 fingers all squeeze (contract) alongside pronation of the forearm, all acting together to turn the bat anticlockwise.
 
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You generate spin in the ball by how fast you rotate the bat. The faster you rotate it the more spin you get. So the more mechanisms/muscles that you engage to rotate it the better. Choking the grip makes your fingers less relaxed before the contact so it reduces the capacity of the fingers to amplify the power.
 
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