question on changing grip BLX 6.1 tour

[borgpro]

The grip of my BLX six-one tour (size 1/2) feels just a tad too large, with an overgrip, compared to my old PS 85 (with a new -and the same- wilson leather grip and an overgrip). How could I make the grip just a tiny little smaller, without changing weight, and with still adding the (tourna) overgrip? I was thinking of changing the full leather grip to a wilson pro-hybrid grip (half leather) assuming that it will be a tad softer and therefore just a little smaller.

Any advice is very welcome, I hesitate just removing the leather on the new racket!
-should a change to the pro-hybrid grip?
-should I wait and will the leathre grip shrink a tad with time?
-are there overgrips even smaller that the tourna grip?
-is the thinnest leather grip from TW perhaps thinner than the wilson leathre grip?

Thanks for any input!

 

[tata]

I had a similar problem when i got my ex03graphite. Grip felt marginally big and bulkier than i would have liked (4 5/8 + super grap overgrip). It felt comfortable and stable in the hand but just seems harder to get some wrist action and whip on the ball. My remedy was going to the babolat vs original overgrip - its super thin!

If that didnt work for me THEN i was going to take off the leather grip and replace with something else.

 

[Zeb]

I felt the same too so swapped out the leather for the pro hybrid grip and put on a babolat thin overgrip and this has done the trick of reducing the size a tad.

 

[trilix]

The pro hybrid grip is 1,60mm so it's 0,2mm thinner than the leather grip. Maybe you could also try to stretch the leather grip?

 

[2ndServe]

did it change the headlightness of the racket? Leather grips are definitely heavier.

 

[borgpro]

I felt the same too so swapped out the leather for the pro hybrid grip and put on a babolat thin overgrip and this has done the trick of reducing the size a tad.

Thanks for the advice. I just did the same and treid it out, and indeed the pro-hybrid grip is thinner. Together with the overgrip the weight only slightly reduced with a few grams, actually a very welcome drop! The racket just plays nicer with a very small drop in weight and in thickness of the grip. Thanks!