ballmachineguy
Hall of Fame
Couldn’t read all of the replies but I believe it is what you are doing with your shoulder that affects whether this grip or that grip will work. My shoulder can not rotate into a position that will allow me to hit with a western grip anywhere but into the ground. Very uncomfortable for me. People do the same thing with their shoulder every forehand stroke, for the most part. That is where the consistency comes from. Yeah, if you made someone that always hits with a western grip and always pretty much maxes out their external shoulder rotation on the forehand hit with an eastern, they’d hit them all out of the court. Maybe over the fence. No matter what grip they switch to they will do the same thing shoulder-wise. So, once the shoulder and grip are matched up the natural supination will just happen when you flip the racquet.
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