What Forehand Grip is This?
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supersmash
Semi-Pro
Semi-western.
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lordmanji
Guest
western or extreme western. if it were semi, the knuckle of index finger would be directly on top of that corner bevel. instead, its mostly on the bevel parallel to the side of the racket.
jasoncho92
Professional
Its not full western but its definitely not semi western
lethalfang
Professional
That looks like the grip I use, and I always thought it was semi-western.
lethalfang
Professional
My grip, what do you think it is?
lethalfang
Professional
You mean the dampener? It's prince silencer.
http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/descpageACPRINCE-SDAMP.html
M J
Rookie
That is close to mine, but your hand is turned more parallel to the handle. Mine is more perpendicular. This would not have any effect on how you define the grip, but it seems like an important difference. Your index knuckle might also be turned very slightly more in the eastern direction. Maybe only by 15 degrees or so. (I am not saying I think it is eastern, I just do not want to influence the poll by saying what grip I think I am using. Especially since I obviously don't know.)
The angle at which your hand is holding the racquet seems really important, and I don’t get how you can define a grip as more or less extreme without taking it into consideration. If you define grip by reference to the index knuckle, it looks to me like my grip would be defined as slightly more extreme than this one. However, since the hand is more parallel to the racquet in this grip, the palm ends up at a more extreme position. I would guess this grip would actually play more extreme than mine, even though it would be defined as less extreme. I might be totally wrong on this. Does this sound right to anyone else? This might all seem pretty nitpicky, but I really see a huge difference in the way my forehand feels and the trajectory of the ball for very small grip changes.
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lethalfang
Professional
Good points. I've never thought of grips being parallel or perpendicular to the handle. Now that you've mentioned it, I just realized of my own grip change for serves. For my service grips (continental), I hold it more parallel for flat serve, and more perpendicular for kick serves. Do people do that?
lethalfang
Professional
Up 'til two days ago I was sure I knew how to define grips: by the "V" of the thumb and index finger.
On the Continental grip, the "V" would be on the first edge of the handle. And as it follows, Eastern grip would on the 2nd edge of the handle, and Semi-Western would be on the 3rd edge of the handle. Since my "V" of the thumb/index finger is more or less exactly on the 3rd edge of the handle, I thought I had a standard semi-Western grip.
That brought me some confusions as well. I thought the Eastern backhand and the Western forehand grips are the same grip, and that if someone uses Western forehand grip and Eastern backhand grip, he/she wouldn't need to switch grip, and he/she would be hitting on the same face of the racquet for both strokes.
Geez, the grip things are complicated!
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krprunitennis2
Professional
Oh crud, thought that the first pic had the racket facing down. It's semi.
onkystomper
Hall of Fame
looking at rhr poll results it is obvious a lot of peole on theae boards have no idea` what they are talking about!!
KingOfTennis
Professional
man it would be soo much easier if they had a pic of him holding the racket as if he was preparing for a shot.
Baghdatis72
Hall of Fame
Between western and semi-western I would say.
animagriever
New User
I'd say between Semi Western and Full. Extreme Semi Western?
innoVAShaun
G.O.A.T.
What grip is this?
Just a western.What grip is this?
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
4/5 W to a Full W?
