serving grip for shakehand style
Table Tennis General
Last updated 14 years ago
Akshay Unknown Asked 14 years ago
How do you hold the paddle when you serve with shakehand?
Alois Rosario Answered 14 years ago
Hi Akshay,
For a lot of serves you can use your normal grip. For the pendulum serve though it is easiest to take the 3 fingers away from the handle of the bat. Then make a fist with them behind the handle. This will mean you are gripping the bat with only your thumb and forefinger. This allows you to use your wrist more freely.
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Piers Grey Posted 14 years ago
Adding to what Alois said about how to hold the bat when your doing a normal/reverse pendulum serve is after you put your three fingers into the handle to make a fist behind the handle, get your first finger and stretch it down the middle of the bat. This way, when your doing the pendulum serve you have more accessibility of using your wrist during the serve, which is key when you are doing the pendulum serve in a game (or when your just pracicing the technique of it).
andrew brand Posted 14 years ago
Piers Grey Posted 14 years ago
Hey, like you said Andrew. Different people have different interpretations of how to hold the bat during the serve; that's the beauty of the sport, the ability of individuality of how to play the game.
I prefer to have my index finger down the middle of the blade (sometimes, depending on what serve I'm doing) just because for me, I find it easier to sense the ball on the bat when I'm serving so that I can adjust what I do depending on how the ball feels on the rubber on the bat, but that's just me.