Table Tennis - Get a Grip!

Jörg Rosskopf of Germany - a good example of dropping the fingers from the bat when serving. Balancing the ball on your nose is optional!

Photo by: Zeljko Lukunic, courtesy www.ittf.com

Stephen Siew wrote:

Dear Greg,

I have read and seen lots of forum and videos on playing table tennis. I actually like lots of your articles.

However, one day I found out that I still have not learn enough. I'm not talking about how to loop, how to serve etc. It's more of how much strength that we need to hold out racket when we play for eg. while serving, while receiving, while blocking. A coach told me that different strength (tight or loose) with same movement will have different results. He told me that if I want to impart my own spin to the ball, I need to be tight. If I want to borrow my opponent spin, then I need to be loose.

Hope you understand what I mean and have some article on this too. I believe it will also make your article complete.

Hello Stephen,

I certainly don't want my articles to be incomplete, so I had better hurry up and write something about grips! ;)

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