D. Ajay
There is no concrete rule regarding the gripping or holding a table tennis racket in a game or a match by the INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION. Only RACKET HAND and FREE HAND have been mentioned in the ITTF rule. RACKET HAND means the hand on which the racket is held and the FREE HAND means the hand on which racket is not held i.e. free. On the basis of these, a player is allowed to use only one hand for holding the racket on his own way and the player will not be allowed to use both the hand for holding or gripping the racket and the player may be allowed to change his hand from left to right & vice-versa.
But the event cultivators observed few types of gripping are very much convenient to the players for achieving maximum performance. For this reason players are commonly using the following types of grips:
a) PEN HOLD
The style of gripping the racket by the player in this method is similar to the way of holding the pen or pencil etc. The Chinese, Japanese and Korean players are commonly using this style. Normally one side of the racket is being used in this style.
But nowadays some of the players of the above countries are using both the side of the racket with a new technique of pen hold gripping.
b) SHAKE HAND
Similarly the shake hand grip means the style of gripping the racket by the player like to the way one makes hand shake with other. Normally Indian players are using this style.
c) SEEMILLER GRIP
But recently a new style has been successfully introduced which is modified type of shake hand grip. Here thumb and fore finger form a ‘V’ shape on the back hand side of the racket. This style of grip is known as ‘Seemiller Grip’ in the name of successful user Danny Seemiller of United States.
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