Your Best Grip Combo...

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  1. ^Tayo^

    ^Tayo^ Regular Member

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    I wanna know what's your best grip combo or you should must have or feel on your racket handle with the following criteria:

    - Grip size (G3, G4, G5)
    - Main Grip (original)
    - Overgrip
    - Grip corners
    - Grip grooves
    - Grip Towel
    - Glove
    - Grip Powder

    I personally like to use G4 + 1xOriginal Grip + 1xOvergrip and need to feel the grip grooves and grip corners.
     
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    If this is to be done, I think that it is also necessary to state the measurement from the "v" between your thumb and index finger to the end of your middle finger.
     
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    Most of the time , mueller tape over wood and then yonex towel grip on top.
     
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    ^Tayo^ Regular Member

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    I wonder if it's true, the smaller the grip size is, the more finger power you can generate.
     
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    g4 + original + 2 overgrip = perfect feel for me.
     
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    Well, think of it this way-- if your grip is too big, you won't have enough space between the handle and your hand to use any finger power at all.
     
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    If it's too small, you won't be able to grip the racquet properly. It's really a personal preference issue and you can't find the right one until you have experimented with different sizes.

     
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    i really like the mp99 3G grip, but i dnt know how to replicate that... anyone got any ideas?

    im using the AT800of and its crap... lol
     
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    The grip has to be G4. I always take off original grip, clean under it, sand a bit and put some vernish.

    Then I put 1 Karakal PU super grip and finish it with electrical tape instead of big ugly karakal sticker. I cut the tape in half so it looks like original yonex tape.

    Oh and... I said it many times.. but I will say it again. Karakal PU super with a plain color is rougher than a Karakal Pu super grip with 2 colors (fading). The fading Pu grip is more spongy and confortable.

    Thats the way I like it^^ :p
     
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    I just use a yonex towel grip. Remove the original grip, and put the towel grip on:D
     
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    For me it's towel grip with yonex super grap over it, both go up the handle til they run out, no cutting!
     
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    Towel grip underneath another grip?

    Strange.
     
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    If G5, I just use Feco slip-on towel grip over the original grip.

    If G4, I remove the original grip, put rubberized tape over the wood handle, then place Wilson or Head overgrip on top of the rubberized tape, then finally put Feco slip-on towel grip above everything else.
     
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    original + BlackKnight Rippled grip + BlackKnight Sensa over. Feels powerful:D :p
     
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    Yeah, you get a spongier super grap feeling, softer but you still get a good grip on the racket. I find that towel grips can get slippy very quickly, especially if you're playing a lot and you don't change them regularly. Obviously there's no point in putting a towel grip on under anything other than an overgrip.
     
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    I leave the normal grip on, G4 and put a Yonex Supergrap over it
     
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    If you have a larger grip, does that mean your racquet will be more to being head light?


    Let's say I have a G3 racquet and a G5 of the same racquet

    If I put the same overgrip on it... Which will become more headlight? And which will become more to evenbalance/head heavy?


    Or it makes no difference because the weight is put somewhere else?
     
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    normally i have G5 with 1 YY supergrap over it. recently my coach commented that my grip is way too thin for feel :rolleyes: so i tried 2 supergrap. i'm ok with either, and able to adapt to either one
     
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    I put an overgrip on top of my G5 original grip. It's one of Yonex's ridged overgrips and it keeps slipping down. Will removing the original grip make overgrips stick better?
     
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    The ridged yonex grips should be a replacement grip, so yeah... Remove the original grip and put it on
     

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