Head Heavy Racket + Beginner = Bad technique?

It's important that you train your stroke to always be correct with any racquet; you cannot allow yourself to fall victem to using your arm too much when you start with a heavier racquet, you must strengthen your forearm so you can do the same motions.

 

heres for trying something completely different.
try smash and clear and drop with only using your ab/core muscles to rotate your bodyand have your arm just naturally follow through. Most players at the higher level need to incorporate using core muscles more so they can get full power out of their smashes - but since youre a beginner you could probably do the system backwards and learn the harder part (body rotational power into an overhead stroke) rather than the easier part (arm strength+wrist/forearm strength) first.

 

You could always get the racket, and while playing with it to hardcore wrist training excersices so that as you progress your technique wont be affected that negatively becuase your wrist strength would be growing proportionally (hopefully...)

 

Yes, I would also recommend this, except rotate your entire trunk using your hips as opposed to twisting your spine with your obliques. With a lot of beginners, especially older ones, there is sometimes a tendency to have overdeveloped fine motor control skills relative to underdeveloped gross motor control. What happens is that you can mimic the motion of racquet during a correct stroke, have the racquet head move through the correct path, but if you don't have the proper energy transfer from the hips through the trunk then to the arm and racquet, your technique is not really correct.

What you do instead is relax your arm, so you can let it move naturally as a consequence of your body movement. So, if you want to contact the shuttle high, you learn to "throw" your arm high with your body while keeping the arm relaxed. The use of a heavier racquet actually helps quite a lot with this. With a heavier racquet, you don't have as much direct control over it, which means that you cannot rely on your fine motor control skill and you have to bring your gross motor control into play.

 

I'll also agree to this. About racket selection: The last two rackets I got were both head heavy and im progressively using more head heavy, although I think im at my maximum range. One thing I noticed when i first switched over, was how effortless it is to get some good power out of a decent swing. Now im no powerhouse, im just saying in comparison, there was much more power available. The other thing I noticed were that I was more prone to swinging harder to get even more power, and I was over swinging/swinging too hard to the point of injury. Maybe I let the "power" go to my head, but I definitly found myself swinging hard enough to injure myself. The gym coach/owner told me its usually cause you can overdevelop major muscles, and make a lot of power, but you, end up having under developed smaller muscles, and tendons which stabilize your actions. I'd say, focus on technique, getting a good twist in your shot to really utilize your entire core power, and also focus on a good arm stroke to maximize your energy usage.

I just thought that its a little like sawing a piece of wood. You can use any saw, but a good wood saw would be best. A metal saw would work, but isnt the right tool for the job. Also using a full stroke and all the teeth versus small quick strokes and less teeth gets the job done faster, with less wear to the saw and least energy use by the user.

 

I think as long as you practice technique, you'll be fine regardless of what racket you use. I started out with a Carbonex 23 and it was pretty heavy compared to what everyone else was using and I still learned all the basics correctly.