Talk:Table tennis grips and playing styles

Started the thing. Feel free to add to it, especially pictures for the grips. If you see a player's name in the wrong category, and you're quite sure about it, please move it to the right place. There could potentially be a new "styles no longer used frequently" section for things such as pure defense, the Seemiller grip and Cai Zhenhua's same colour spin/antispin switcheroo. Jimworm 05:05, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Penhold

Why is the penhold called a "Japanese" position? They did not invent it, consider NPOV? -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs 07:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, the penhold section mentions both the 'chinese' and 'japanese' variant of the penhold grip. These are just general designations, used by table tennis racquet manufacturers all over the world to indicate the difference between the round blades with a short handle and the square blades with a sculpted handle. If anyone has well-sourced info about who 'invented' a particular grip, then that would be highly appreciated. Wit (talk) 15:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would not characterize Samsonov as a looper. His playing style is more passiv, allround attacking, simply comparable to Waldner or Kong Linghui. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.127.8.17 (talk) 13:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Attacking chopper

It's difficult to make sense of the Attacking Chopper section, as the focus soon switches to the "defensive chopper" with no explanation of how they are different. If the attacking chopper is defined by his/her willingness to give up the initiative, it's also difficult to understand in what sense the style is attacking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricklaman (talk • contribs) 12:35, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jpen

The placement of the jpen section makes it sound like it's just another type of playing strategy. I think that within the jpen users, there are many different types of styles that fall under the styles you mentioned right above the jpen section. I think it's inaccurate to sum up all jpen players as one style. I'd rather not edit this and let the author make the call. KTSFanclub (talk) 22:09, 2 June 2011 (UTC) KTSFanclub[reply]

Hello KTSFanclub and welcome to the WikiProject Table tennis... you are welcome to improve the content and the quality of the table tennis page, in particular if you know details about jpen styles you are invited to include this information in the page. However all inserted information should be referenced. --Cialo (talk) 12:44, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

means almost nothing without pictures

I know basically nothing about tabletennis, and this didn't help. Badly needs pictures of all the grips — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.79.218 (talk) 05:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]