Hammer VS Pistol
Been experimenting with different grips for serve (continental) and forehand (semiwestern) using a hammer (marked 1) and pistol (marked 2) grips. The pictures only show continental.
Found that I was much more consistent on forehand with the hammer grip and was able to generate a lot of topspin and depth using this grip.
On serve, hammer felt strange at first as I really had to trust the motion and loosen my arm as my wrist was restricted hence I couldn’t really muscle into the ball when tight (which I shouldn’t be doing anyway) but after a while there was much more consistency with the serve and the serve was a much heavier topspin heavy ball.
My question is are these viable grips and do others use these with success? Any advice and information/suggestion/criticism is welcome.