Sanwei Pistol Racket

Re the demonstrator in the video:  clean technique.  Bodaciously illegal forehand service.  Fh counters, bh counters, fh loops, bh loops real nice with that sucker.  Chiquita flips too--at least I think that's a Chiquita flip.  Fh and bh short pushes, longer fh and bh skid pushes.  Feichang butso.  

Really really really annoying music.  Ram a sock up that.  Hard.

Too late for me, alas, or I might consider buying one of those bad boys.  I did once own a pair of pistol grip forefinger hole rackets made by the Swedish player and artisan Lennart Brendling, the Brendling D-40 Looper blade, which I bought from Mr. Brendling at the 1992 World Vets' in Dublin.  You (well maybe not me) could do pretty much what the guy in the Sanwei video could do with it, but after attending a Cheng Yinghua/Jack Huang/Larry Hodges clinic in 1996 I ditched that racket for a conventional Brendling as after trying to make a loose grip pendulum serve with the Looper racket Cheng couldn't get the spin he wanted and I took his advice that a cobventional racket would be safer for service. 

I still have the Brendling D-40 Loopers.  They are as streamlined as Zhang's Lamborghini, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one for a player with a wrist problem.  The grip and wrist position is very comfortable.

I can hardly wait until Sanwei comes out with a pistol grip penhold version.

It's good to be posting once again to this forum.  I'll try to be a good geezer.  Happy ponging to all.  Over and out.