From ttworld@erols.com Fri Dec 29 18:41:24 2000 Message-ID: <009d01c07209$e0bc8fe0$39bfbad8@dslnetworks.net> From: "Larry Hodges" To: Subject: Re: V-grip article request Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:40:29 -0500 Hi Tom, I will get back to you early in January. I'm in the middle of a training camp I'm coaching and 15 other things, and don't want to rush a letter that I may be judged on by posterity! :) Thanks, -Larry Hodges From ttworld@erols.com Tue Jan 2 10:02:52 2001 Message-ID: <04ed01c074e6$1099f840$39bfbad8@dslnetworks.net> From: "Larry Hodges" To: Subject: Re: V-grip article request Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:01:41 -0500 Dear Tom, Thank you for your article idea regarding the "V-grip." Unfortunately, I can only print about 1/3 of the articles I receive, and so have to be rather picky about what I do print. This would be a coaching article, since it advocates a specific technique, i.e. the V-grip. I actually get a number of coaching articles like this that go against what would be considered standard technique. Many are rather off-the-wall. I wouldn't be doing our readers a service if I simply printed every coaching article that came along, right or wrong. We have to use some judgement, and print those that could be considered more mainstream. I could, of course, print the article with a clear note that this is not considered normal technique. However, considering how much material I have to reject, I simply can't justify doing this, unless I were to also publish many similar articles. The bottom line is that the V-grip needs to be proven in a tournament setting to be a viable grip for players at a high level, a grip that coaches can recommend, before I can publish an article advocating it. When this happens, please resubmit the article (or, preferably, a short version of it, since we are so jammed for space), and we'll see. Table tennis won't advance unless we have entrpeneurs like yourself, but the product needs to be proven before it can be "mainstreamed." Good luck! -Larry HOdges