edwardsjethro wrote:
Hi. I'm just starting to play with a Butterfly Primorac wood blade, 1.7 Rozena, and 1.3 Gorilla Neubauer anti. I'm switching from a Sardius with Tacky Chop and Butterfly anti. Any advice on how to play with the new setup is great appreciated. I'm a Seemiller style player, just to throw that out. Don't have a great backhand.
Do you live in North America ?
You can hear the whole story in person from the man Seemiller himself
Check this out
https://omnipong.com/EntryForms/1178-1.pdfhttps://omnipong.com/T-tourney.asp?t=102&r=3696&h=If I had lived closer I would have attended one of his 2 clinics just to pick his brain
And since this is an unsanctioned event I would even have played in Open Singles & Open Doubles LOL
But I also can tell you this. I do not call it the Seemiller grip because it is sort of unfair to Eric Boggan since both reached World #18 ranking & Eric Boggan was one of the considerations (along with Cai Zhenhua & John Hilton) that resulted in the horrible2 color rule of 1983. Danny Seemiller & his brother Rick were in top 10 in the world doubles ranking for a while I think. They have another brother Randy I think reached 2500. All Seemiller grip but if I am not mistaken Danny Junior is shakehand grip
Anyway there are some difference between Seemiller & Boggan grips.
Seelmiller is forehand dominant grip with a very powerful loop. (Chester Barnes in his book says that 1967 World Champion Hasegawa & Danny Seemiller had the fastest loops in their prime).
Boggan is more of a backhand dominant grip (for blocking). I think he has beaten all top players at least once and some more than once because they thought his backhand should be weak like Seemilier but paid the price.
(On a side note Eric's brother Scott was also a USA National Champion but played traditional shakehand short pips. Their father Tim was USATT president & he voted for the 1998 Durban Aspect Ratio Reduction Regulation. If had not it would have been a tied vote at 18-18 or something and I don't know what the tie break procedure was)
If I am not mistaken Seemiller had thumb on the blade on backside but Boggan had it on the side . This probably is why Seemlliier had a better forehand & Boggan a better backhand
Anyway there is a third grip called the Shapiro grip used by Shapiro father / son duo from Connecticut. They hold the racket in same way as the Seemiller / Boggan grip style but slightly modified so that they can use either racket side on either forehand or backhand at will without twiddling. I think they had long pips on back side I am not sure but could have been anti as I do not remember
My personal choice would be medium pips (so called long pips on ITTF LARC after 1998) on back side but you can experiment with both.
I am not sure you can the grip difference on a video but you can see some videos of Seemiller & Boggan playing against each otehr as well as against others on You Tube