Today we're gonna talk about keeping your grip dry.
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Oh, and we are old things paddle, and that's the biggest issue
we have down here in, in Miami.
And anywhere where it's really hot and sunny, I mean, you're playing right.
The worst thing is now you're getting, you're sweating.
Your hand is sweating, and now your grip is all wet and every time you
go hit Avol or, or any type of shot.
Uh, other where there's big impact, your, your paddle is turning on you.
Um, so how do you deal with that?
Um, you know, you're in the first second set and now you just, you're getting
a towel there, you're trying to clean it, but right afterwards it's getting
wet again, you're losing the grip.
So we have a few different products here, um, that we can use.
Um, we have to test it.
Yes.
Why don't you talk about the four on, I think this is the one that, that you
tested there on the, on, on the court.
Yes.
I have tested, tested the four on, uh, I, I, my son, I'm gonna be totally honest.
After I applied the, the, the product, the, the stickiness felt great.
But, uh, I played with it and, and the rocket as it was not even moving.
I mean, that rocket really, you, you get that, make a stickiness
on the, uh, on, on the grip.
But I think I put a little bit too much, and my hand was with that stickiness.
Even though after an hour of stop playing, I, I have to wash my hands at least
seven times because I couldn't get rid of that, that stickiness on my hand.
Wow.
And one of the mistakes that I did is that when I, I I, I put the
sprayed, um, pass me the paddle.
Yeah.
Um, I went a little bit higher, so I, I spread it all the way out here.
So my paddle was sticky all over here, so every time I grabbed the paddle
with two hands, I, I will feel the stickiness on my, on my right hand.
So, uh, for me it was a little bit too sticky.
Uh, and, and the feeling of having your hands, uh, Super sticky right after.
Um, I didn't like it that much, but it was a good feeling when playing.
So I think part of that is user error, right?
Yes.
So when you wanna spray, maybe spray down this way on your grip.
Exactly.
Um, and maybe not too much, right?
Yes.
And maybe turn it while you do it.
I, I think I used too much, honestly.
Um, but other than that, how was it?
Did.
Did you have any issues, uh, with sweat or anything?
No, not at all.
I mean, that thing doesn't move.
Okay.
You know, when you, when you put it out, things, things to remember too, when
and if it's really sticky there and if you're going to be changing your grip to
Eastern or Western Continental, it may be a little more difficult to do that.
If you're constantly gonna be using Continental Grip, then I think
that's gonna work out great for you.
Right?
Yeah.
Um, and just be aware that, you know, this thing is about $35.
So there's a little pricey.
Um, and then afterward, you said your hand was sticky through most of the day.
Yes.
So how did you get off?
Just soaking water or soaking water, but like seven, eight times.
I mean, it took me forever, honestly, I couldn't get rid of that thing.
Okay.
One, one thing here, you know, especially about plane paddling in, in South
Florida, it's, it's, it's very humid.
It's very hot.
Yeah.
One thing that I tell all my students is, you know, when you are.
Everybody use an over grip.
So when, when your over grip start losing that, you know, tackiness feeling, it's
time to, for you to change the grip.
Sometimes I see players that they use a grape for weeks and months
and that grip is so saturated with sweat that it doesn't work anymore.
Mm-hmm.
So, If you sweat a lot, you might have to change it every, every day that you play.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Before, I wish I can change every set.
Yes.
Sometimes it's so hot.
Exactly.
It's humidity.
You're sweating like you wouldn't believe.
You know?
And there is no worst feeling that every time you hit that,
that ball, the rack moves.
The rack moves, and you have to be readjusting the grip.
So just change the grip, make sure that you, you buy quite a few grips.
Mm-hmm.
Especially the ones that you like.
And same thing with grips.
We're gonna do a review on grips.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, every grip has a different feeling.
And, and for me, I'm very peculiar with what grips I use because I like it, you
know, some very specific grips, but, uh, uh, you gotta try 'em all and see
which one fits better for you as well.
Yeah.
And remember you can buy this, uh, Casa Paddle.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
Online or, uh, at their stores in the Dolphin Mall or, uh, over in Open Paddle.
Yeah.
You know?
Um, okay.
So.
This is one, uh, this is another option here, and this is what, uh, I, I, I use.
Um, it's by Gamma Gamma Gut, and this is, uh, just a towel as you
can see, but it's a tacky towel.
It's really tacky.
And so what I, what I do is I put this in my pocket.
Um, and then I just put in my pocket.
I, I grab it and I come out and it's tacky.
Uh, it works really well.
Um, I tend to always use this, but remember you keep it in your pocket.
Your whole pocket's gonna be tacky, but it isn't as bad as this.
Um, when it comes to afterwards, cuz it kind of wears out,
uh, more quicker than this.
Yeah, I mean, cuz you constantly have to be putting your hand in your pocket.
Did you have the same feeling with this?
That I think this is a lot more stickier.
Yeah.
So if you are a con, you use a continental grip all the time and you just don't want
it to move and you don't mind washing your hands, this is the way to go.
If, if you know you, you change your grip a little bit here and there, so you
want be able still to move it a little bit, but you still want that grip,
uh, this is probably the way to go.
Uh, but remember, you're gonna have to be using this a couple times during
each set by putting your hand in your, in your pocket, touching it, and then.
Or, or, or when you go through breaks, put it in your bag and you
go, you know, hold onto it, and then now you have a little bit more grip.
It works really, really well.
Um, this, um, you can get anywhere.
Um, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's really reasonably priced.
Yeah.
You know, I think it's like five or eight bucks, but it's not as sticky as this.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I tend to lean towards this, um, just because I like to.
To, you know, move my grip a little bit, depending on, on each shot.
All right.
So what did you think, Julian, about the, uh, gamma Gut?
Uh, honestly, um, I seen this product, uh, I was playing maybe a few months back.
Uh, one of my opponents was using and I asked him to what it,
what it was, and, and I used it a little bit and I was really,
really impressed with this product.
I mean, it's that, that you get that stickiness on that, on that, uh,
on that grip, and it's easy to use.
Uh, you can use it numerous times.
I don't know honestly what they put on the what materially or what is made
of, but honestly, it really works.
I mean, I'm, I'm, I was very, very impressed with the quality of
this, uh, grip, you know, the tacky towel and, and how, how it works.
So I, I really highly recommend this product.
If you tend to sweat a lot, uh, Seth puts it on, on his pocket.
Uh, I have usage.
Just keep it on my bag every time I switch size, every other games,
uh, just put it on my paddle and it, it really makes a difference.
Honestly.
Every time you hit a shot, you have that feeling of you're holding the,
the, you know, the racket well.
Uh, thanks to, to, to this script.
So I really highly recommend this.
And this is, uh, you know, uh, a known brand in the tennis community.
Gamma.
They've been doing strings and, and, and products for tennis for a long time.
So I, I, I believe this is originally for tennis product, but this can
easily be used for, for paddle.
Yeah.
Product, for sure.
Yeah.
Let's give, uh, these two, uh, products are rating, you know.
Um, so what do you think, Julian?
One to 10 on the, on the, uh, forum because of the after.
Forever tackiness, uh, you know, uh, I will give it, um, you
know, maybe seven point, 7.53.
Wow.
I'm getting really technical there, you know, specific and 7.7 0.53.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
But that extra, after I play having that, that really, you know, tacky
feeling afterwards, tacky feeling didn't, didn't like it that well.
Okay.
I will give, I will give this.
Uh, 9.2.
Wow.
Yeah, this one, I really liked it.
All right, so I, I, this here, I'm gonna give probably a, for me,
a six and for a couple reasons.
Number one, it is pricey.
Okay.
Um, number two, it is a little too tacky for me, and, and that's just me
because I, I, I move my, my grip around.
So if you're somebody who doesn't, then you know, you might like this.
So I'll give it, I'll give it about that.
A six.
This one.
Um, I give it.
A, a, a nine for sure.
Um, just because I use it all the time.
Uh, it, it's, it's grippy.
Um, why I won't give it a 10 is because I've kept to constantly be using it every,
like two, three times through the set.
Um, but I guess, you know, if, if it was stronger then.
Maybe I would afterwards have that grip and I'll have to wash it off.
So I'm not sure.
So that's the only reason why I give you a knife.
But I think these, both of these products will be really great.
Yeah.
Uh, depending on how you, uh, play on what your needs are.
Yeah.
You know?
Alright.
So let's talk about techniques of how to keep the sweat off your hand.
And I'm gonna show you guys what I do.
Um, so I use obviously a sweatband here and I put the sweat in
like so, and when I use my.
Paddle.
I put it right over this, and what seems to happen is when you sweat
your sweat's coming down here or even down your arm, it goes down and for
some reason it it's best to hit here.
Or if the sweat comes down here, it's going to.
Absorb into, into the sweatband.
If you didn't have the sweatband.
I think what happens is like, pretend we didn't have this.
When you, when you put your arm down, all the sweat comes down to here and
hits this, this cord here, and in the cord, it comes down here and actually
goes to your hand when, vice versa.
So by having a here and just having the.
Cord over here.
This helps eliminate a lot of excess sweat getting in into your hands.
And, and, uh, that's what I also do.
How about yourself?
How do you avoid sweat in, in, in your hand?
Uh, I mean, that's why reasons are all about four.
And what Seth was doing, uh, was saying it was exactly the same thing.
H how do we get the sweaty hands?
Main reason is water, sweat dripping down your arm.
It goes down to on, onto your wrist.
You know, you're always down here.
So the tendency is for the sweat to go down.
Shirt and arms and all that, that sweat will end up in the grip.
So that's why the wristband stops the sweat going onto your hand.
That's option number one.
Then using all these different products and the grips and changing the grip
quite often helps you to maintain the sweat away, but it's something that.
Uh, you can get rid of it.
You have to learn how to deal with it and use the right equipment for you to have
the best experience while applying paddle.
Now, if you have unlimited uh, funds, you can always have like six straight paddles
there, and you could just choose each.
Use each one.
As soon as it gets sweaty, just grab the other one.
If you see the professional paddle players like Sanjo and all these
guys, San now is sponsored by this.
They, they use this.
But they will switch, change grips, uh, every time they switch size.
So every every two games, they're changing the grip.
They're changing the grip.
Right.
Especially in, in sweaty conditions because for them, you know, missing
one or two shots because your grip is sweaty, can cost you the match.
Yeah.
The worst thing is when you go take a shot and, and you hit it.
Maybe not in a perfect sweet spot, maybe a little above.
And then your whole racket moves.
Yeah.
And the ball does not go where you want to go.
Yeah.
It's the worst thing.
And the ball goes out and you're like, oh my gosh.
Yes.
That's, it's the worst feeling ever.
But anyways, you can get all these products over Casa Paddle,
uh, remember to use our coupon, um, what's our coupon's name?
Paddle Smash 10 to get 10% off right there.
Use that.
You get 10% off all these products, or you can just go, uh, online.
Uh, casa uh, casa paddle.com.
Yep.
Or you can go visit them at Open Paddle.
They have a spot there.
Or over at the Dolphin Mall.
They have a kiosk there.
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