Marking the badminton racket handle is an excellent way to help yourself learn the correct basic grip.
- Marking the racket handle
In the photographs for this guide, I have painted all the diagonal bevels blue. This is a time-consuming process requiring masking tape and paints (I used acrylics).
You don’t need such an elaborate method. Simply mark a straight line along the corner of the handle, between bevel 1 and bevel 2.
You can try various marking materials: correction fluid (such as Tipp-Ex), paint, or marker pen. If you use paints, you may find it helpful to use masking tape. In my experience, marker pen is easiest to apply but smudges quickly; correction fluid lasts a little longer but then flakes off; and paints are tedious to apply but last by far the longest (use acrylics).
Using marker pen on a towelling grip would probably be a good combination (easy to apply, shouldn’t smudge too much).
Since the racket is symmetrical, there are actually two lines to mark (180 degrees rotation from each other).