The serve consists of many parts that all must flow together. In today’s lesson, Brady progressively goes through how he teaches the service motion beginning with the stance, toss and rocking motion.
Published on 09/21/2020 by Brady
If the stance positioning references fixed positioned court geometry like the net post & baseline, then to control the direction of the serve requires the skill of angling the racquet strings at contact toward the serve target. Wouldn’t it be easier to practice serving to make contact with the ball at the same string angle consistently and then leave it up to the stance to control the direction of the serve by referencing the serve target rather than court geometry.
Don’t you think that it would be difficult to hit a target that’s on the court while you’re looking up at the toss? In stead of putting a racquet on the court, I cut & bend an old coat hanger to hook up a racquet to hang on the chain link fence at the appropriate height and then I practice tossing the ball into the sweet spot.
When tossing with the arm from inside the baseline it restricts the amount of core rotation that can be used to uncoil into the serve. If the front foot is pointing to the facing net post, the coil rotation restriction is worse when serving to the deuce court than the ad court. If the tossing arm is always in a plane perpendicular to the target the serving mechanics will always be the same regardless of where the stance is along the baseline.
Great tips as always!
Does Mark ever speak???
Very good tips to develop a solid and easy serve!!