Terrific as usual - and explained from multiple points of focus! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this demonstration. I am currently learning to serve. I will be practicing these techniques until I get it right 💪🏾

Hey this is perfect, could you do one for the forehand?

Great tips, learning a lot from your videos, thanks.

Great lesson as always, only the audio is distorted maestro! Merry Christmas 🎄

Excellent instruction!!!

Is the gravity step something to use to get to any ball or just useful for wide balls?

Now I can do it, the racket drop, but how can I get such pretty girls😅

Lead with elbow(body rotation), with arm & wrist relaxed, let gravity do the job of racket drop. ❤💯

You can do it !

Good tip. I think sometimes the shoulder does that to try to protect itself if there was a injury in the past.

Yeah, imagine your placing your elbow on a post..

The (erroneous) concept of "driving the racket down" might be due to "old" thinking that when you volley the ball to the opponent's feet, you make it awkward for the opponent to respond.

Excenlent tips!

Excellent! Thank you. ❤

Love your serve…. Your genius is in the simplicity of your serve. Fm Singapore

I don't know. Kira's toss is all over the place. For her to start out with a parallel baseline toss is not really prudent. If you toss parallel to the baseline, you need to control not only getting the toss consistently between 12:30 and 1 but also keeping the depth to the baseline between 1 foot and 0.5 feet. That's too much to ask for a beginner. I would get her to toss at 45 degrees from the baseline. Once she gets some control, then you can talk about serve technique. But for right now, she needs to learn to walk before running.

super useful video

Beautiful! Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher.

Hi coach. Should the racket drop be actually moved quickly by the arm into the drop or should it just relax from the trophy position so it drops naturally?..

Дякую. Як завжди дуже цікаво і зрозуміло. Корти у вас в відео завжди топ!

awesome serve

Outstanding instruction!

Very good lesson Karina! I'm sure you'll soon be hitting a very nice two hander! You've got an awesome instructor! YOU CAN DO IT KARINA!! 👏👍🎾

It's not only a question of the length of your service backswing but rather and more poignantly the motion and path the arm and racquet takes in the final stretch of the 'load set-up', that is, in the pre-trophy or pre-throw stage; while Roger has a classic long and fluid backswing he nevertheless brings the forearm and the racquet up the palm and racquet face closed (pointing downwards) and thus from the 'right side' or 'front' of him in similar vein as, say, Djokovic who has a more abbreviated backswing. Roger performs an elegant trademark move during the racket 'take-up' that brings the arm and racquet from the extended position behind him (pointing downwards and "'left"/'"back") back to the front by leading the move with the elbow, so to speak and not letting the hand bypass the horizontal level defined by the elbow position but in the last moment of the motion in the pre-trophy phase. Respectively, Roger delays and mimizes external shoulder rotation until the launch. We call this move the "Fed crank" in our advanced service methodology. It differs from the Thiem/Jarry type of take-up (in which the racquet is brought up straight from the backside its edge leading) not only in stylistic/cosmetic terms but also in certain important fundamental biomechanical aspects. It seems there are two on the fundamental level differing types of throwing motions. And Roger does it the more efficient or 'right' way. Thiem and the rest of the bunch drive the racket to the backdrop with a more active motion while Roger and his followers let the launch up and out do the work via inertia (also gravitation has its say in the fall of the racquet). We conclude that its an index of Rogerian "style" serve if the racquet drops back rather in a half-opened orientation than neatly in a vertical orientation the edge leading. - One more elaboration: The ’frontal’ ascent path and the closed orientation from the horizontal level upwards are not a sufficient requirement for a 'Rogerian' backdrop/serve swing lag motion (we endorse in our service methodology) but it might be a necessary one. That is, it doesn't guarantee the inertial lag phase but it surely makes it possible while the Thiem type take-up makes it much less likely to happen. Since in the latter the racket is moved actively behind the shoulders and so on.

Good advice. As we age, efficient serve motion is lot more useful and easier on body.

djankoejoe

Thanks. Can you show how a senior player executes the serve and lands on the left foot please. I seem to land naturally on my right foot.

Very useful

I have been changing my serve style ever since watching your videos. It works. Spasibo bolshoy

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Great demonstration and explanation. I like the broom stick example to give people a sense of the cartwheel motion. I would also couple this with throwing a medicine ball vertically. This would enable people to feel correct way the elbow should take - which is coming from behind (in a pre-throw position) from low to high.

Thank you, this is really clear and so helpful..

So good. Best instruction out there.

It is a misconception that constant movement leads to fatigue as a means of conserving energy; however, this is incorrect. More energy is expended in moving a static object than in keeping an object in motion. Additionally, observing players moving excessively, akin to dancing, is also not advisable.

A short 4 minute video that shows beautiful forehand, backhand, and a little slice.

he is a great coach!

The best coach. Thank you for the video.

Only that the racquet drop is affected and partly achieved by the dynamic launch of the body/core up from the power position (trophy). And this dynamic intention can also cause tightness in the grip rendering the drop shallow. It is a complex and complicated nexus of motions and causal pathways therein. What works in isolation or in low warm up speeds might disappear when putting "all in" for real.

Great video. Its so hard to learn what you should focus on first when learning serve. I think your approach will work.

"You can do it". I sincerely hope so. I have been trying this with a foam ball away from the court for three years using video analysis. It is NOT easy (for me). Very good instruction. Thank you.

"Elbow position and racquet drop" - key words at the end of the video.

Thanks, great fundementals!❤

Spasibo Vladislav

He definitely knows what he is talking about!! Excellent explanation

Great video! How does the leg drive work?

Is it the same on the backhand side?

Amazing demonstration. Thank you and spasibo

Great explanation, it's helping me a lot to improve my serve. Thank you from México!

Great coaching and explanations, love the accent and voice too! The student has great athletic body, too bad she seems to struggle getting rid of the waiter's serve motion. She does the shadow swings all right, but when she adds the ball, she's like forgetting all of that. Probably she served too much pancake style, that's why I think students shouldn't be let to serve that way at all from the beginning. Begin teaching them serving with a continental grip from the start, maybe a slice serve!