How To Find A Proper Serving Rhythm

www.feeltennis.net/serve-rhythm/
The rhythm on the serve in tennis is often overlooked because it's not that obvious but it is the key to powerful and consistent serves.
That's because when you're serving with the proper rhythm you can maintain the looseness of your arm and the same timings of your movements in the serve.
This consistency of timings will help you achieve high consistency in serving percentage.

[@mannyvega9825]

The best tennis instruction in the web. Thanks!

[@icecreamalacarte]

Coming from 2019-still king of mountain

[@SteveTennisStudy]

Very nicely demonstrated. I have watched most of your videos and I like how you explain 1)mechanics and then 2)rhythm and feel. It's easy to focus so much on mechanics that we never get that loose feel. Really liked your video on "throwing/guiding" the racket head. I get so much easy power now. It takes a lot of confidence in the mechanics to be able to do this but it definitely work - indeed with less effort. Thanks and keep up the excellent work.

[@Widmer09]

This works really well for me (intermediate player, 4.0). When I force the drop to happen (try to copy the pro's), it slows my swing down and the drop itself is not very deep. The rhythm 1....... 2!!! works great to fix it (let the racket drops by itself). You are an amazing coach!

[@ventabunda1527]

your videos are the most helpful I've ever watched... thanks.

[@denisbratic1920]

Covjece bozji, ovo je genijalno objasnjeno. Dugo nisam cuo da netko ovako jednostavno a sazeto govori. Ritam je jako vazan. Bravo majstore . Inspiriras ljude. Pozdrav iz Zagreba.

[@feeltennis]

Puno hvala!

[@royaladjemian5801]

Excellent as usual Thomas ! I like the simplicity of the 1 and pause 2 count . The explanation on tension on second serve hits home for me. I practice my serve often and in match play because of tension often loose my practice rhythm. My goal will be to maintain my ( 1 and 2 practiced rhythm during match play ) Thank you so much for your insight in Feel Tennis .

[@jamesmurphy2304]

you are a terrific coach. You break it down and keep it simple....thanks

[@hoanphung8511]

such a very useful advice on the rhythm of the serve! I tried it today and found it very helpful indeed. Thumbs up for you!

[@Plotin11]

Excellente leçon, comme toutes les autres. Vous êtes probablement un des meilleurs pédagogues de tennis sur KZbin. Bravo! Même lorsqu'on parle à peine anglais, on comprend bien les conseils qui sont très bien illustrés par vos mouvements au ralenti. Merci. Continuez votre bon travail.

[@p5tom]

This is my go to reminder! to keep my serve smooth, Thanks Tomaz! Cheers Tom D (

[@prasadvarier5855]

An excellent video... I could never do the service consistently. I would start practicing this from today... Thank you very much Thomas.

[@willycolonnello888]

Thanks I am watching your videos and I am taking notes are really very thick lessons Congratulations a lot of high quality material for free ... just fantastic

[@LovellLowdown]

Loving these videos.

[@bensonnyborja2008]

i found power in my serve with Thomas' instructions. he knows his thing. if you want to learn how to serve, just watch his videos instead of watching numerous different instructors.. that will get you confused. the 1-2 rhythm he explains here? the 2 part is very important if you want power in your serve

[@hrabmv]

i thank you so much for showing it how to serve properly.although i was doing good racquet drop only after wstching these videos i gained confidence that i am going in the right direction.thank you so much.even some pros would benefit from full understanding what happens in serve motion

[@StevenWilliamsHome]

Excellent. thoughtful analysis.

[@fairman1455]

The only question is Why ho Why are you so good at what you do? never the less thanks again for the detail, The truth is in the detail, not the devil.

[@hrida]

You are brilliant , the best i ever seen .

[@victorvasquezecheverriavas1298]

Thanks thomas, i cant wait to practice this drill

[@danielgomez9908]

Very well explained !!

[@chrisbos8116]

Makes a lot of sense to me, thank you!

[@luiscarlostrotta8119]

muy claro!!! muy bueno!!!! Gracias!!!! saludos!!!!

[@alihammoud6705]

Thomas can you do a video for the second serve drill please. I really like the way you teach. Thanks

[@rider36roy]

wow!!!! sir thank you again for this, very well explained

[@geoffhess2267]

Brilliant. I think that if more players focused on this one aspect of the serve, their game would immediately go to a higher level. Also at around 3:00 Thomaz brings up the point of how pressure situations when competing can cause us to speed up thus introducing muscular tension that disrupts a natural and efficient service rhythm. I play a lot of doubles, and I see this with players all the time. Takeaway for me is to master the 1-2 service rhythm, continue to checkpoint it during practice and competition, and counter any tendency when serving during a match to deviate from that. Thanks Thomaz!

[@loicmarceau5599]

Really good advice as usual :) Thanks a lot, it helps !

[@coachpetemoss5970]

Excellent!!!!

[@haythamsaad374]

Thanks for your important informations , IAM a coach but I usually didn't think to teach my players the rythem , how ever it's a good start to play a good serve

[@aydnatakan2358]

excellent thomas

[@rosbif00]

very nice and very tropical ;)

[@TeamTennisfr]

Another point of view I like is simply that at any time of the serve, one should relax as much as one can. The less effort as possible.

[@kinzaarslan1898]

Very nice

[@LubaLuba1]

Thomas you are so good but did you do a video on where the ball should be tossed coordinates?

[@tensaijuusan4653]

The man's a genius!

[@adenhealthchiangmai9197]

thank you best advised me. so i practice with bossanova rhythm my serve . It's work.

[@AdiBacea]

very interesting, in depth analysis of the things that we're doing unconscious.

[@feeltennis]

+Adrian Bacea Most people are way too conscious and they can't possibly bring down the serve to just 2 or 3 steps. The goal here is to make the trophy-to-drop phase unconscious so you work only with 1-2 rhythm with some time delay.

[@AdiBacea]

Feel Tennis Instruction I see what you did there :)

[@leonardomonteiro9874]

nice video

[@raysfonexchange]

Brilliant video and so easy to understand.... your a natural teacher - keep up the good work.

[@bosttl]

Am I the only one with the heartbeat to test this this weekend?

[@ayman1035]

thanks

[@ronniemcinerney3273]

exactly!

[@munsangkang8293]

Thank you for the demonstration. but it's very very difficult for me to do service with delay. I guess practicing only doesn't make a good service.

[@constable144]

As usual, a very interesting view of tennis, but aren't you not running the risk of encouraging a stop in what should be (according to most tennis coaches) a continuous motion ?

[@hrabmv]

i watched your RF serve slow motion and yours serve motion.pros extend the right arm so much more:) to me it feels sometimes my arm will detach from the body its not the most pleasant of the feeling if repeated lik 60 times in a row....i suppose body has to adjast throwing that arm to the widest possible point:) for your motion it looks as if there are 20 cm more you could have streched your arm before the contact

[@Joecuzzi]

My goal is to get that sound @7:44 from my serve. It's like did somebody just pop open a can of Pringles from the 90s?

[@MR57LV]

I’ve struggled for years with my serve. What’s funny is I’m very happy with my overhead. Lots of pop. My serve seems more like I’m just pushing racquet to ball. I’ll try your idea. It’s exactly what I would like to do. As a 13 yr old kid I shotput a lot and was quite good. But in high school baseball I had terrible arm. Poor throwing ability. Maybe shotput ruined me.

[@constable144]

As usual, a very interesting view of tennis, but aren't you running the risk of encouraging a stop in what should be (according to most tennis coaches) a continuous motion ? Sorry about the bad grammar on the first message.

[@lomna17]

the only stop is when holding the trophy pose which is what most tennis players do

[@Alexander-io7nb]

👍

[@bgdn5]

I like your form to explain but it helps not for every case) Sounds good but not the real analyse of service improvement. But Tnx a lot of your opinion

[@meditationman415]

Is it the same rhythm for groundstrokes and volley?

[@feeltennis]

Try this approach for groundstrokes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJaZo3efjtdkhrM

[@meditationman415]

@@feeltennis Many thanks, looks terrifically helpful

[@meditationman415]

@@feeltennis Worked like a charm 🙏

[@olafsrensen9578]

orsom .Many beginning servers do swing fase 1 to quickly, thinking they dont have time and as you mention looks very stiff and rushed comming to the pro.. face (2) I ask them did"t /don"t you learn to throw in school ? Specially Wimen/girls was never tought really to through a ball.

[@sebastianarce4627]

Hi Tomaz is it posible to send you a video to tell me how am I doing the serve?

[@feeltennis]

Sure, contact me through my website.

[@jpjounier]

I do not agree with that concept 1-2. The racket drop exists and it happens in a certain amount of time. Being conscious it is slow and controlling the loose feeling does not imply crispation. The phases of gestures that require looseness should not be avoided to avoid crispation. Interesting video anyway.

[@charlieb3497]

Let’s overlook the footfaults 🤷‍♂️

[@potatoO0o]

Sounds like a Slovenian accent.

[@wilsonsalazar3002]

FOOT FAULT!