How to Serve With a Racquet Lag | Tennis Serve Lesson

[@IntuitiveTennis]

If you serve with the “up together” technique and it’s working well, it’s all good. However, if you have problems on your serve and want a little more pop, give “the lag” a try. Check out my free “The Croatian Serve” course. The small country of Croatia has three players inside the top 10 all time aces rankings. I break down the technical elements that make their serves so efficient. 👉 bit.ly/tcs1977

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[@cindymeiser4852]

This man has tremendously improved my game. I love his videos

[@dudem5447]

you are the best internet tennis coach!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Manuel 🙏

[@saiisking333]

Having a lag helped my serve. I can totally relate what you meant to say from this video. It is a huge transformation. Loving it now !

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Glad to hear that Naga Sai, thank you 👍

[@joakimster8431]

Nick, you're the man! Your videos on toss types and takeback types made me change my serve, I moved away from tossing along the baseline, I now toss into the court instead, makes it a lot easier for me to control the toss. What it also means, though, is that the shoulder turn now comes after the toss, making it a little difficult for me to sync the racket arm motion with the shoulder turn. I now realize I should just have a bigger lag, so I keep the racket down till after the shoulder turn, to simplify things :-) So that means for the next months I´ll work on my serve being: 1 Short racket takeback 2 Toss, keeping the racket down 3 Left arm continuing up, weight shift, body rotation, hip rotation, STILL KEEPING RACKET DOWN, 4 lift up racket swing left to right, and KA-BOOM!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Sounds like you’re going be dropping the 🔨 in no time Joakim 👍👍

[@joakimster8431]

@@IntuitiveTennis I hope so... ;-)

[@vkova229]

The best tennis channel out there. Great work!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Vid 🙏🙏

[@ripleypipe]

Nik, I've been undecided as to whether the 'in sinc' or delayed serve technique is best, you've now convinced me of the one to use. Thank you, Gordon.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thanks Gordon 🙏 Everyone is different. Try and see what works best. If you are comfortable with the lag it is the one I would recommend.

[@roddickfan90]

Always struggled with my serve, really looking forward to practicing this. Thanks for the tip!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Glad to hear that roddickfan, even though this style is different from your favorite player lol

[@catalinsimescu9872]

Nice video,Nick.All the best !

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Catalin 🙏🙏

[@lordbyron3603]

I went from the Lag to the Up-together and back to the Lag in the 40 years I’ve been playing mainly because I really didn’t know what I was doing ... not understanding fully the mechanics. The four major points you mentioned makes a lot of sense. Now I understand what it is I’m doing and why I’m doing it! 😁Thank you Niko 🙏 for clarifying the long held misconceptions I’ve had about serving.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Glad to hear that 🙏

[@tennisKarla]

Another amazing video, thanks again Nick for the all helpful insight!!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

thanks Karla 🤜🤛

[@umutkara739]

Another quastion is answered. Thank you.

[@ron2117]

Explained very well.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Ron

[@ron2117]

Unfortunately to late. Although I will keep trying , great stuff.@@IntuitiveTennis

[@ron2117]

Hi Nikola. Trying very hard with the lift off, but just too complicated for me, also not good for my back . trying to work around by getting on my toes and arching. My main problem is my toss is too low. Any suggestions?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Sorry Ron, I don’t know what is wrong until I see the serve. Just turns into a guessing game

[@adrianmilton_]

Loving those shoes Nikola👌. Thanks for the insight on that area of serving, I'm going to work towards shifting to lag from the up together motion.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Haha, I actually prefer Nike, but Adidas is good too. Thank you 👍

[@adrianmilton_]

@@IntuitiveTennis yeah I've noticed your preference for Nike. I saw The Croatian Serve course a month ago and over looked. I will be sure to check it out this time, thanks again Nikola👍

[@marcusms6301]

it just makes so much sense, thumbs up from Canada.

[@christiane785]

Ability to focus on consistent toss is biggest benefit of lag technique for me.

[@LaBambaCL]

more lag=higher toss? interesting, so many lag variations. once again, i like the technique correlation you do with top pros.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

LaBambaC, thank you Not necessarily. Toss height will depend on the rhythm. Kyrgios and Karlovic both have full lag but different rhythms and consequently different toss heights.

[@jklee5520]

Thank you so much

[@IntuitiveTennis]

my pleasure JK

[@hansolsson3409]

Lagging the racquet behind the ball really works, i tried it today. Thank you Nick!

[@ckpenn1233]

great lesson for my teaching. thank you sir

[@shaanshaikh989]

Works like a charm

[@laurencecorray]

I am astounded by your material. Mind blowing. You are the best on line coach. Light years ahead! Incredible and you are giving it for free. Have you lost your sanity and I mean it as a high compliment!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

😂😂 thank you 🙏 🙏

[@DFUTGI]

Great lesson.beatiful court.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Felipe

[@GrungePopRecords]

Wonderful video. Thanks

[@shaanshaikh989]

Works like a charm.

[@MR57LV]

Very helpful

[@andyiswandy1955]

Thanks, i like you , Sir!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you Andy

[@JeffLewistennis]

The lag definitely helps people keep that racquet moving!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Jeff, 👍

[@DamienJemison]

I’m going to try going back to a lag. When first staring to play tennis last year, a coach told me I should raise both arms together. He was a former pro, so I took the advice. It never felt right for my timing. I feel like the stop in motion at the trophy position, while waiting for the ball, killed my rhythm, and therefore the consistency and power.

[@jackspradlin4183]

I do a platform, love your lag serve, can you do a video that could help with the weight transfer done correctly as I have done it wrong a long time, I see how it is suppose to be done, does not feel good when I try the lag. Maybe you can simplify. My racket feels like it is working after the lag instead of letting bodyweight transfer move it through the racket drop and swing like your service motion

[@envise]

Thanks for the informative video. Your effortless body balance really stands out. It will be really helpful if you can share your thoughts on achieving such balance.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@transamination]

Great video. I felt like I had to do 'up-together' because that's what a coach told me to do, but I hate it. It feels really weird, as if I'm trying to synchronise two motions that contradict each other.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Lag is easier to execute for most players.

[@Adventurevictoria]

You are the one of my favourite demonstrator for tennis but I have different opinion about most advantage of Lag against up together is" More time and Space for upper torso rotation ". Toss first and Serve with following hand with racquet allow us to create huge space to rotate our upper body in order to accelerate racquet head with energy from the ground not only from your torso which you will have huge advantage not only speed of serve also prevent you from fatigue for a long time of the game . This will apply both pin point stand and platform stand . Without this beneficial probably I will stick with Both hand since there are also serious benefit of "simplicity of movement " compare to Racquet Lag pattern once get used it .

[@zainashraf3492]

In your Croatian serve course, I see that all of them use a pin-point stance. Will the serves be effective with a platform stance?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Zain, Platform is a good stance. You have to find what works best for you. Platform could theoretically work with the Croatian style presented in my course.

[@stevenhowie4219]

Great video, how do you time pin point foot movement with the lag and weight transfer?

[@stevenhowie4219]

Should you weight transfer to front foot whilst tossing the ball and bringing back foot up?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@stevenhowie4219]

@@IntuitiveTennis thanks again Nik, awesome work as always

[@anseinueseima408]

What kind of serve is Delbonis?

[@林威廷-i7l]

This is how Djokovic serves

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Good eye Ernest

[@blu1806]

Hi Nik and thanks for the vid. I whish you could address the correlation between the type of toss and the hight, and the take back. Federer and Karlovich being the best examples, I have noticed they both shift the weight first going back and initiate with the right arm and full take back and swing pronation for fed and half take-back and slot pronation for Ivo , then shifting forward and toss ( Federer lower and side toss, Ivo higher and forward) then shift back to center and up for Fed and step and up for Ivo. I agree the the Ivo style is faster but generally speaking is less precise ( more moving parts) readable and flat , the Fed style more dependable, less readable and spinning. Lastly I found that the no lag and up toghether with a low toss can be fast and precise see Fognini. Do you think it make sense?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Blu 180, thanks for the comment. Yes there’s definitely a correlation between the quickness of the rhythm and the toss height. Take Kyrgios as an example, he has a full lag, fast rhythm and a lower toss. Karlovic on the other hand has a full lag, higher toss and a slower rhythm.

[@JJVee427]

Good video but 5:00 i thought you could've made the up together motion and the pause a bit longer & dramatic to really make it obvious...honestly I couldn't really tell the difference by much after watching the two serves multiple times....maybe it just means you have that much of a good muscle memory lol

[@IntuitiveTennis]

I try my best when demonstrating different styles, but muscle memory is too strong at times. 😭

[@justinhaught]

power, pro power, comes from the wrist drop as youre coming up after the ball - it doesnt matter the backswing etc.

[@최천수-y5k]

Well. I think up together serve is much better than lag.. because there are enough time to swing and heat the ball. It means better contact timing .

[@junyoung567]

Doesn’t Tomas Berdych use more of a up together than a lag?

[@jyyk9331]

my head understands, but body doesnt follow...

[@mikehardwicke23]

Roddick has an enormously abbreviated BACKswing; perhaps that's why?

[@morecowbell7089]

Not much instruction in this video. Most of video talks about the benefits of a racquet lag but not how to do it.

[@drbonesshow1]

There is another way to serve: that is to have a longer swing: starting the swing motion as the arm moves back after which the toss is initiated as the arm starts to move from back to front.