I use to teach tennis in NYC and many of my students were Japanese women whose husbands worked there, and I can tell you they are the best students! They never complain, always give a 100%, laugh it off when they make mistakes, and are very polite.
A lot of Asian women were taught since childhood to please others especially men. They have to fit into a cookie cutter mode to get along in their culture... Pretty sad.
After paying attention to the coach instead of the cute girl, i realised that this is the best top spin serve coaching video. The video angle along the baseline is an eyeopener for me.
So far, it's the best instructional how to do a top spin serve using typical tennis court objects such as net posts, service lines, etc. for stance and directional positions. It's very clear and easy for viewers to absorb and follow.
This is brilliant, the ONLY serve lesson that has explained in words I can understand, not only how to serve correctly, but why. Thank you, thank you , thank you! How ironic it’s in Japanese! I clearly see now why I have only been serving a slice.
Lesson is great to a point, but physics tells me if I swing the racquet directly along the baseline, the ball cannot go forward toward the net. It's like trying to hit a topspin forehand solely by lifting the racquet straight up. So the racquet actually moves up from 7 to 1, out to the right and forward inside the baseline, and the forearm/wrist pronates to impart power and spin. 11:03.
Polecam Intuitive Tennis. Moim zdaniem najlepszy. This channel is also good. Especially for people who speak Japanese. Others have to read what the coach says and it takes their eyes from the student and her...well, guys, we know from what, right? :D
I didn’t see where the instructor talked about the grip. Personally I teach the backhand grip with the Top Spin serve because it sets the racquet face at an angle that produces more spin and extra kick to the serve. I also emphasize the concept of hitting up on the ball to make it loop up with and extra net clearance. This is a great second serve or first serve in doubles. The longer the ball hangs in the air the more steps you can take before up split step before your volley. Also you still swing the racquet fast and hard like a flat first serve. The extra spin will make the ball drop in and kick up. A good kick serve will bounce high above your opponents shoulders so they have trouble hitting through the return.
This coach is really amazing, it's hard to teach this type of new motion in such a short time, could also be that the student knew a bit of kick serving before. The ball toss is still too far right for the woman.
Now I have a question. When you are tossing the ball toward the left side of the head, are you tossing it forward, directly under the head, or slightly behind the head?
Ideally you would want to toss it roughly the same place for each (flat/topspin/slice) serve, but that's for an advanced level player. For less advanced players, you would need to toss it above your head or slightly behind if you can, so as to get maximum 'brushing' of the ball, if you can imagine it. Or imagining the ball as a clock face, you would want to 'brush' it from somewhere 10 o'clock at initial impact & 'brush' off at 1 o'clock.
I just discovered your channel and I am enjoying the lessons you offer, but there seem to be very few videos, and each was posted about four months ago. Do you plan to continue and, if so, how often will you be posting material? Thank you!
Anyone can do a spin serve but it must be described correctly so there is an understanding between the coach and student. The foot positioning is correct ...
This video is good enough for me. I got just a question. What the exact degree of racquet surface is needed when the racquet is hitting the ball ? Vertical ? Thank you for your kindness of considering my question.
Think of your tops spin serve as a topspin forehand shot played above your head and with the racket facing the backhand direction. In essence it is a reverse topspin one handed backhand shot. the reason he asks you to toss it bit to the left is the same reason you try to be just close to the ball while hitting the backhand. your body is not expected to move sideways while hitting the shot. In another video of this channel the other coach tells you can hit it with the same regular toss but by moving your body towards the ball. That is the more advanced, disguised version. This video is the topspin serve to learn for a beginner. So just like how you hit a forehand or back hand you go from low to high and meet the ball in between. You dont hit the ball at the top of the rise. You hit it in the same sweet spot as a forehand. if your still confused about the angle, try serving with a forehand with the ball not bouncing and tossed to shoulder height. see how angled your racket is and how much topspin its generating. generally more topspin means less power. if your racket face is facing the bottom of the net when hitting the shot you are putting a balanced amount of topspin and power. the same applies to the topspin serve. The racket when swinging should face near the bottom of net. but the difference hear is that you are hitting from a height way above the net and so will clear the net easily if you put good amount of racket head speed and then drop drastically. you could try pointing the racket head towards the sky and this gives the topspin under the ball and therefore generates too much topspin and far less power and so hitting with lesser speed will not cross the net. It however will create a great clearance over the net and as a consequence will generate great bounce. IT and is very effective at the juniors level if the opponent is short. if the opponent is tall it just sits there to be hit with no power. So if your trying to hit above the ball then your racket face is facing down towards the net and if your hitting under the ball your racket face is facing up. you dont want to hit it too much above or too much below as both wont go over the net much. ideally you should be hitting just above the equator of the ball i.e anywhere between equator and tropic of cancer if the ball were a globe. if the equator is 3 O clock and the north pole was 12 then you should be hitting between 1.30 and 2.30. The same goes for topspin forehand and backhand. if you are hitting under the ball you should be making contact between 3.30 and 4.30. I hope this helps. you can check another answer of mine if you want to learn more about this: www.quora.com/What-is-topspin-in-tennis-and-how-is-it-imparted-to-the-ball/answer/Pranav-Sreedhar
I know this post is from 2020 but Mr. Suzuki is explaining in a recent video that we should not toss the ball to the left in order to disguise the shots. He is advising to toss to the rights even for a kick serve. I am am confused how is the proper way to toss now. Maybe the translation is not accurate. Is there a difference between kick and top spin?
The coach explanation is very clear and easy to understand. The only thing that confused me is: The serve is more like a Kick Serve than a Slice Serve. A Slice Serve is aiming between 1-3 o'clock. A Kick Serve is from 7 to 1 o'clock or 6 to 12 o'clock. Very good lesson.
Unfortunate and offensive that the person who titled this video decided to objectify the student by calling her beautiful, and then the instructor declares that the serve is difficult for women to learn, without offering any particular reason.
Yeah that's pretty unnecessary and a very odd choice. I don't know if there's some translation error involved, say 'beautiful woman' is supposed to be 'model', which apparently is her profession, but that's a rather charitable assumption. I don't really understand why he said it's difficult for women. Because of the height disadvantage? Shoulder power to generate spin? No, supposedly it's just 'difficult' 🤔
Could be a combi of culture/language thing. I'm from a country not far from Japan, and it's normal to see girls posting their own youtube/tiktok with titles when translated to English will sound like 'Pretty chick hitting balls' ... It's definitely demeaning and objectified girls by western standards, but many eastern girls may not mind represent themselves that way. Regarding the 'difficult for women', I've not been in that part of the world for 25 years, so things may be different now, but around my time, girls were not encourage to play sports or do physical demanding activities. As a result, they had very little leg or upper body strength which require for this kind of strokes. I remember the table tennis tournaments at my high school, for 2, 3 years in a row, there were only two participants for the girl championships! The 1st place girl was very good, but the 2nd place was decent at best. But she was pretty and didn't mind the attention. There were plenty of girls with better skills than the 2nd place girls, but not participating due to either didn't want the attention or being steamrolled by the 1st girl.
@@Apanblod Kick serves are very hard for females. On the WTA tour, most female players use a slice serve for a second serve. The difficulty is that the kick serve relies almost entirely on shoulder and arm strength with some leg drive. There is no body rotation so the kinetic chain is very different from a slice or flat serve. The WTA players that can perform a kick serve well are typically the ones with broad shoulders. And it's difficult criticize how one culture "objectifies" females. Even in the US, I know powerful women at work that told me they don't mind being called beautiful. Other women probably do mind but I have never heard any women complain about the compliment. It all depends on the setting and certainly in a serious meeting, there is no place it but in a more informal setting such as on a tennis court with TH-cam, I doubt that she would be offended. If it offends your sensibilities then you have the right not to watch.
@@twinwankel I just think he could have been more specific in the explanation why it's difficult, in the way you were. And I think some of the 'questionable' language used is due to errors in translation more than anything if I had to guess. I don't get why you think it offended my sensibilities, I never made that suggestion.
Kiwa never performed a successful kick serve in this video. Even at 11:55, she rotated her hips in the After serve. So, she performed an unintentional slice serve here. The kick serve is the hardest serve to master and it will take more than one lesson to develop the kicker. Her after lesson remarks at the end was right in that she didn't feel she accomplished anything.
@@pranavsreedhar1402 No, kick serve is top spin with side spin initiated from underneath the ball (8 to 2 o'clock), while a slice serve is with side spin initiated from behind the ball, the spot where the three (h m s) indicators join to 2 o'clock or 3 o'clock.
@@strongbrain3128 that is a perfect combination of topspin and slice. behind or underneath is determined by the clock you start your racket. 8 O clock for kick(actually 7.30 is more precise) or 9 O clock for slice or 6 O clock for topspin. Yes in slice you make contact more towards the right side of the ball as thats only way its maintaining the direction you desire while still spinning sideways. You can hit kick with contact underneath the ball or slightly above the centre of the ball like between the equator and tropic of cancer. Underneath gives more topspin than side spin and over the ball gives more side spin than topspin. both have different power and spin for basically the same shot. You could do that with topspin serve as well. Hitting it under the ball gives high topspin and bounce and lesser power. If you dont generate enough racket head speed it will mostly just sit up for a tall player. If you hit above the ball you still get topspin and get its benefits of clearing the net easily while still bouncing inside the service box and travelling fast to the opponent with considerable bounce.
@@pranavsreedhar1402 Most balls are hit with spin, but slice in tennis has special meaning. You explanation basically means most tennis actions involve slices, are you serious?
I get the impression that soooo many of the users on her have never seen a woman before. Average looking women are labelled as ' beautiful '. it makes on wonder.
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I use to teach tennis in NYC and many of my students were Japanese women whose husbands worked there, and I can tell you they are the best students! They never complain, always give a 100%, laugh it off when they make mistakes, and are very polite.
A lot of Asian women were taught since childhood to please others especially men. They have to fit into a cookie cutter mode to get along in their culture... Pretty sad.
That's why Western behavior such as American is deemed barbaric in Japanese society and culture.
After paying attention to the coach instead of the cute girl, i realised that this is the best top spin serve coaching video. The video angle along the baseline is an eyeopener for me.
Very very useful. The coach’s serves were super accurate.
Best Kick serve video on TH-cam. More content!
So far, it's the best instructional how to do a top spin serve using typical tennis court objects such as net posts, service lines, etc. for stance and directional positions. It's very clear and easy for viewers to absorb and follow.
This is brilliant, the ONLY serve lesson that has explained in words I can understand, not only how to serve correctly, but why. Thank you, thank you , thank you! How ironic it’s in Japanese! I clearly see now why I have only been serving a slice.
Very well done coaching. Loving Japanese education.
Best concise explanation of the top-spin serve!! Thank-you!
Fantastic video, Nice analysis, Will try the tips tomorrow
Lesson is great to a point, but physics tells me if I swing the racquet directly along the baseline, the ball cannot go forward toward the net. It's like trying to hit a topspin forehand solely by lifting the racquet straight up. So the racquet actually moves up from 7 to 1, out to the right and forward inside the baseline, and the forearm/wrist pronates to impart power and spin. 11:03.
Finally english channel. Thanks.
Great instruction, about the fastest progress of the kicker serve I've seen by a student.
Perfect accuracy by the coach...and great instructions...and yes the girl looks cute
Thanks for English captioning!!
I think it's one of the best tennis channel in YT. Thank you for a lot of useful tips ! Best regards from Poland !
Polecam Intuitive Tennis. Moim zdaniem najlepszy. This channel is also good. Especially for people who speak Japanese. Others have to read what the coach says and it takes their eyes from the student and her...well, guys, we know from what, right? :D
@@nick_czem_nick656 dzięki :)
best kick serve lesson, thank you!
I didn’t see where the instructor talked about the grip. Personally I teach the backhand grip with the Top Spin serve because it sets the racquet face at an angle that produces more spin and extra kick to the serve. I also emphasize the concept of hitting up on the ball to make it loop up with and extra net clearance. This is a great second serve or first serve in doubles. The longer the ball hangs in the air the more steps you can take before up split step before your volley. Also you still swing the racquet fast and hard like a flat first serve. The extra spin will make the ball drop in and kick up. A good kick serve will bounce high above your opponents shoulders so they have trouble hitting through the return.
Backhand grip? One handed backhand or 2 handed backhand? Backhand slice or topspin?
I really enjoy it watching this serve technique.
You got English subtitle. Thank you!!
Really good work. Great explanation, keep up the good work guys!! Looking forward to seeing more lessons from you :)
Detailed instructions. Concise. Arigato gozaimasu!
this is a very good video
Very helpful instructions by the coach, especially the demonstration at the service line.
This coach is really amazing, it's hard to teach this type of new motion in such a short time, could also be that the student knew a bit of kick serving before. The ball toss is still too far right for the woman.
Very good lesson, can you make slice serve video like spin?
thanks. more videos with english subtitles please.
Thanks for video greeting from Morocco keep going 🤠
Thanks a lot. Kiwa zzang.
Nice! 👍
Excellent instructor!
Very nice video, thanks.
Thank for the translation! Very nice content.
Now I have a question. When you are tossing the ball toward the left side of the head, are you tossing it forward, directly under the head, or slightly behind the head?
Ideally you would want to toss it roughly the same place for each (flat/topspin/slice) serve, but that's for an advanced level player. For less advanced players, you would need to toss it above your head or slightly behind if you can, so as to get maximum 'brushing' of the ball, if you can imagine it. Or imagining the ball as a clock face, you would want to 'brush' it from somewhere 10 o'clock at initial impact & 'brush' off at 1 o'clock.
Nice.
킥서브의 정석을 보여주네요~땡큐!!
I subscribed for the girl.
Congratulations for having English su btitles finally!!
ahh.. after all no forearm introversion involved??!! I need to check it out now!!
Good work..pls explain different serves
What the diferent betwen kick serve n twist serve by takao suzuki
I just discovered your channel and I am enjoying the lessons you offer, but there seem to be very few videos, and each was posted about four months ago. Do you plan to continue and, if so, how often will you be posting material? Thank you!
Amazing
A slice serve is a spin serve too 😏
Ppl seem to use 'spin' only for one kind of effect (namely topspin) whereas there are more spins.
Please make more videos!
Nice coaching. 2 handed backhand for power with proper footwork lessons please (esp. when pulled off the court).
Anyone can do a spin serve but it must be described correctly so there is an understanding between the coach and student. The foot positioning is correct ...
Accurate title!
This video is good enough for me. I got just a question. What the exact degree of racquet surface is needed when the racquet is hitting the ball ? Vertical ? Thank you for your kindness of considering my question.
Think of your tops spin serve as a topspin forehand shot played above your head and with the racket facing the backhand direction. In essence it is a reverse topspin one handed backhand shot. the reason he asks you to toss it bit to the left is the same reason you try to be just close to the ball while hitting the backhand. your body is not expected to move sideways while hitting the shot. In another video of this channel the other coach tells you can hit it with the same regular toss but by moving your body towards the ball. That is the more advanced, disguised version. This video is the topspin serve to learn for a beginner. So just like how you hit a forehand or back hand you go from low to high and meet the ball in between. You dont hit the ball at the top of the rise. You hit it in the same sweet spot as a forehand. if your still confused about the angle, try serving with a forehand with the ball not bouncing and tossed to shoulder height. see how angled your racket is and how much topspin its generating. generally more topspin means less power. if your racket face is facing the bottom of the net when hitting the shot you are putting a balanced amount of topspin and power. the same applies to the topspin serve. The racket when swinging should face near the bottom of net. but the difference hear is that you are hitting from a height way above the net and so will clear the net easily if you put good amount of racket head speed and then drop drastically. you could try pointing the racket head towards the sky and this gives the topspin under the ball and therefore generates too much topspin and far less power and so hitting with lesser speed will not cross the net. It however will create a great clearance over the net and as a consequence will generate great bounce. IT and is very effective at the juniors level if the opponent is short. if the opponent is tall it just sits there to be hit with no power.
So if your trying to hit above the ball then your racket face is facing down towards the net and if your hitting under the ball your racket face is facing up. you dont want to hit it too much above or too much below as both wont go over the net much. ideally you should be hitting just above the equator of the ball i.e anywhere between equator and tropic of cancer if the ball were a globe. if the equator is 3 O clock and the north pole was 12 then you should be hitting between 1.30 and 2.30. The same goes for topspin forehand and backhand. if you are hitting under the ball you should be making contact between 3.30 and 4.30. I hope this helps. you can check another answer of mine if you want to learn more about this: www.quora.com/What-is-topspin-in-tennis-and-how-is-it-imparted-to-the-ball/answer/Pranav-Sreedhar
@@pranavsreedhar1402 Thank you so much for your kind advice. I will keep reading your comment and link for being well-informed of.
@@johnkimgretzky Thank you for your sweet words and for also asking this important question!
She's beautiful and speak really good English 👍💐❤
I know this post is from 2020 but Mr. Suzuki is explaining in a recent video that we should not toss the ball to the left in order to disguise the shots. He is advising to toss to the rights even for a kick serve. I am am confused how is the proper way to toss now. Maybe the translation is not accurate. Is there a difference between kick and top spin?
Im a tennis player but im watching this video because of the japanes language 💜💜💜💜
The coach explanation is very clear and easy to understand.
The only thing that confused me is:
The serve is more like a Kick Serve than a Slice Serve.
A Slice Serve is aiming between 1-3 o'clock.
A Kick Serve is from 7 to 1 o'clock or 6 to 12 o'clock.
Very good lesson.
0:31 Model Serve. Thanks
I know I'm nitpicking, but at 11:03 is a foot fault.
Unfortunate and offensive that the person who titled this video decided to objectify the student by calling her beautiful, and then the instructor declares that the serve is difficult for women to learn, without offering any particular reason.
Yeah that's pretty unnecessary and a very odd choice. I don't know if there's some translation error involved, say 'beautiful woman' is supposed to be 'model', which apparently is her profession, but that's a rather charitable assumption.
I don't really understand why he said it's difficult for women. Because of the height disadvantage? Shoulder power to generate spin? No, supposedly it's just 'difficult' 🤔
Could be a combi of culture/language thing. I'm from a country not far from Japan, and it's normal to see girls posting their own youtube/tiktok with titles when translated to English will sound like 'Pretty chick hitting balls' ... It's definitely demeaning and objectified girls by western standards, but many eastern girls may not mind represent themselves that way. Regarding the 'difficult for women', I've not been in that part of the world for 25 years, so things may be different now, but around my time, girls were not encourage to play sports or do physical demanding activities. As a result, they had very little leg or upper body strength which require for this kind of strokes. I remember the table tennis tournaments at my high school, for 2, 3 years in a row, there were only two participants for the girl championships! The 1st place girl was very good, but the 2nd place was decent at best. But she was pretty and didn't mind the attention. There were plenty of girls with better skills than the 2nd place girls, but not participating due to either didn't want the attention or being steamrolled by the 1st girl.
@@Apanblod Kick serves are very hard for females. On the WTA tour, most female players use a slice serve for a second serve. The difficulty is that the kick serve relies almost entirely on shoulder and arm strength with some leg drive. There is no body rotation so the kinetic chain is very different from a slice or flat serve. The WTA players that can perform a kick serve well are typically the ones with broad shoulders. And it's difficult criticize how one culture "objectifies" females. Even in the US, I know powerful women at work that told me they don't mind being called beautiful. Other women probably do mind but I have never heard any women complain about the compliment. It all depends on the setting and certainly in a serious meeting, there is no place it but in a more informal setting such as on a tennis court with TH-cam, I doubt that she would be offended. If it offends your sensibilities then you have the right not to watch.
@@twinwankel I just think he could have been more specific in the explanation why it's difficult, in the way you were. And I think some of the 'questionable' language used is due to errors in translation more than anything if I had to guess.
I don't get why you think it offended my sensibilities, I never made that suggestion.
triggered the Westerner lmao
These pros are so polite, yet so casually misogynistic, lol. Female player: teach me the Spin serve. -"Spin serves are difficult for women."
She says Hi a lot 😜. I know she’s actually saying Yes.
11:01 foot fault?
Anyone watched baby steps? He trained in stc? Is this the same stc?
Thank you for your video but be careful of the foot faulty. (0:32, 0:39, 11:01 from your video)
Kiwa never performed a successful kick serve in this video. Even at 11:55, she rotated her hips in the After serve. So, she performed an unintentional slice serve here. The kick serve is the hardest serve to master and it will take more than one lesson to develop the kicker. Her after lesson remarks at the end was right in that she didn't feel she accomplished anything.
She served mostly top spin serves with a slight slice spin, definitely no kick serves.
@@strongbrain3128 isnt a kick serve a perfect combination of slice and topspin?
@@pranavsreedhar1402 No, kick serve is top spin with side spin initiated from underneath the ball (8 to 2 o'clock), while a slice serve is with side spin initiated from behind the ball, the spot where the three (h m s) indicators join to 2 o'clock or 3 o'clock.
@@strongbrain3128 that is a perfect combination of topspin and slice. behind or underneath is determined by the clock you start your racket. 8 O clock for kick(actually 7.30 is more precise) or 9 O clock for slice or 6 O clock for topspin. Yes in slice you make contact more towards the right side of the ball as thats only way its maintaining the direction you desire while still spinning sideways. You can hit kick with contact underneath the ball or slightly above the centre of the ball like between the equator and tropic of cancer. Underneath gives more topspin than side spin and over the ball gives more side spin than topspin. both have different power and spin for basically the same shot. You could do that with topspin serve as well. Hitting it under the ball gives high topspin and bounce and lesser power. If you dont generate enough racket head speed it will mostly just sit up for a tall player. If you hit above the ball you still get topspin and get its benefits of clearing the net easily while still bouncing inside the service box and travelling fast to the opponent with considerable bounce.
@@pranavsreedhar1402 Most balls are hit with spin, but slice in tennis has special meaning. You explanation basically means most tennis actions involve slices, are you serious?
12:01
I agree with one of the viewers that she never did properly execute the 'topspin' kick serve. She even said so herself which was very interesting.😯
Forehand lesson please. Thank you
Oh so pretty
Volley
NAME?
Of what, my friend?
@@mkleng GIRL
She looks mixed. Is she mixed? And is this common in Japan? So pretty…
what's the girl's name? for school research.
Hi, hi, kuchema, hi, hi, Kucherov. Hi, hi, Nikita Kucherov, hi, hi, hi.....
I love this Video due to looking to this beautiful girl not the instruction, 555.
I can't focus because of the beautiful girl.
I'd like to take her for a spin...
I really dont understand japanese culture. That first setence just threw me off directly. "The spin is difficult for women".....
LOL
Be careful tennis foot fault
I get the impression that soooo many of the users on her have never seen a woman before. Average looking women are labelled as ' beautiful '. it makes on wonder.