6:52 does this mean that you disagree with Jeff Salzenstein’s “dirty diaper finish” on the kick serve? Where he says the strings should face your body instead of the side fence on a kick serve.
OMG this lesson was insane! The explanation of 0 to 180 degrees and where we should hit on the pronation and where the palms face was so on point! Toss and bend was great to point out and I’m sure I’m guilty there. No way this lesson should have been free!
I am amazed by the amount of DEPTH you give into your analysis in order to leave no stone unturned in what you are teaching. I consider you and Milan Krnjetin of TENFITMEN the best online tennis coaches, BY FAR.
Great video ryan! Having your arm pronate at the end of the serve is so important! Really gives you that pop. Are there drills that could help reinforce that?
15:45 I find that the tossing arm automatically tucks in if it stayed up longer before. If I drop the tossing arm too early, it will tend to "get out of the way" and not form the X anymore by the time I have hit the ball. But if the tossing arm stays up longer, my body will turn into the arm drop, and then I get the X-like barrier. Everything is connected!
The birthday hat analogy threw me for a while until I remembered a similar tool from 'Feeltennis' about one continuous motion and a serve trainer with a ball on a string, then I understood what you mean. This helped me visualize the pause in my serve as a negative. I am working on a more fluid serve. Wish me luck
Ryan: Really GREAT video. So insightful and practical. I have one question/observation that I would love to hear your thoughts about. What you say about pronation makes a lot of sense, and the analogy to throwing a football or even baseball (assuming one isn't throwing a curveball) is on point. However, the point you make about the tossing hand tucking/pulling in at contact in the service motion to help accelerate the racket head speed, which also makes perfect sense, to me is an illustration of how the service is very different from those throwing motions. When throwing a football or baseball the free arm behaves much more like the tennis forehand - i.e., it rotates away, ahead of the throwing arm, to translate torso rotation into speed and power. No one would suggest that when striking a forehand, the free arm should tuck in at contact, although the foregoing logic relating to the serve might beg that question. What is unique about the tuck-in of the tossing arm in the service motion is that it helps arrest the body rotation (as you correctly point out), thereby accelerating racket speed. I don't know of any other sport where this happens. So a serve starts out like a baseball or football throw, but then ends very differently. To me this further illustrates why the service motion is uniquely challenging. What do you think?
I think you’ll really like this video. I’m heading to bed now but will answer you tomorrow at some point. Thanks!! th-cam.com/video/l5LLmDLXyDY/w-d-xo.html
@@2MinuteTennis got it. The video answered my query. Are there other sports where the non-dominant hand plays a reactive braking role? Btw - even in the one handed backhand the non racket arm plays a braking role - in that case by moving in opposition to the racket swing.
Actually -the volleyball spike is remarkably analogous. Most videos I found show the non striking arm either stopping or tucking in, post rotation, to prevent over rotation. Question withdrawn😎
I saw the same misleading serve lesson. When I saw that tip I couldn't believe it. Sometimes the pros when they try to slow down things to explain them they just teach all kind of things that they are not doing. Not to voluntary mislead but due to a lack of analysis about what they teach.
@@PuissanceMandataire yep. Same here. I saw him say it to Rune. Did he say it to another student too? If so, do you know which video and do you have the link to it?
I thought it was useful to rotate the body to gain power on serve, at same time i asked myself why i can't fall only with the left leg on the floor. 😄 Thx a lot!
I like the birthday hat analogy. Had a big problem where i wasnt swinging racket over my head enough (only over 1 ear, not both ears). Birthday hat method was instant fix mid practice, although i didnt use a birthday hat
Wow - #5 I knew nothing about that. I don't think I do it (have never been taught that) but will check tomorrow on the court! And will ensure I'm tucking arm under! 👌
EXCELLENT content in an easy to understand explanation coach Ryan! I know what famous TH-cam coach your talking about, I found it pretty surprising also. I will put your tips to work! 👏👍🎾🎾
as far as coaches go who were your mentors and who inspired you , old school like Vic braden , Dennis Van de meer , Bollettieri? Macci would be in that class as well , I saw some great footage from Oscar Wegner who coached Kuerten to 2 french open titles. Let me know thanks!
Good video. However you need to dig a little deeper on serve mechanics. forearm pronation is only a quarter of the story. Internal shoulder rotation is the driver.
Ryan: is this how u teaching to use the forehand grip ???😊 Other than that 1st part ; ur physical body is designed by nice tennis skills correctly! But u didn’t mention the serve is supposed to show the first serve and second serve; is this the second serve?
Ryan, I love these videos so thank you for sharing your insights. I just want to clarify one thing about the continental grip. Doesn’t it inherently put your racket in a “strings slightly down” position? I’m left handed, but I think I understand which bevel is number 2 for me. It seems to me that holding my racket straight out in front of me and then rotating one bevel to the left results in a slightly closed face - or have I completely misunderstood the grip?
Right edge is usually in front on a slice but not always. Swinging out to the right with square contact will result in slice spin. No problem with your explanation as that is the norm but technically one can get slice spin with a square racquet face. BTW, although long axis rotation past contact is nice it is far from necessary as shown by Pliskova among others. For many people there is a trade off between accuracy and long axis rotation past contact. It is a natural move and trying to force it can be counterproductive unless a player is obviously holding on to the detriment of their serve. For some people it doesn’t affect their accuracy and it is preferable. Isner and Federer certainly don’t lose any accuracy.
Hi Coach Ryan, I've always been wondering: when serving, does the back leg intentionally kick back or it is just a natural follow up after the serve? When I serve my back leg always goes to the side instead of kicking back as pros do. Thank you!
Hello! Super video as Always. The pronation on slice serve. Mouratoglou is teaching the way you mention as incorrect. ;-). This one is complex. I understand the theory. But i would have liked to see a demo. With slow motion. From you of course! Not Roger :). Thanks a lot if it's possible.
Patrick teaches advanced students that have the fundamentals in place. Misleading to say one technically is incorrect and the other is not. Especially depending on the level of the student. See his serve videos where students are not fully coming around as shown here with arms flaring out of control. I get what he’s saying here but again there’s a difference between typical rec players and pros or juniors playing at advanced levels
@@bmanbusee3812 and the boy is not advanced. At least not on the serve. Which is normal at that age. Service motion is not easy to get. Otherwise all the best kids would already master all type of serve. ;)
@@norienor4658 have no idea about what video you’re referring to. Also some start playing at an earlier age than that but I digress. Most of his students are advanced and go pro at some point.
Hi Ryan, this is all great and helpful to recreational players (with thanks). But they are still bio mechanics, mostly relating to arm swings being seen mostly at social levels. When will you make a video about the most fundamental aspect of tennis serve to get real power - the whipping motion and effect? Once one mastered this concept, the rest are basically given as well. It is not easy to explain and demonstrate. But with your excellent teaching way it will definitely deliver.
I agree with all of your assessments except for number five... Even though I do agree with it I have seen Andy Murray do that exact move.... So it's not always an absolute
I don't fully agree for the tossing arm behind. The problem is to throw the arm behind directly, so as you say there's a loss of power by too much body rotation. But it can be done differently ; at impact, the tossing arm is close to the body, then after the end of the pronation, it can leave the body and go behind. You can see it on that good channel 😀 th-cam.com/video/tbxK9Aqy5GY/w-d-xo.html
Im going to me mindful of my racket movement tomorrow and will check if I‘m doing the „birthday hat“. If anyone is bored you could check my serve videos too, thanks 😇
Again: YES, you can go around the ball from right to left for a slice serve. Actually that exactly IS the slice serve. The other one is an adapted pronated serve, which admittedly is hit almost all of the time by the pro players. That does not discount the slice serve though. The teachings are different and the players reflect that.
you cannot go around the ball for slice. sorry, not possible. feel free to film yourself serving (and even try to go around it as you hit), but you'll see in super slow motion that it's not what happens as you're hitting. There IS some value to trying to do it or feeling like that's what's happening (i've asked students to attempt it before to help them not hit so flat knowing full well that they can't actually curl around the ball). The reason the pros do the pronated version is because that's the actual way it's done. And i can promise you that most pros feel like they're curling around the ball, too...even though they aren't. Thanks for watching!!
You were watching Dominic Thiem too much. His kick serve is excellent that's why he contacts the ball a little bit earlier, but as for the great flat 1st serves I don't think you can contact the ball at 85 as you said, because your toss should be slightly forward, so 85 is impossible.)
Everything is good except pronation part, biomechanically wrong teaching, 100% golfers elbow guarenteed, pronation should occur naturally and not stop it the same side, pronation up and high not use elbow and bring it down, that harm your a for sure.....
When an ice skater is spinning with arms out and then pull their arms in, they spin faster because their moment of inertia (resistance to rotation) decreases. Conservation of angular momentum means they spin faster. The same principle applies to serving. When you pull your throw up arm down, tuck it in and finish in the X position described in the video, your moment of inertia decreases and you swing faster. Pull your throw up arm down faster and tuck in faster you swing faster. In simple terms you can only swing as fast as you can pull down and tuck in your throw up arm. Try a few air swings and move your throw up arm down and tuck it in slowly and then swing and pull down and tuck in your throw up arm faster and see what happens to your racquet speed. It will speed up without any apparent effort on your behalf! You should be using both arms to generate racquet speed just like a pitcher in baseball and a fast bowler in cricket using both arms to generate ball speed. But you have to practice to synchronize the motion each arm to get the timing right and create the whip crack he talks about in the video. Check out a video of Ash Barty serving. Her throw up arm goes from being straight up to being tucked in, in the blink of an eye. Similarly Rod Laver back in the day.
I have 4/5 of these sins and working hard to fix them. Thanks! Also I recommend watching an entire pro match only watching the pros nondominant hand. You will be blown away at what is happening.
I still struggle with pronation, when I first learned a serve in the 90s we were taught to snap the wrist down. To get more pronation would it be fair to say that you have to let the racket come around the body more during the backswing and then you just have to let pronation happen rather than forcing it?
Thank you coach, since a long time i knew i do something wrong with my service, i was working a lot with my rhytm and a lot of stuff, but i’ve never realized that i flex my knees during my toss. Quick fix and my service is much more fluid and better, because i toss first now, thanks, you are doing good job!
Agree with 1 to 4 , but I have to disagree with the 5. Top players when they finish serve always kick back the non dominant hand. Are you sure about the hugging ?
Not all top players throw the arm back. Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer don’t. There’s no benefit to it. There’s a large benefit to crossing the arms. Look at Nadal and you’ll see he basically hugs himself when serving.
Not a fan of crossing my left arm when I serve either. I fell like my body is being restricted. Not a fan of swinging my left arm at the back also. Coz when I catch the racket with my left arm it take too long coz it has to travel very far. I am a fan however of bending my left arm about 45 degrees and positioning it on my side ready to catch my racket and back to a ready position asap.
@@d_man28 That also confused my quite a while. Then I figure our this throwing arm is happen when you use your core to 'press' on the ball at the contact. The non dominant arm are more like squeez out than throw out. However, you don't see that core bent at recreational level a lot and it does not make sense to purposely throw out one's arm.
the left arm goes behind on every first serve of kyrgios and murray look their serve finish ma boy, you have no idea or you dont know how to explain. you hug yourself at contact point but after contact you let go and left arm finish behind
When rec players copy that move it usually hurts their serve bc they don’t stay sideways long enough and they open up too soon. This hurts their ability to hit with speed and topspin.
Hi Igor. Can you take a picture of you holding your racket in a continental and send it to me? ryan@2minutetennis.net. I want to see your grip. I’ll let you know what grip it is. Thanks!
My serve has improved a lot recently but the only way I find that i can hit a good second serve or 'kick' serve is to try not to hit across the back. Instead i try to hit the serve exactly the same as my first serve (which is very flat) BUT I keep my torso very much sideways on to the target which seems to force my racket across the back of the ball without me having to try it. This way I can still get power and depth on my second serve (including loop and swerve) whereas if I try to hit across it the serve is very feeble and often goes in the net. Not sure this is good technique but it workls for me at the moment! My second serve is much more of a weapon now and I can use it to serve out wide or hurt lefties.
Sry, no good advise for me this time. Still hate my serve (although my clubmates hate it even more by quite some margin). Seems like it is only about my ball toss, which definetely sucks. But I will keep this for training my kids and wife, they just started playing.
@@2MinuteTennis Sry to disappoint you. But I apparently overdid it with custumization. Now my arm hurts like hell. Or maybe I mishit too often, clay season in Germany has just begun.
I have stumbled around the court flat serving and doing all sorts of useless amateur mistakes. I play once every 6 months at best, so I'm not bothered. However the analyst in me always quietly wants to correct the physics of my performance this video has single handedly revealed why I can't play tennis for shit and exactly what I need to do to fix it. and its all so obvious when he points it out. -like i play cut and spin shots across the court , why did it never occur to me to play my serves like that? about the only thing i wasnt ballsing up was the bend before the throw thing. this is soooo good. thank you mate
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6:52 does this mean that you disagree with Jeff Salzenstein’s “dirty diaper finish” on the kick serve? Where he says the strings should face your body instead of the side fence on a kick serve.
OMG this lesson was insane! The explanation of 0 to 180 degrees and where we should hit on the pronation and where the palms face was so on point! Toss and bend was great to point out and I’m sure I’m guilty there. No way this lesson should have been free!
It’s not. TH-cam will reward him :)
I am amazed by the amount of DEPTH you give into your analysis in order to leave no stone unturned in what you are teaching. I consider you and Milan Krnjetin of TENFITMEN the best online tennis coaches, BY FAR.
Milan is great. He’s a “buddy” of mine in the online space. I’ve never met him personally but we’ve takes many times on Instagram. Thanks so much!!!
@@2MinuteTennis enjoying the minute of fame you never had in real life in the virtual world with each other?
@@samtrautman6416 hahaha just reading this now. Funny stuff.
this is one of the best explanation serve videos i have ever watched. well done coach
Truly amazing lesson. I love how you proactively know what question the viewers might have. The granularity of this is unparalleled. Kudos!
Wow thank you so much!!!
great whip explanation. McEnroe has beautiful front arm positioning with elbow on tummy at contact. His whole body is very still at contact
Great explanation. I’m working on my serve and this helps. Thanks.
Glad to know the video helped you John
Logical and incontrovertible instruction about the pronation assertion on the serve.
This is pure gold
Wow thank you Shavelle!
Best explanation in pronation ever. Really helpful. Thank you.
this is the best serve lesson series i ever watched
Great tips as always!
Thanks so much dc!!
you are really amazing how well your explantions are about the basic elements in tennis serve
great video. another great player to watch is boris becker. the way he holds his left arm at the end of the serve is just perfect.
Thank you so much for your great tips. Your explanation of pronation is one of the best. Keep up the good work. GBU.
Wow thank you Juggernauts!
Very helpful…thank you!
Excellent. Thank you
Thank you Ryan brilliant explanation. I can see where I am going wrong looking forward to putting your coaching to use in my next training session.
Nice coach I will try this thank you..❤
Great Solid Advice... for real players.
Thank you Doug!
Great video ryan! Having your arm pronate at the end of the serve is so important! Really gives you that pop. Are there drills that could help reinforce that?
Possibly hitting the bouncing the ball up and down by only pronatafiong and keeping your arm in the same place
Have seen this "knock your birthday cap" technique in many TH-cams. And if it's good enough for the Fed, it's definitely good enough for me. Thanks.
Yep!! Thanks so much!
15:45 I find that the tossing arm automatically tucks in if it stayed up longer before. If I drop the tossing arm too early, it will tend to "get out of the way" and not form the X anymore by the time I have hit the ball. But if the tossing arm stays up longer, my body will turn into the arm drop, and then I get the X-like barrier. Everything is connected!
This was just brilliant!! Thank you so much.
These are great videos - thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thank you, and thank you so many times. You are a wonder coach!!!
The birthday hat analogy threw me for a while until I remembered a similar tool from 'Feeltennis' about one continuous motion and a serve trainer with a ball on a string, then I understood what you mean. This helped me visualize the pause in my serve as a negative. I am working on a more fluid serve. Wish me luck
Thank you for your class , master
You are a great communicator and instructor!
Wow thank you so much!!!!
Ryan: Really GREAT video. So insightful and practical. I have one question/observation that I would love to hear your thoughts about. What you say about pronation makes a lot of sense, and the analogy to throwing a football or even baseball (assuming one isn't throwing a curveball) is on point.
However, the point you make about the tossing hand tucking/pulling in at contact in the service motion to help accelerate the racket head speed, which also makes perfect sense, to me is an illustration of how the service is very different from those throwing motions. When throwing a football or baseball the free arm behaves much more like the tennis forehand - i.e., it rotates away, ahead of the throwing arm, to translate torso rotation into speed and power. No one would suggest that when striking a forehand, the free arm should tuck in at contact, although the foregoing logic relating to the serve might beg that question.
What is unique about the tuck-in of the tossing arm in the service motion is that it helps arrest the body rotation (as you correctly point out), thereby accelerating racket speed. I don't know of any other sport where this happens.
So a serve starts out like a baseball or football throw, but then ends very differently. To me this further illustrates why the service motion is uniquely challenging.
What do you think?
I think you’ll really like this video. I’m heading to bed now but will answer you tomorrow at some point. Thanks!! th-cam.com/video/l5LLmDLXyDY/w-d-xo.html
@@2MinuteTennis got it. The video answered my query. Are there other sports where the non-dominant hand plays a reactive braking role? Btw - even in the one handed backhand the non racket arm plays a braking role - in that case by moving in opposition to the racket swing.
Actually -the volleyball spike is remarkably analogous. Most videos I found show the non striking arm either stopping or tucking in, post rotation, to prevent over rotation. Question withdrawn😎
I saw the same misleading serve lesson. When I saw that tip I couldn't believe it. Sometimes the pros when they try to slow down things to explain them they just teach all kind of things that they are not doing. Not to voluntary mislead but due to a lack of analysis about what they teach.
Yep. Thanks for the comment!!
Mouratoglou! It was shocking to hear him say that
@@PuissanceMandataire yep. Same here. I saw him say it to Rune. Did he say it to another student too? If so, do you know which video and do you have the link to it?
@@2MinuteTennis I also saw it in the Rune video. I think it comes up @11:40 in this one as well th-cam.com/video/KuUzLBYMz6g/w-d-xo.html
Useful and quite streight to point, good explanation, very good work this video - complinent from Germany!
I thought it was useful to rotate the body to gain power on serve, at same time i asked myself why i can't fall only with the left leg on the floor. 😄 Thx a lot!
This viedeo wiil help me out, to get better tossing. Thanks a lot.
Insane lesson! Thanks 🙏
Great video, amazing contents, very easy to follow and replicate!
A great video. I am not a big fan of your birthday hat method, but I always enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Thanks so much Simon!!!
I like the birthday hat analogy. Had a big problem where i wasnt swinging racket over my head enough (only over 1 ear, not both ears). Birthday hat method was instant fix mid practice, although i didnt use a birthday hat
Love the whip sound
Another great analysis
Thanks
Wow - #5 I knew nothing about that. I don't think I do it (have never been taught that) but will check tomorrow on the court! And will ensure I'm tucking arm under! 👌
rocking motion (forward back forward) in regards to knee bend
EXCELLENT content in an easy to understand explanation coach Ryan! I know what famous TH-cam coach your talking about, I found it pretty surprising also. I will put your tips to work! 👏👍🎾🎾
as far as coaches go who were your mentors and who inspired you , old school like Vic braden , Dennis Van de meer , Bollettieri? Macci would be in that class as well , I saw some great footage from Oscar Wegner who coached Kuerten to 2 french open titles. Let me know thanks!
I was taught Vic Braden’s info since I was 8.
ENLIGHTEN: to give them more knowledge and greater understanding about something. I feel enlightened every time I watch your videos, man.
it help me a lot improving my serve
This should be the most viewed tennis training TH-cam channel... also, thank god is not, so I keep winning matches ;D
Haha thanks!!
Tnx for the tips.
Wow. I make all these mistakes. Watching from Zambia❤️
what kind of raquet do you have?
Thank you!!!
Good job!
Good video. However you need to dig a little deeper on serve mechanics. forearm pronation is only a quarter of the story. Internal shoulder rotation is the driver.
I have 100’s of serve videos. Type “2MinuteTennis serve” to see how deep I go. Thanks!!!
Ryan: is this how u teaching to use the forehand grip ???😊
Other than that 1st part ; ur physical body is designed by nice tennis skills correctly!
But u didn’t mention the serve is supposed to show the first serve and second serve; is this the second serve?
Ryan, I love these videos so thank you for sharing your insights. I just want to clarify one thing about the continental grip. Doesn’t it inherently put your racket in a “strings slightly down” position? I’m left handed, but I think I understand which bevel is number 2 for me. It seems to me that holding my racket straight out in front of me and then rotating one bevel to the left results in a slightly closed face - or have I completely misunderstood the grip?
Continental grip should be more open compared to the ground than eastern and semi western at the beginning position of the serve.
Right edge is usually in front on a slice but not always. Swinging out to the right with square contact will result in slice spin. No problem with your explanation as that is the norm but technically one can get slice spin with a square racquet face. BTW, although long axis rotation past contact is nice it is far from necessary as shown by Pliskova among others. For many people there is a trade off between accuracy and long axis rotation past contact. It is a natural move and trying to force it can be counterproductive unless a player is obviously holding on to the detriment of their serve. For some people it doesn’t affect their accuracy and it is preferable. Isner and Federer certainly don’t lose any accuracy.
Hi Coach Ryan, I've always been wondering: when serving, does the back leg intentionally kick back or it is just a natural follow up after the serve? When I serve my back leg always goes to the side instead of kicking back as pros do. Thank you!
If your leg is going sideways, you are working against your kinetic chain.
Is it possible to do an inside out serve?
Hello! Super video as Always. The pronation on slice serve. Mouratoglou is teaching the way you mention as incorrect. ;-). This one is complex. I understand the theory. But i would have liked to see a demo. With slow motion. From you of course! Not Roger :). Thanks a lot if it's possible.
I’ve made probably 12 videos showing slow motion pronation on my serve. Simply search on TH-cam “2MinuteTennis pronation”. Thanks!!
Patrick teaches advanced students that have the fundamentals in place. Misleading to say one technically is incorrect and the other is not. Especially depending on the level of the student. See his serve videos where students are not fully coming around as shown here with arms flaring out of control. I get what he’s saying here but again there’s a difference between typical rec players and pros or juniors playing at advanced levels
@@bmanbusee3812 not true. Patrick was teaching a kid ( 10y o maybe).
@@bmanbusee3812 and the boy is not advanced. At least not on the serve. Which is normal at that age. Service motion is not easy to get. Otherwise all the best kids would already master all type of serve. ;)
@@norienor4658 have no idea about what video you’re referring to. Also some start playing at an earlier age than that but I digress. Most of his students are advanced and go pro at some point.
that was good.
Hi Ryan, this is all great and helpful to recreational players (with thanks). But they are still bio mechanics, mostly relating to arm swings being seen mostly at social levels.
When will you make a video about the most fundamental aspect of tennis serve to get real power - the whipping motion and effect?
Once one mastered this concept, the rest are basically given as well. It is not easy to explain and demonstrate. But with your excellent teaching way it will definitely deliver.
thx a lot。It does do me a lot of favor.
¡Gracias!
You are best
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Too great
I agree with all of your assessments except for number five... Even though I do agree with it I have seen Andy Murray do that exact move.... So it's not always an absolute
I don't fully agree for the tossing arm behind. The problem is to throw the arm behind directly, so as you say there's a loss of power by too much body rotation. But it can be done differently ; at impact, the tossing arm is close to the body, then after the end of the pronation, it can leave the body and go behind. You can see it on that good channel 😀 th-cam.com/video/tbxK9Aqy5GY/w-d-xo.html
Im going to me mindful of my racket movement tomorrow and will check if I‘m doing the „birthday hat“. If anyone is bored you could check my serve videos too, thanks 😇
12:37
Again: YES, you can go around the ball from right to left for a slice serve. Actually that exactly IS the slice serve. The other one is an adapted pronated serve, which admittedly is hit almost all of the time by the pro players. That does not discount the slice serve though. The teachings are different and the players reflect that.
you cannot go around the ball for slice. sorry, not possible. feel free to film yourself serving (and even try to go around it as you hit), but you'll see in super slow motion that it's not what happens as you're hitting. There IS some value to trying to do it or feeling like that's what's happening (i've asked students to attempt it before to help them not hit so flat knowing full well that they can't actually curl around the ball). The reason the pros do the pronated version is because that's the actual way it's done. And i can promise you that most pros feel like they're curling around the ball, too...even though they aren't. Thanks for watching!!
whats your surname? what did you accomplish? how qualified are you to give advices here? did you play well?
My name is Ryan Reidy. No I’m not a pro tennis player. I’m certified by the USPTA as an Elite Pro and I teach the Vic Braden/Greatbase systems.
i have the 5 mistakes 😀
You were watching Dominic Thiem too much. His kick serve is excellent that's why he contacts the ball a little bit earlier, but as for the great flat 1st serves I don't think you can contact the ball at 85 as you said, because your toss should be slightly forward, so 85 is impossible.)
Thanks for watching! Though I have no idea what your comment is trying to say.
finally at the end you say the arm goes back but its for show? hahahahahahahaha
I think it’s funny too
Coach is breathing heavily😂🤣
Tennis requires breathing. :)
@@2MinuteTennis been an avid follower! My serves improved a lot! But my second serves are getting worst😟. Any tips. I know its mental….
well, if you are skillful enough to execute an inside-out serve, then a forehand grip is best for your service game😢😅
who would pay you for a zoom lesson man? cant believe it, who are you again?
I’m just a tennis coach Sam
did you just delete my comment? you dont accept critics?
I didn’t delete any comments.
Everything is good except pronation part, biomechanically wrong teaching, 100% golfers elbow guarenteed, pronation should occur naturally and not stop it the same side, pronation up and high not use elbow and bring it down, that harm your a for sure.....
🕺💃👍👍👍🇷🇺🥰🎾
Great explanation on Pronation - keep up the simple analogy and examples.
When an ice skater is spinning with arms out and then pull their arms in, they spin faster because their moment of inertia (resistance to rotation) decreases. Conservation of angular momentum means they spin faster. The same principle applies to serving. When you pull your throw up arm down, tuck it in and finish in the X position described in the video, your moment of inertia decreases and you swing faster. Pull your throw up arm down faster and tuck in faster you swing faster. In simple terms you can only swing as fast as you can pull down and tuck in your throw up arm. Try a few air swings and move your throw up arm down and tuck it in slowly and then swing and pull down and tuck in your throw up arm faster and see what happens to your racquet speed. It will speed up without any apparent effort on your behalf! You should be using both arms to generate racquet speed just like a pitcher in baseball and a fast bowler in cricket using both arms to generate ball speed. But you have to practice to synchronize the motion each arm to get the timing right and create the whip crack he talks about in the video. Check out a video of Ash Barty serving. Her throw up arm goes from being straight up to being tucked in, in the blink of an eye. Similarly Rod Laver back in the day.
Felicitaciones por tan detallada y útil explicación
I have 4/5 of these sins and working hard to fix them. Thanks! Also I recommend watching an entire pro match only watching the pros nondominant hand. You will be blown away at what is happening.
I still struggle with pronation, when I first learned a serve in the 90s we were taught to snap the wrist down. To get more pronation would it be fair to say that you have to let the racket come around the body more during the backswing and then you just have to let pronation happen rather than forcing it?
Thank you coach, since a long time i knew i do something wrong with my service, i was working a lot with my rhytm and a lot of stuff, but i’ve never realized that i flex my knees during my toss. Quick fix and my service is much more fluid and better, because i toss first now, thanks, you are doing good job!
Agree with 1 to 4 , but I have to disagree with the 5. Top players when they finish serve always kick back the non dominant hand. Are you sure about the hugging ?
Not all top players throw the arm back. Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer don’t. There’s no benefit to it. There’s a large benefit to crossing the arms. Look at Nadal and you’ll see he basically hugs himself when serving.
Not a fan of crossing my left arm when I serve either. I fell like my body is being restricted.
Not a fan of swinging my left arm at the back also. Coz when I catch the racket with my left arm it take too long coz it has to travel very far.
I am a fan however of bending my left arm about 45 degrees and positioning it on my side ready to catch my racket and back to a ready position asap.
@@d_man28 That also confused my quite a while. Then I figure our this throwing arm is happen when you use your core to 'press' on the ball at the contact. The non dominant arm are more like squeez out than throw out. However, you don't see that core bent at recreational level a lot and it does not make sense to purposely throw out one's arm.
Thanks!
I so appreciate you supporting me and my channel. thank you for the super thanks Mia!
the left arm goes behind on every first serve of kyrgios and murray look their serve finish ma boy, you have no idea or you dont know how to explain. you hug yourself at contact point but after contact you let go and left arm finish behind
I’m well aware of Murray and nick and their left arms.
This is not a 2 minute tennis, you are talking so long and same thing over and over…. I could easily reduce the video to 5 min to save me 13 min.
You’re welcome for the world class instruction
Thank you... will try once in the court one day. Love your videos and been watching them a lot doublre and singles
you say arm doesnt go behind but every kyrgios and murray serve the arm goes behind. and its NOT for show
When rec players copy that move it usually hurts their serve bc they don’t stay sideways long enough and they open up too soon. This hurts their ability to hit with speed and topspin.
best explanation of pronation I have seen, thanks Ryan
hmm what do you mean by forehand grip I use continetal for the forehand
Hi Igor. Can you take a picture of you holding your racket in a continental and send it to me? ryan@2minutetennis.net. I want to see your grip. I’ll let you know what grip it is. Thanks!
My serve has improved a lot recently but the only way I find that i can hit a good second serve or 'kick' serve is to try not to hit across the back. Instead i try to hit the serve exactly the same as my first serve (which is very flat) BUT I keep my torso very much sideways on to the target which seems to force my racket across the back of the ball without me having to try it. This way I can still get power and depth on my second serve (including loop and swerve) whereas if I try to hit across it the serve is very feeble and often goes in the net. Not sure this is good technique but it workls for me at the moment! My second serve is much more of a weapon now and I can use it to serve out wide or hurt lefties.
Sry, no good advise for me this time. Still hate my serve (although my clubmates hate it even more by quite some margin).
Seems like it is only about my ball toss, which definetely sucks.
But I will keep this for training my kids and wife, they just started playing.
Hey Sebastian. Send me an email of you serving! I’ll make a TH-cam video teaching you exactly how to improve! ryan@2minutetennis.net!
@@2MinuteTennis Sry to disappoint you. But I apparently overdid it with custumization. Now my arm hurts like hell. Or maybe I mishit too often, clay season in Germany has just begun.
Hi Coach Ryan ! I am Ravi from India and love your videos. We play recreationally at our society and your videos are a great hit !! Thanks !
So so helpful. And I just love the way you explain the micro details with so much clarity, no confusion and some sharp humour. Thanks a ton
This guy talks too much
I’m well aware I talk too much. Thanks!!!
Really excellent Ryan.
Thanks so much George!
I have stumbled around the court flat serving and doing all sorts of useless amateur mistakes.
I play once every 6 months at best, so I'm not bothered.
However the analyst in me always quietly wants to correct the physics of my performance
this video has single handedly revealed why I can't play tennis for shit and exactly what I need to do to fix it. and its all so obvious when he points it out.
-like i play cut and spin shots across the court , why did it never occur to me to play my serves like that?
about the only thing i wasnt ballsing up was the bend before the throw thing.
this is soooo good.
thank you mate