How to Serve With Your Body
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- There are many successful pro servers that have a variety of motions, hopefully the explanations of this video can help you navigate how to get better balance through body fundamentals that can be applied to a variety of service motions.
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Dude this deserves way more recognition - I’ve been looking for a video that actually breaks down the athletic movements of the pros to try and understand how to coil and this is the only video that truly explains it.
Thanks, I've watched all the videos too and always wanted a better explanation lol
I'll be putting out more videos applying biomechanic principles to the groundstrokes too.
@ if you could do your own version of the total serve sequence I’d be all up for that! I’m sure a lot of us would learn from it. Would be really good to hear your lessons on serve contact
@ I'll have to put one out on that, in the meantime, it takes a little bit of practice to get used to having that backward feeling to drive up, but the more comfortable you get at it the better you're able to drive up and the better your contact becomes.
The most amazing explanation about how the body flows during the serve to create a fluid serve motion. Truly the best explanation of the serve motion that I have found among TH-cam coaches.
Thanks! Golf and baseball and quarterback throwing have specific swing instructions, I feel it's time tennis starts being more specific too.
This is the best information ever presented.
What an incredible video. I can't wait to get to the court and teach this to my son. Lately he's just been falling face first into the court and he can't control the flat serve, or kick the ball at all. This is a great way to teach it. Nicely done.
Thanks! Hopefully it gets him serving bigger!
Easy to feel way to get this complex motion . Great explanation
Thanks! Glad you found it easy to understand!
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It is the solid great stuff! As a 4.5 players, it gives so much more reflection than any others stuff.
Thanks! Hopefully it can help level up your game.
Your lessons are always very technical, helpful and original! Do you happen to have a background in dancing or gymnastics or do you use a specific method for teaching tennis biomechanics?
Thanks! I never did dance or gymnastic, but I do like art and I like how they breakdown things into simple shapes for underlying structure and how they see balance. But, I've played a lot of sports too. I like tennis a lot and wish tennis had better coaching, I see so many other sports coaching the swing so much better than tennis, I just want tennis to be better. The most recent videos and the videos I'll be putting out now will be breakdowns or specifics aspects of my swing system for the biomechanics of a swing.
Enjoyed the video. Is there any type counter motion feel such as while the hips are turning forward the racquet is going back like they are going in opposite directions at the same time. Also is the racquet being pulled forward with the unwinding or is moved consciously with the arm.
Thanks! The way I've encountered the counter motion is changing my perception of what I think I'm supposed to be doing on the serve. It doesn't seem right to have a backwards feeling initiating out of the trophy position after the hips start to open, but on video it looks right, the balance feels right, and it really helps the shoulders cartwheel to get the racquet arm to have the upward drive, which is most important.
It also doesn't seem right to think about the racquet arm just driving up, but the rotation of the shoulders out of the coil is getting the racquet to fall back as I'm driving up, so it's never just a push upward. If I've coiled and used the toss arm to open up my chest and allow my hips begin opening to the net, my best serves are when I really emphasize driving up and I just let the racquet falling back happen on its own.
As a right handed server, in order for the head to stay still and not fall to the left it feels like my weight has to go more to the right as I go up. It seems counter when serving, but on video, once again it does what I'm after.
Those are my queues, which may or may not be yours. It is possible thinking of the racquet dropping back is what helps you do what you want.
Hope that helps!
Brilliant - thank you
Great video! Do the hips initiate the coil?
The trophy position has you loading into a coil so the racquet side lat is contracted and the lead tossing arm side lat is stretched. Thinking of the kinetic chain starting from the ground up means that if the legs drive first causing the hips to respond then the coil feeling should briefly contract even more helping with the stretch shortening cycle to get the elastic response for a quick swing. The shoulder may be the main indicator of the stretch shortening cycle to get a fast swing, but it should be just responding to the rest of the body, which is where the coil comes in transferring the energy from the lower body into the upper body.
Am I crazy or is this very similar to the coil and transfer in the shot put throw?
LOL I don't know how to shot put throw, but the video I have coming out tomorrow is about using a medicine ball to load and throw in shot put like position. I've watched javelin throwing videos, but will be checking out some shot put videos now, thanks :)
Look forward to your thoughts! Are you in SoCal? Do you teach at all in-person?
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