Great video, enjoyed the fact it felt like we were live on court during a lesson with you. Also the change of scenery adds value and mixes it up, nice one
@@KaruesellHQ yeah it does feel more like we are there when you have one of your students there. I think people online can relate to the mistakes that your student makes during the lesson so it makes it more personal when you correct him and give extra pointers throughout making sure he does each step/drill correctly. good video.
@@KaruesellHQhow can I make sure I don’t bring in the chest too much? And how can I make sure that in the quick pronation drill I am not just hitting the ball down instead of pronating at the highest point (how do I make sure I am hitting at the highest point)? Love your videos btw!
great video coach, no fancy editing not even one slomo but you have explained it so intelligently throughout as if I'm watching a slomo. thank you its like a actual lesson for the viewers
This is one of my favorite videos you have made Karue. It has helped tune up my serve again. I am a 5'6" player in his 40s returning to the game after a long break. I would love a serve video for the older and shorter players out there :D
great vid karue! I love the fact that this is unedited and you actually show your student making mistakes and telling him what he did wrong. This is more valuable than an instructor hitting perfect serves because you learn how to correct yourself when you actually make the same mistakes.
1:30 Throw up ball drill Acceleration 2:22 Pronation drill Accelerate up 4:44 Chest up 6:13 Racquet head speed drill 7:17 Serve without using legs 8:27 Serve tempo 9:02 Loose shoulders 9:27 Allowing body into the court 9:39 One leg drill
Another great video, with lots of original content. I started using your warm up routine with Osaka in the past few weeks and it has transformed my play. Thanks!
Watching this again….I came across it a few days ago and have used it as a warmup and drill progression the past two days and I am seeing really nice results! One thing I noticed was that the abbreviated motion from the trophy position has also helped me improve my toss consistency in the full service motion! Wasn’t expecting that benefit. Also, it looks cool when I bomb serves with what looks like an effortless motion :) And finally…the back leg only drill is really quite challenging! Well done!
Great Stuff Karue. I love how pros can have a solid business teaching tennis in person and online even if they don't make the big tour. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I‘d love to see a video on how to warm up your serve just before a match. I often do not have enough time to practice my serve right before the match and have problems with my serve during my first service games.
Your video provides the most executable advice and in the most simplistic way. Im hooked and have already found success today with picking up the ball at the highest contact point, and with my footwork at catching the ball early. Great job man!
This is SO GOOD, I took notes!! Can't wait to try this out next time I'm out hitting. I always send the ball long, and I know its because I'm not relaxing my arm/wrist. I reset by doing figure 8s with the racket through the serve motion, then tossing a few balls and letting my racket flow through contact--the ball drops in every time. Then when I go back to the full serve motion, I'm able to get a lot more power with less effort. Westly is tall, so I don't feel so bad, lol. It's just mechanics. Love the new HQ cams too!!!
Love the drills! All of them are great. I’ve never seen the one keg drill before. I grew up throwing a football daily so this really resonates. Thanks!
Thanks Karue! I have been experiencing some inner elbow tendon pain as well and then after making adjustments now tricep tendon pain when practicing serving. I will try these drills to strengthen my shoulder and mechanics..
Don't forget to massage and release your biceps tension after tennis sessions. I experienced inner elbow (golfers elbow) pain for years, untill I realized it was bicep tension/shortening that caused it.
Well Richard, you need to workout your internal rotation shoulder muscle and external rotation shoulder muscle by doing some eccentric exercises. The drills will fix your mechanics but like any sport , they will become overused so you have to work them out outside tennis for them to last. Its a constant battle to keep up with exercise combine with practice drills that work on the mechanics. Just dont want you to think that the good mechanics is all you need to avoid injury. Thats just not true.. I would challenge anyone to prove me wrong. Thats why all sport have a work out sessions and also practice.
Another good video man. It's nice to see coaching on TH-cam emphasise tennis is first and foremost about throwing from the shoulder. Only thing missing is an exercise for the ball toss, which is what gets most people (myself included).
Great stuff! I like that you use two camera (high and normal) angles to show the same motion on serves. Very few coaches in youtube are using more than one camera.
Grear serving drills and advise about "snapping the serve" at the highest contact point instead of the dreaded "push motion". I'd love for you to talk about the "tossing arm" as simple as it seems many players have poor toss consistency and placement, it's also a huge key to serving well. Your serving arm has to react to what you do with the toss. Can you show any drills for tossing the ball and getting the timing right along with the serving arm? Cheers, great videos and serving motion!
One interesting thing comparing your student's motion and yours is that he tosses the ball higher than you do, and I think he tosses it too high. When you do it, the ball peaks very close to your contact point (the ball stays within the screen), and so it stays in that hitting window longer. Your student tosses it much higher than his contact point (the ball goes off the screen), so he has to catch a ball that is going fast (and accelerating) towards the ground, making it difficult to have a consistent contact point, and therefore ending up pushing too often instead of snapping.
@@KaruesellHQ agree, overall his technique is nice and fluid but i really think contolling that toss is going to help him sync his nice upper body motion and his legs. it looks like he loads a lot with his legs but his extension towards snapping up at contact is a bit mistimed.
Just recently I was searching your videos for serve tutorials because I've been struggling with consistency especially as a weekend warrior. To my surprise there was none and I think you are such a great server. Keep em coming, I needed this!
@@KaruesellHQ actually wasn't your serve one of your more average skills in tennis? I like your theory on throwing the football in the US and think to learn to throw it better would help you. I think the other drills here have some issues to address that could make them more functional, like when you adjusted the football to a high throw makes it better for serving.
Great video as usual. You and your pupil both have the elbow joint at 90 degrees and you seem to supinate (which makes the racquet move above head, and the racquet drop is done from a shoulder stretch, instead of arm move as people are led to believe. When your elbow moves around, which moves the shoulder and then extend fully on your arms do you pronate. A video of this will be perfect to show breakdown.
Muchas gracias por el vídeo, aprendí cómo corregir la carga sobre la pierna izquierda! Muchas gracias por el tiempo de explicar con detalle el servicio.
Oh my god finally somebody who understands how throwing a football can improve your serve. I was a former pitcher in baseball and always liked playing catch with a football (hand egg) just for fun. And wouldn’t you know my serve is way better than it should be for somebody my size.
I watching from Kuala Lumpur. Serve has been my problem . I hit it as hard as i can , but the impact is just like a push , on my 1st serve . My 2nd serve , i slow down the speed just to get ball in This is a good video , i will try to implement this technic , maybe i can improve.
Such a great drill I initially saw about 5 years ago by Doug King. Since then, I’ve seen it demonstrated about a half dozen times by various high-level coaches. The only problem is that I can’t do it. Not even close. I understand the importance of a high-con tat point and staying closed without opening up too early and keeping the lower body quiet to emphasize the arm motion. I know about getting the toss to arc a little to the left and I try to keep my arm as loose as possible as I accelerate up through the contact. I still can’t do it. I can’t get that “pop”. I have cried in the courts out of frustration. I have rewatched the videos hundreds of times. I have prayed to God. I cried some more and all I have to show after literally hundreds of hours and thousands of balls is a garbage push with a useless slice and no pop. Can you please help me. Please. I really love this game, but I have had such a hard rind learning it. My forehand is unpredictable and sails long all the time. I don’t really have a backhand. I can’t volley because as soon as I run to the net, the ball just passes me. I’ve been playing for 6 years and I’m only a 2.25. I’m 46 years old and not althketic at all, but I’m not obese. I’m just a bad athlete and that makes me so sad. Any advice that you give me, I will do. Promise. You seem like a good guy. Thanks for your time and your wonderful videos. ps. I can’t throw a ball. From the baseline, I cant throw a tennis ball over the net. I’m very embarrassed.
Hey there I feel you. Though I do take pride in how I have worked on my athleticism and technique, there are things in tennis that I just don't get, at least not as quickly as other people. What I realized after my frustrations (which almost made me quit tennis all together) is that learning doesn't necessarily mean effort. Of course usually more hours on the court or more sweat shed equate to more progress, but that's far from the full story. Sometimes after a plateau, I realized that I didn't gain a ton of new abilities but rather figured out how to apply the right skills at the right time. Other times I found out that I simply had the wrong idea about how something should be done. I imagine that my experience is pretty applicable. Tennis is so complicated, so it makes sense that there isn't a straightforward path towards success. Keep going.
Nice video. Can u pls make one on practical tips to improve the overhead.. esp smashes in dubs where we don't hv time and need to hit the ball straight from the air w.o allowing it to drop
Ach. It looks so inviting from cold, rainy Washington state. I'm 100% certain my technique, and not the temperature, keeps me from hitting the big serve. Mine bounce twice before hitting the back wall, even if the first bounce is a slide on a wet court. Don't have a football, but will try your progressions. Thanks, dude
Hi. Let me start saying I love your teaching. Can u please make a video on learning to serve? I had been been playing for lest that a yr and I think serve has been the hardest to learn. Thx in advance
Thanks for this lesson. Have you measured your and your student's serving speeds with different practice phases? They seem to be quite fast even from racket starting above head.
what is the picture that you have in your mind regarding - shoulder direction and rotation, - swing path, - contact point height, - contact point (with the strings) location on the racquet head, - contact location on the ball when (as right hander) serving: - flat to the T (AD or DE court) - slice out wide (@DE court) - slice to the T (@AD court). - Kick serve (to T @DE, Wide @AD)
Karue, did u see that recent footage of monfils in offseason training, in which he did a similar serve warmup/progression? He exemplified a lot of what you did, except the one legged serves, he did maintaining balance all on one leg, which seemed very hard.
Thanks so much for all of your amazing content! It's the best channel for a 4.0 player like me who was bumped up a couple of years ago to 4.5. Quick question: I love the drill on the ad side with the can on the short side. Where should I place the can if I want to work on the deuce side?
Throwing a football probably helps increase dynamic shoulder external rotation ROM. The weight at just under 1 lb. is enough to have an effect but not enough to have much risk. Some pitchers will throw a 2 lb. ball to get the effect but there is risk involved.
So much of the quality of the serve, specially 1st serves, is directly related to the quality of the toss. When the technique is already locked and loaded the toss will always remain the only variable. Most tennis pros focus a lot on the motion of the hitting arm of the student and neglect the toss. Abraço
Thanks for the instruction, Karue! What is video setup? I saw you adjusting the camera from the phone. Hence interested as will help me record matches better. Thank you.
Great lesson! Very interesting to see that a no-jump, and one-leg serve are very fast too. I'd estimate they were about 85% the speed of your full serve, which is probably still >100mph.
Great tips but one other tip I would say is do not hold racket too hard.Hold it gently to the trophy position and than when you start accelerating than you can hold it harder.If you hold it too hard even before you start serving you will lose speed and your acceleration would not be as fast as if you hold it gently.
Yes youre correct. But id say the Americans' *if they have good serves it is due to baseball; which is more popular (Slice = slider; Kick serve = curveball etc.). The overhand throwing motion. Your football throw needs work. For one; keep a strong "Braced" front side (like tennis); Second: the the balls' nose needs to flip over. Meaning the front tip of the ball has to point to opposite way before turning over (like a serve; the racquet needs to point down behind the back; before pointing-whiping up.) Third, if you want to QB good, the index finger needs to be the last finger that comes off the ball. Which I think is an interesting point: After watching Fed backhand, and seeing his string-bow use of his back index fingers on the handle (pulling back and creating counter tension); I am now realizing the truth of finger tension in tennis; and possibly in all "throwing" mechanics. And where that pressure of the fingers can have drastic affects on the racquet speed. Or the football rotation.
A good video idea for you would be to work with Winston Du on his serve. He could really improve his serve with all of the things you talk about in this video. He must not be too far from you if you played a match together
These are FANTASTIC cues. My serve really started to gain some power once I realized how much a serve is like throwing a football. Honestly most of the serves that I observe from other players don't lead enough with the shoulder so they are giving away power with poor technique. They get into the trophy position but don't rotate their elbow in the direction that they want to serve.
Really appreciate this video! Need to definitely do the service line drill to relax my shoulder lol How often would you recommend a serious player work on their serve?
my first coach taught me serve at the mid-court + no legs push as well. It's my fault. I made bad habits trying to copy the pros. I notice both of them toss the ball at 12. This is the optimal position for power serve. I used to toss at 1 and ended up slicing = no power at all. At the worst, I could only "push" it. If I didn't double-fault, then the opponent pushed me around and won the point anyways = very frustrating. Thanks for the video.
great channel and video!!! can I ask you what gear are you using in this video. I know you like the vcore 95, is this one a 95 or 98? and what string are you uisng with how many libs did you reccomend for a 95 or 98. I'm in an intermediate level. Thanks in advance for your tips
When hitting this first serve should you hit as flat as you can or should you try and add just a bit of spin to control the serve? If I try to hit it perfectly flat I feel like I get easy power but I`am not always making a lot of 1st serves in. Should I feel like I am adding a bit of topspin with the help of my legs or should I just focus more on the angle of the racket face at the moment of contact to improve my percentage? Great video, thanks!
Football throw wasn't that bad, but...hand further back on the ball, and a higher release point. Ring finger on the second seam, spread index finger and pinkie, ball about ear level, up from there, and then snap wrist/pronate down (ideally timed with an upper body pivot). But hey, cool that someone who never came near it as a kid is able to see the connection for tennis.
Throw the 🏈 with the same loose motion you use for your serve then you'll have nice form on your 🏈 throw and it will transfer over to your serve. .. no charge for the tip
Thanks for the great lesson. However I think you should mention FEEL THE EDGE of the racket in all motions. You can’t be the advance player if you can’t FEEL THE EDGE!
Usefull stuff to warmup with. fyi you talk about nice and relax swing w/o legs in drill #3 and yours student is doing all of his serves legs lov drop and sounds of his body asuming he is highly tensed.
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As a former collegiate coach. Hands down. Best serve video lesson I have ever seen. Well done.
Great video, enjoyed the fact it felt like we were live on court during a lesson with you. Also the change of scenery adds value and mixes it up, nice one
Glad to hear you liked the format! Will make more similar ones in the future
@@KaruesellHQ yeah it does feel more like we are there when you have one of your students there. I think people online can relate to the mistakes that your student makes during the lesson so it makes it more personal when you correct him and give extra pointers throughout making sure he does each step/drill correctly. good video.
@@KaruesellHQ I was doing the one legged drill instead on the front leg balancing (harder still).
@@KaruesellHQhow can I make sure I don’t bring in the chest too much? And how can I make sure that in the quick pronation drill I am not just hitting the ball down instead of pronating at the highest point (how do I make sure I am hitting at the highest point)? Love your videos btw!
How did you read my mind? I've been trying to figure out a more effective way to improve my serve, and here comes your video! Thank you so much!
Nice!
I thought the same idea haha. An amazing explanation, fluid dynamic and easy comprehension
great video coach, no fancy editing not even one slomo but you have explained it so intelligently throughout as if I'm watching a slomo. thank you its like a actual lesson for the viewers
thank you for the kind words!
This is one of my favorite videos you have made Karue. It has helped tune up my serve again. I am a 5'6" player in his 40s returning to the game after a long break. I would love a serve video for the older and shorter players out there :D
Great breakdown, especially on 1) getting shoulder 'out' to ensure pronation and 2)the weight on legs to get the 'push' on follow through.
great vid karue! I love the fact that this is unedited and you actually show your student making mistakes and telling him what he did wrong. This is more valuable than an instructor hitting perfect serves because you learn how to correct yourself when you actually make the same mistakes.
This video transformed my serve. Great drills and very simple easy to understand instructions
1:30 Throw up ball drill
Acceleration
2:22
Pronation drill
Accelerate up
4:44
Chest up
6:13
Racquet head speed drill
7:17
Serve without using legs
8:27
Serve tempo
9:02
Loose shoulders
9:27
Allowing body into the court
9:39
One leg drill
This is great! You emphasize the highest contact point and that’s such an ignored point! Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful!
@@KaruesellHQ will put these to work on regular basis!
Another great video, with lots of original content. I started using your warm up routine with Osaka in the past few weeks and it has transformed my play. Thanks!
Yes! Happy to hear
Watching this again….I came across it a few days ago and have used it as a warmup and drill progression the past two days and I am seeing really nice results! One thing I noticed was that the abbreviated motion from the trophy position has also helped me improve my toss consistency in the full service motion! Wasn’t expecting that benefit.
Also, it looks cool when I bomb serves with what looks like an effortless motion :)
And finally…the back leg only drill is really quite challenging!
Well done!
Great Stuff Karue. I love how pros can have a solid business teaching tennis in person and online even if they don't make the big tour. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I appreciate that!
Serving without using the legs is my specialty 🏆
Same here. Fortunately i’m built like a brick shithouse.
Brilliant lesson Karue. Im coming back from injury and will be reworking my serve...this is amazing advice I'll be sure to use it!!
I‘d love to see a video on how to warm up your serve just before a match. I often do not have enough time to practice my serve right before the match and have problems with my serve during my first service games.
I want a serve like that. It would make my tennis so much more enjoyable. Good video.
The one-leg serve drill was very useful. Thank you
Best serve lesson ever for big serve!
Your video provides the most executable advice and in the most simplistic way. Im hooked and have already found success today with picking up the ball at the highest contact point, and with my footwork at catching the ball early. Great job man!
This is SO GOOD, I took notes!! Can't wait to try this out next time I'm out hitting. I always send the ball long, and I know its because I'm not relaxing my arm/wrist. I reset by doing figure 8s with the racket through the serve motion, then tossing a few balls and letting my racket flow through contact--the ball drops in every time. Then when I go back to the full serve motion, I'm able to get a lot more power with less effort. Westly is tall, so I don't feel so bad, lol. It's just mechanics. Love the new HQ cams too!!!
Dear Sir, absolutely fantastic. The ability to see what you say and incorporate this into my game.
Love the drills! All of them are great. I’ve never seen the one keg drill before. I grew up throwing a football daily so this really resonates. Thanks!
Cool! throwing a football is really helpful, I recommend it to everyone !
I will have to try the one keg drill but not sure I could pull that off, that’s a lot of beer 😂
Great video! I am suffering a lot to get a good serve, it is my worst shot. These tips are really helpful.
Thanks Karue! I have been experiencing some inner elbow tendon pain as well and then after making adjustments now tricep tendon pain when practicing serving. I will try these drills to strengthen my shoulder and mechanics..
Don't forget to massage and release your biceps tension after tennis sessions. I experienced inner elbow (golfers elbow) pain for years, untill I realized it was bicep tension/shortening that caused it.
@@miguelbarahona6636 Thanks for the tip!
Well Richard, you need to workout your internal rotation shoulder muscle and external rotation shoulder muscle by doing some eccentric exercises. The drills will fix your mechanics but like any sport , they will become overused so you have to work them out outside tennis for them to last. Its a constant battle to keep up with exercise combine with practice drills that work on the mechanics. Just dont want you to think that the good mechanics is all you need to avoid injury. Thats just not true.. I would challenge anyone to prove me wrong. Thats why all sport have a work out sessions and also practice.
The vibes of Karue is great ! Relaxed guy. Thanks for the video though.
Another good video man.
It's nice to see coaching on TH-cam emphasise tennis is first and foremost about throwing from the shoulder.
Only thing missing is an exercise for the ball toss, which is what gets most people (myself included).
This concept is soo important! Thanks for explaining it and even making a video of it.
The second drill helped me tremendously to pronate as well as hit high and out. AMAZING Thank You!!
Great stuff! I like that you use two camera (high and normal) angles to show the same motion on serves. Very few coaches in youtube are using more than one camera.
Gotta stay ahead of the competition haha
@@KaruesellHQ your high quality demo (both technique and video) is the reason I subscribed. Thanks!
More material like this please. Definitely good stuff. Thank you
Amazing stuff, going to start incorporating this before my tournaments. Would be interested in your second serve drill progression as well
It is coming
the way you format all your videos is unique compared to others. my favorite tennis youtuber
Best serve instruction/drill vid ever
This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks.
Fun seeing you work with one of your students. Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
Grear serving drills and advise about "snapping the serve" at the highest contact point instead of the dreaded "push motion". I'd love for you to talk about the "tossing arm" as simple as it seems many players have poor toss consistency and placement, it's also a huge key to serving well. Your serving arm has to react to what you do with the toss. Can you show any drills for tossing the ball and getting the timing right along with the serving arm? Cheers, great videos and serving motion!
Love your awesome channel. You're an outstanding teacher.
Great advice! Numbers 2 and 3 👍
Excellent course! One of its kind!
One interesting thing comparing your student's motion and yours is that he tosses the ball higher than you do, and I think he tosses it too high. When you do it, the ball peaks very close to your contact point (the ball stays within the screen), and so it stays in that hitting window longer. Your student tosses it much higher than his contact point (the ball goes off the screen), so he has to catch a ball that is going fast (and accelerating) towards the ground, making it difficult to have a consistent contact point, and therefore ending up pushing too often instead of snapping.
Yes! Working on that, I want his toss to be lower
@@KaruesellHQ agree, overall his technique is nice and fluid but i really think contolling that toss is going to help him sync his nice upper body motion and his legs. it looks like he loads a lot with his legs but his extension towards snapping up at contact is a bit mistimed.
Very nice Especially like the analogy to football throw
Thank you - happy you enjoyed it
Great lesson. Will definitely try those steps. Thanks.
Just recently I was searching your videos for serve tutorials because I've been struggling with consistency especially as a weekend warrior. To my surprise there was none and I think you are such a great server. Keep em coming, I needed this!
Yes just getting started with the serve videos! More to come
@@KaruesellHQ actually wasn't your serve one of your more average skills in tennis? I like your theory on throwing the football in the US and think to learn to throw it better would help you. I think the other drills here have some issues to address that could make them more functional, like when you adjusted the football to a high throw makes it better for serving.
this is great! I tried this in practice today, served so much better. Thank you so much!
That’s great to hear 👍🏼
Great video as usual.
You and your pupil both have the elbow joint at 90 degrees and you seem to supinate (which makes the racquet move above head, and the racquet drop is done from a shoulder stretch, instead of arm move as people are led to believe. When your elbow moves around, which moves the shoulder and then extend fully on your arms do you pronate.
A video of this will be perfect to show breakdown.
thank you! Happy we could help
One of best explanations ! Tks Rue
Thank you 👍🏼
Awesome serve video!
AS ALWAYSSSS THANKYOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TUTORIALS :)
Great serve progressions, mate!
Muchas gracias por el vídeo, aprendí cómo corregir la carga sobre la pierna izquierda! Muchas gracias por el tiempo de explicar con detalle el servicio.
Oh my god finally somebody who understands how throwing a football can improve your serve. I was a former pitcher in baseball and always liked playing catch with a football (hand egg) just for fun. And wouldn’t you know my serve is way better than it should be for somebody my size.
Can you do a detailed video of kick serve technique? I'm so close but not quite there yet!
Will add that to our list!
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you it is so real no fake thank again for making this video
I watching from Kuala Lumpur.
Serve has been my problem . I hit it as hard as i can , but the impact is just like a push , on my 1st serve . My 2nd serve , i slow down the speed just to get ball in
This is a good video , i will try to implement this technic , maybe i can improve.
Such a great drill I initially saw about 5 years ago by Doug King. Since then, I’ve seen it demonstrated about a half dozen times by various high-level coaches. The only problem is that I can’t do it. Not even close. I understand the importance of a high-con tat point and staying closed without opening up too early and keeping the lower body quiet to emphasize the arm motion. I know about getting the toss to arc a little to the left and I try to keep my arm as loose as possible as I accelerate up through the contact. I still can’t do it. I can’t get that “pop”. I have cried in the courts out of frustration. I have rewatched the videos hundreds of times. I have prayed to God. I cried some more and all I have to show after literally hundreds of hours and thousands of balls is a garbage push with a useless slice and no pop. Can you please help me. Please. I really love this game, but I have had such a hard rind learning it. My forehand is unpredictable and sails long all the time. I don’t really have a backhand. I can’t volley because as soon as I run to the net, the ball just passes me. I’ve been playing for 6 years and I’m only a 2.25. I’m 46 years old and not althketic at all, but I’m not obese. I’m just a bad athlete and that makes me so sad. Any advice that you give me, I will do. Promise. You seem like a good guy. Thanks for your time and your wonderful videos.
ps. I can’t throw a ball. From the baseline, I cant throw a tennis ball over the net. I’m very embarrassed.
Hey there I feel you. Though I do take pride in how I have worked on my athleticism and technique, there are things in tennis that I just don't get, at least not as quickly as other people. What I realized after my frustrations (which almost made me quit tennis all together) is that learning doesn't necessarily mean effort. Of course usually more hours on the court or more sweat shed equate to more progress, but that's far from the full story. Sometimes after a plateau, I realized that I didn't gain a ton of new abilities but rather figured out how to apply the right skills at the right time. Other times I found out that I simply had the wrong idea about how something should be done. I imagine that my experience is pretty applicable. Tennis is so complicated, so it makes sense that there isn't a straightforward path towards success. Keep going.
These are great tips. Thank you.
Great video quality!
I would love a video on the kick serve as well!
Great Video! Love it ! Thank you!
Nice video. Can u pls make one on practical tips to improve the overhead.. esp smashes in dubs where we don't hv time and need to hit the ball straight from the air w.o allowing it to drop
Ach. It looks so inviting from cold, rainy Washington state. I'm 100% certain my technique, and not the temperature, keeps me from hitting the big serve. Mine bounce twice before hitting the back wall, even if the first bounce is a slide on a wet court. Don't have a football, but will try your progressions. Thanks, dude
Happy to help!
Hi. Let me start saying I love your teaching. Can u please make a video on learning to serve? I had been been playing for lest that a yr and I think serve has been the hardest to learn. Thx in advance
Thank you!
Thanks for this lesson. Have you measured your and your student's serving speeds with different practice phases? They seem to be quite fast even from racket starting above head.
what is the picture that you have in your mind regarding
- shoulder direction and rotation,
- swing path,
- contact point height,
- contact point (with the strings) location on the racquet head,
- contact location on the ball
when (as right hander) serving:
- flat to the T (AD or DE court)
- slice out wide (@DE court)
- slice to the T (@AD court).
- Kick serve (to T @DE, Wide @AD)
Karue, did u see that recent footage of monfils in offseason training, in which he did a similar serve warmup/progression? He exemplified a lot of what you did, except the one legged serves, he did maintaining balance all on one leg, which seemed very hard.
I did not! Will look into it
Thank you!!
Very useful drills. The one with one leg is really complicated. Plis a video of the timing between the toss, the backswing and the legs.
You’re a good coach 🙂
Thanks so much for all of your amazing content! It's the best channel for a 4.0 player like me who was bumped up a couple of years ago to 4.5. Quick question: I love the drill on the ad side with the can on the short side. Where should I place the can if I want to work on the deuce side?
Throwing a football probably helps increase dynamic shoulder external rotation ROM. The weight at just under 1 lb. is enough to have an effect but not enough to have much risk. Some pitchers will throw a 2 lb. ball to get the effect but there is risk involved.
So much of the quality of the serve, specially 1st serves, is directly related to the quality of the toss. When the technique is already locked and loaded the toss will always remain the only variable. Most tennis pros focus a lot on the motion of the hitting arm of the student and neglect the toss. Abraço
Agreed. When my toss is right, everything else falls into place.
Federer said it. The most important part in a good serve is the toss.
Thanks for the instruction, Karue! What is video setup? I saw you adjusting the camera from the phone. Hence interested as will help me record matches better. Thank you.
I’d love to know too!
Ótimo vídeo, obrigado por compartilhar seus conhecimentos!
Damn! this is super helpful. thank you
Great Video. Could you please do one for the second serve too? Getting more spin to the ball
Great lesson! Very interesting to see that a no-jump, and one-leg serve are very fast too. I'd estimate they were about 85% the speed of your full serve, which is probably still >100mph.
Great tips but one other tip I would say is do not hold racket too hard.Hold it gently to the trophy position and than when you start accelerating than you can hold it harder.If you hold it too hard even before you start serving you will lose speed and your acceleration would not be as fast as if you hold it gently.
Yes youre correct. But id say the Americans' *if they have good serves it is due to baseball; which is more popular (Slice = slider; Kick serve = curveball etc.). The overhand throwing motion.
Your football throw needs work. For one; keep a strong "Braced" front side (like tennis); Second: the the balls' nose needs to flip over. Meaning the front tip of the ball has to point to opposite way before turning over (like a serve; the racquet needs to point down behind the back; before pointing-whiping up.)
Third, if you want to QB good, the index finger needs to be the last finger that comes off the ball. Which I think is an interesting point:
After watching Fed backhand, and seeing his string-bow use of his back index fingers on the handle (pulling back and creating counter tension); I am now realizing the truth of finger tension in tennis; and possibly in all "throwing" mechanics. And where that pressure of the fingers can have drastic affects on the racquet speed. Or the football rotation.
A good video idea for you would be to work with Winston Du on his serve. He could really improve his serve with all of the things you talk about in this video. He must not be too far from you if you played a match together
Obrigado 🎾🏆🙏
dude ur legit. more vids pls. would you say you are a usta 5.5?
I am a former top 400 ATP player and collegiate player at UCLA.. I’d say I eat 5.5 players for breakfast hahah
Karue was a ranked pro player and his day job is as the hitting partner for a multiple grand-slam winner, lol. He is much much better than a 5.5
These are FANTASTIC cues. My serve really started to gain some power once I realized how much a serve is like throwing a football. Honestly most of the serves that I observe from other players don't lead enough with the shoulder so they are giving away power with poor technique. They get into the trophy position but don't rotate their elbow in the direction that they want to serve.
Exactly
The football toss is genius.
Do you have tips on how to consciously tuck the off serving arm? My left hand always flails to the side
Really appreciate this video! Need to definitely do the service line drill to relax my shoulder lol
How often would you recommend a serious player work on their serve?
17:41 - Why hitting the ball at the highest contact point is important
can you do a video on ball toss as well? i struggle with every part of my serve....
Ross can be very tricky indeed - will make a video about that in the future
my first coach taught me serve at the mid-court + no legs push as well. It's my fault. I made bad habits trying to copy the pros. I notice both of them toss the ball at 12. This is the optimal position for power serve. I used to toss at 1 and ended up slicing = no power at all. At the worst, I could only "push" it. If I didn't double-fault, then the opponent pushed me around and won the point anyways = very frustrating. Thanks for the video.
Do you provide coaching to adults recreational players? I would like take some coaching from you
great channel and video!!! can I ask you what gear are you using in this video. I know you like the vcore 95, is this one a 95 or 98? and what string are you uisng with how many libs did you reccomend for a 95 or 98. I'm in an intermediate level. Thanks in advance for your tips
Making it look so easy 😂😂😂 ridiculous. Love your site, soo informative and helpful 👍
When hitting this first serve should you hit as flat as you can or should you try and add just a bit of spin to control the serve? If I try to hit it perfectly flat I feel like I get easy power but I`am not always making a lot of 1st serves in.
Should I feel like I am adding a bit of topspin with the help of my legs or should I just focus more on the angle of the racket face at the moment of contact to improve my percentage?
Great video, thanks!
Football throw wasn't that bad, but...hand further back on the ball, and a higher release point. Ring finger on the second seam, spread index finger and pinkie, ball about ear level, up from there, and then snap wrist/pronate down (ideally timed with an upper body pivot).
But hey, cool that someone who never came near it as a kid is able to see the connection for tennis.
Throw the 🏈 with the same loose motion you use for your serve then you'll have nice form on your 🏈 throw and it will transfer over to your serve. .. no charge for the tip
Great video, some question about off arm. Some people prefer tuck in so accelerate serving arm, what’s your take? Thank you
Thanks for the great lesson. However I think you should mention FEEL THE EDGE of the racket in all motions. You can’t be the advance player if you can’t FEEL THE EDGE!
Usefull stuff to warmup with. fyi you talk about nice and relax swing w/o legs in drill #3 and yours student is doing all of his serves legs lov drop and sounds of his body asuming he is highly tensed.