How To Perfect Your Continental Grip

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How To Perfect Your Continental Grip

Look, the continental grip simply has to be a big part of your game.

The fundamental grip for the serve, volleys, overhead, slice backhand & forehand, slice approach shots, some 1/2 volleys, drop shots, drop volleys, certain returns of serve, even most lobs requires the continental grip.

If you're still not totally comfortable with this grip, here's a quick and easy tip for you...

Grips explained by Brent. Click here.

OK, I'll admit that was one incredibly simple tip, but I'm telling you, you'd be amazed at how many players walk around between points with something other than the continental grip.

So for this week, and the very next time you're out there on the court, check to see what grip you naturally go to after the point is over.

If you don't automatically go to a continental grip, then start doing so...

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Tennis Tossing Motion - Speed Kills

That's right, too fast of a tossing motion and your serve consistency takes a major hit.

You get zero value for power, spin, and placement control with a fast tossing motion.

A high quality tossing motion is supposed to accomplish 2 main functions.

#1 is to be able to place the ball exactly where you want it to be depending on what kind of serve you plan on playing, and,

#2 a quality tossing motion puts you into an ideal hitting position set up.

If your toss is too fast, guess what, you might get the ball where you want it to be, but the chances of you achieving an on balance hitting position are slim.

Slow it down, find a tempo (a rhythm) in the speed of your arm going up prior to when you release the ball and then maintain that tempo all the way up to your tossing motion finish position.

Your toss has 5 major parts.

1 - Your starting position with your hands

2 - The straightening of your arm as it goes down to your thigh

3 - The upward motion of your arm prior to releasing the ball

4 - The specific release point of the ball

5 - The finish position of your arm at the end of the tossing motion

I like to feel that when I start my arm going up from my thigh, that once I make that initial move up that the speed my arm goes up stays constant until I finally get to the finish position of the toss.

There's a tempo, a contolled speed, with your arm going up and at no point should that speed change, especially when you release the ball at about the top of your head.

A clean arm spped tempo when you toss gives you a much better chance of settling into the ideal hiting position.

If your serve's tossing motion isn't just right, your serve is going to suffer, and guess what, when your serve suffers, normally the rest of your game takes a hit...

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2nd Serve - Maintaining Racket Head Speed

One of the biggest problems we create with our 2nd serve is if we slow the racket down just prior to contact.

For some of us, it's instinctive to slow the racket down to make sure we at least get the 2nd serve in play. It's a push...

A slower racket head through the ball takes away the possibility for quality spin.

With your 2nd serve, you've got two obvious basic challenges. Getting the ball safely up and over the net and then back down inside the service line.

If you have low to no spin, once you get your 2nd over the net, you're then relying totally on gravity to drop your serve into the service box.

That becomes a major opportunity for your opponent.

The key is to maintain, even accelerate, your racket head through the ball to produce a high quality spin that solves both of those challenges.

The spin you produce by hitting up actually curves the ball back down inside the service box...

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Serve Tossing Motion - It's In The Shoulder

My serve tossing motion used to be a mess. I was all over the map in terms of never knowing where my toss was going to actually end up.

I'd look up there and just hope the ball would be somewhere in the vicinity of where I was trying to toss.

My tossing wrist was the problem and consequently I had zero confidence in both my 1st and 2nd serves.

Those days are fortunately long gone for me...

Tom Stow really helped me with the two aspects of my toss. One of them we recently discussed and that was how to hold the ball.

The other fundamental he gave me was to "feel" the ball in my shoulder. Huh...?

That's right, Tom wanted all of us to start the toss with our front shoulder.

And my apologies to my extremely good friend and often doubles partner Steve Cornell for referencing his tossing motion. He knows I mean well...!

So, get out there this week and practice your toss and try to start your motion from your front shoulder allowing your tossing arm to stay straight as you move your arm up to the finish position of the toss.

Also, make sure you read my post below from yesterday...

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The Serve - Raise The Heel - Part 2

Not really a 2nd part, but a clarification of last week's tip...

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Serve - The Importance of the Front Heel

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OK, one body part we rarely associate with a good service motion is specifically your front heel.

When I worked with Tom Stow, Tom liked me to be in my ready position for my serve with my front heel already raised.

I never felt comfortable with it, so we eventually compromised to where I would start with my front foot flat, rock back slightly, and then raise my heel during my tossing motion.

Tom eventually gave in (I'm sure that might have been a first for him!) and he let me develop my heel raise in a way that worked for me.

This is a small but incredibly important aspect of your serve to insure that you get into really good hitting position set up.

In fact for me, and in an upcoming tip, the importance of your front hip coming out under you during your tossing motion is completely related to the timing of your front heel raise.

But for now, let's just tinker a bit on you going out there on the practice court for about 25 practice serves (nothing fancy, just go through your normal service motion and try to be aware if and when you're raising your front heel) and seeing if you can feel what we're talking about here.

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Serve Spin - How to Practice It

How to practice getting the feel for generatating spin on your serve.

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Look, let's forget about some of the funky terms we use for generating spin on the serve such as pronation, release, whatever...

There are a couple of keys to getting better spin on your serve.

A loose continental grip that will help you to naturally swing your racket up the back of the ball will make the ball spin in a specific direction.  Topspin...

Once you get comfortable with the feeling of the loose grip (make it relaxed, if you squeeze too tightly, this will not work for you), then work on that swing path going up and not around the side corner.

Make sure you don't slow down the racket head just prior to contact, in fact, to get really good spin, you'll want to speed up the racket just prior to contact.

Good racket speed for now equates to a relaxed grip tension.

The death grip will certainly kill something.  And that's your ability to impart spin.

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Tennis Serve - Developing Fluidity for Power & Spin

It sometimes just seems so instinctive to try to muscle the serve over...

We get a bit too strong, grip too tightly, and force everything in hopes of getting more and more power and more spin.

It never works...

We need to develop the natural rhythm of the service motion, to allow the natural body mechanics to go through a specific sequence, and the stronger we get, the less we're able to deliver the racket up to and through the ball in a way that gives our serve plenty of power and spin for control.

There is a great drill that can help give you the feel of what the natural fluidity is for your serve.

Below is Chapter 11 from my lesson titled "The 3 Magic Moves of the Tennis Serve".

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