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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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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