Help with serve motion

[FamilyFeud]

Serve (http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/rr25/FEEBUR/?action=view&current=alex.flv)

I'm in desperate need of help.

[Headshotterer]

dont use so much arm!
thats all i have to say

[FamilyFeud]

What does that mean???

[DarthCow]

You have to incorporate more of your body into the shot, not just your swinging arm. (more knee bend, more torso coil etc)

Also i noticed you're moving back behind the baseline after your serve from your momentum.
You really should be moving your weight into the shot and up into the court as a result of your knee bend.

[matchmaker]

USE YOUR LEGS.

Put your feet in a 45 degrees angle on the baseline. And while serving rotate the shoulder.

Use a back-forth movement at the beginning. You place your weight on the front leg, then move back towards the rear leg, at which moment you toss the ball, then you initiate a forward movement again, combined with an upward movement provided by knee bend.

Then on the arm motion, you are lacking follow through. You stop right after the ball leaves the strinbed. Probably because you feel that if you don't you will lack control. You have to try to create control by putting spin on the ball and not being afraid of hitting right through the ball.

Anyway, looks like you already have a little work to do.

[adams_1]

You have to incorporate more of your body into the shot, not just your swinging arm. (more knee bend, more torso coil etc)

Also i noticed you're moving back behind the baseline after your serve from your momentum.
You really should be moving your weight into the shot and up into the court as a result of your knee bend.

This was the first thing I noticed too (along with the missing leg drive)

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[Bungalo Bill]

Serve (http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/rr25/FEEBUR/?action=view&current=alex.flv)

I'm in desperate need of help.

The first thing you have to realize is the serve isnt limited to the upper body. When you toss the ball up and bring your hitting arm up to the ball, that isnt all that should be happening.

The reason you are sliding back after you hit the ball, is because your body wants to go up and forward INTO the court but you are not allowing it to happen.

The baseline should be used as your starting line and you should land two feet into the court toward the direction of your serve.

In order to do that, you must use your legs and body in such a way to do that.

When you toss the ball, you are also preparing the fron side of your body like a pole vaulters pole. It is strectched slightly forward so that you can use this to help you "Snap" or jackknife forward. Your legs are used to generate upward momentum. This all happens while you coil. Once you have done this, the ball should have already been released just higher than the spot you want to meet the ball. Your body then explodes up and forward to make contact with the ball. When it is all said and done, you should have landed in the court.

You must press your feet (I press my toes) against the ground to really get up to the ball. I shift a lot of my weight over my front leg before I go up. So my momentum is going to go forward and up from my motion.

Read this article:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/4221210.html

Watch this video. Look at the action in the lower body and copare it to yours. Look at the reach and stretch in the front side. Watch how all of this allows Andy to send a loose arm into the ball. Without the lower body and your coiling in the serve - the phrase "you are arming the ball" results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLh6D6i44kA&feature=related