Around 0:11, your toss location looked good [not too far to the right, which would cause you to chase it and fall to the right]. But look at your contact point: it's well below the apex of your reach. As a result, you have to bend your arm and scrunch down in order to contact the ball, which I think contributes to your leaning.
What you should be aiming for is to make contact at the apex of the toss for maximum extension. This will allow you to straighten your arm out and thus your body also.
Looks like you may have an eastern fh grip, should be continental or ebh.
Nah, I don't have it that far over. I'm using continental.
I see what you mean. However, my toss is fairly high. I think the apex of my toss would be out of my reach. Should I experiment with lowering the toss/jumping?
Working on flat serve. Noticed that I'm falling sideways on my serve, occasionally, which I'm assuming is because of my toss.
Looks like you may have an eastern fh grip, should be continental or ebh.
You might want to try...eastern backhand then.
The serve s based on throwing. You toss the ball with one hand and throw the racquet at the ball with the other hand with a full, amooth, gradually accelerating throw. You do not employ a proper throwing motion on your serve. I suspect that you have not played a throwing sport. If you have, you are not transferring that skill to your serve.
I recommend staggering the timing of your serve - when you toss the ball keep the racquet pointing down to the ground and, when the ball is in the air, then throw the racquet at the ball. I have found that separating these motions helps to promote a full, smooth throwing motion.
In the mean time, I recommend working on your throwing motion with a football. Throwing a football with a prpoper spiral promotes the same arm pronation used in serving.
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There seems to be a signifant other power loss to, what @S&V-not_dead_yet pointed out, which also adds to the bent and leaning fashion.
Racket is turning to WT-like orientation way before you reach the point of arm becoming fully straight.
The arm doesn’t rotate late, but early, which change the pivot of your racket and racket face from the wrist to your elbow.
Will look some footage on another thread, which is pretty similar to yours in short.
Ok, here is one on the recent topics on the same.
Serve (HELP!) by Dan.
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_fid=21313&share_tid=612246&share_pid=12097503&url=https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?posts/12097503/&share_type=t
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Try to have one motion... you pause like you are swatting a fly.
Forget about the legs, just stand still and try with 1 motion.
Try everything, all feet positions relative to the line.
On the deuce side (you are a lefty), try feet parallel to the line, 45 degrees to it, etc.
See what the differences are.
Adjust your grips accordingly.
Pick one you are comfortable with.
LATER - Add legs later for power. Swing your hips inside the court, it'll force you to jump into the court.
You serve like you're swatting a fly - all floppy and slappy. Try to serve like you're throwing a javelin.
I think the serve is the hardest stroke to master using correct technique (not just lobbing it in) in tennis. Also most important. Mental image I use for warming up and literally also is passing a football with a tight spiral or throwing a curveball (actually a sinker really) where there is very pronounced snapping of wrist and internal shoulder rotation as others have said like throwing. I get sensation that racquet head is mimicking what my hand would be doing in those throws. It’s also a very whiplike motion, slow build up to very quick whipping impact and follow through. Watch Jeff Salzenstein on YouTube. Great teacher IMO.
Yeah ok. Pics worth a thousand words as they say and I think this aptly applies to the serve. Just trying to help OP since he seems like a nice receptive and genuine guy trying to learn.To some extent, I disagree. Yet you need lot of proper, quality reps to master the serve, the hardest part is to understand how you’re supposed to throw the stringbed at the ball properly. The stance and orientation part is the first to get right.
Just like an overhead, virtually impossible to hammer them down niples to the net.
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There seems to be a signifant other power loss to, what @S&V-not_dead_yet pointed out, which also adds to the bent and leaning fashion.
Racket is turning to WT-like orientation way before you reach the point of arm becoming fully straight.
The arm doesn’t rotate late, but early, which change the pivot of your racket and racket face from the wrist to your elbow.
Will look some footage on another thread, which is pretty similar to yours in short.
Ok, here is one on the recent topics on the same.
Serve (HELP!) by Dan.
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_fid=21313&share_tid=612246&share_pid=12097503&url=https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?posts/12097503/&share_type=t
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I think the serve is the hardest stroke to master using correct technique (not just lobbing it in) in tennis. Also most important. Mental image I use for warming up and literally also is passing a football with a tight spiral or throwing a curveball (actually a sinker really) where there is very pronounced snapping of wrist and internal shoulder rotation as others have said like throwing. I get sensation that racquet head is mimicking what my hand would be doing in those throws. It’s also a very whiplike motion, slow build up to very quick whipping impact and follow through. Watch Jeff Salzenstein on YouTube. Great teacher IMO.
also remember that you when you lean back with legs loaded and lookup at the toss, you chop up at the ball, think Peyton manning on a 45 degree tilt throwing football up into the sky. This may feel off but it works and is recommended.
3) Think "pushing forward" into the serve
Did you switch to another racquet, same brand Prince?
I didnt read all posts but whoever wrote that is clueless.
You should NEVER EVER think about PUSHING with your serve, that is a recipe for arming the serve.
The serve is more of a throwing your racquet at the ball.