Chingoo1255
Rookie
After a couple of months doing my serve deconstruction, I've decided I need to start adding leg drive to my serve. I've been serving with just a small knee bend and about the only contribution of legs on my serve is the straightening of my legs when driving racket up to contact. I've been serving and practicing this way as a means to isolate my upper body serve motions while I was relearning my serve.
I went and hit some serves with rudimentary leg loading and it is very awkward for me at the moment. I'm finding that I have a very pronounced waiters serve when I try to incorporate a "jump" into my serve. Without the "jump", I have minimized the waiters serve and am quite happy with my service motions. But I know to move to the next level, I will have to jump or use my leg drive to increase racket head speed and overall power.
So my question is how much more power will jumping into the serve contribute to my serve? Is the gain justifiable to try to add a jump component?
If it matters my level is -3.0 in local Atlanta ultimate tennis. According to my Play PureDrive, my average serve is 69 mph and hi is 77 mph.
I went and hit some serves with rudimentary leg loading and it is very awkward for me at the moment. I'm finding that I have a very pronounced waiters serve when I try to incorporate a "jump" into my serve. Without the "jump", I have minimized the waiters serve and am quite happy with my service motions. But I know to move to the next level, I will have to jump or use my leg drive to increase racket head speed and overall power.
So my question is how much more power will jumping into the serve contribute to my serve? Is the gain justifiable to try to add a jump component?
If it matters my level is -3.0 in local Atlanta ultimate tennis. According to my Play PureDrive, my average serve is 69 mph and hi is 77 mph.