Thx for the comments. How do you fix the water's tray? Cause I don't feel like I'm doing waiters tray, but the vid doesn't lie.
First off, I always knew you were a secret Rafa fan... those pants, 2008 Rafa wants them back!
Onto your serve, dude you have so much potentia! Keep working.
Everyone's mileage varies but this is what I did to crank my serve up to something respectable:
- continental, pistol grip - space between my forefinger and other fingers.
- fingertip toss consistently to around 12:30 - for me what works best is the ball getting only about 1 foot higher that I contact it - not a fan of high tosses but everyone's different.
- contact at the highest point I can reasonably reach. You gotta go up and get it (in your vid your hitting almost a foot lower than if you were hitting at your ideal - that's a lotta margin your giving up.)
- for me the best way to conceptualize the swing was thinking if Indiana Jones cracking his whip - loose arm, Lots of whip action, hitting up high, pronating thru the contact.
- slightly closed face at contact - varies based on your height - taller you are, the more you can hit "down".
-after you do all of the above and have a nice flat serve start incorporating topspin by hitting up on the ball for more margin