My ball toss and serve become more consistent...

[guanzishou]

...after I consciously do this:

1. My body and face are facing towards the side fence on the right side (I'm right handed). My left foot is parallel with the baseline. I'm not sure but maybe my front body is also slightly facing the back fence during the serve motion.... Just slightly...

2. I toss the ball with my straight left arm gently sideways, like a pendulum, with my shoulder as the axis. Because my body is facing the side fence, when I toss the ball sideways towards the left side of my body, the ball is automatically being tossed inside or into the court, thus it forces me to hit my serve with my body going forward slightly, into the court.

I found that these two key points really improved my toss and serve.. I hit more and more first serves in. I now often have a game in which I do not have to hit a second serve . I feel my toss is more consistent now.

 

[Fintft]

I just been taught to focus on getting the racquet into the trophy position and not on the toss: in other words toss into the swing, not swing into the toss.

Andbuding DT/UT with a slow, high toss...

 

[toth]

...after I consciously do this:

1. My body and face are facing towards the side fence on the right side (I'm right handed). My left foot is parallel with the baseline. I'm not sure but maybe my front body is also slightly facing the back fence during the serve motion.... Just slightly...

2. I toss the ball with my straight left arm gently sideways, like a pendulum, with my shoulder as the axis. Because my body is facing the side fence, when I toss the ball sideways towards the left side of my body, the ball is automatically being tossed inside or into the court, thus it forces me to hit my serve with my body going forward slightly, into the court.

I found that these two key points really improved my toss and serve.. I hit more and more first serves in. I now often have a game in which I do not have to hit a second serve . I feel my toss is more consistent now.

,,tossing sideways" is a bit confusing for me
i feel i toss just upwards(?!)

 

[toth]

I just been taught to focus on getting the racquet into the trophy position and not on the toss: in other words toss into the swing, not swing into the toss.

Andbuding DT/UT with a slow, high toss...

As i knew before:
Classic serve - rather toss into the swing
Abbreviated serve - rather swing into the toss
Is it false?

 

[Nostradamus]

...after I consciously do this:

1. My body and face are facing towards the side fence on the right side (I'm right handed). My left foot is parallel with the baseline. I'm not sure but maybe my front body is also slightly facing the back fence during the serve motion.... Just slightly...

2. I toss the ball with my straight left arm gently sideways, like a pendulum, with my shoulder as the axis. Because my body is facing the side fence, when I toss the ball sideways towards the left side of my body, the ball is automatically being tossed inside or into the court, thus it forces me to hit my serve with my body going forward slightly, into the court.

I found that these two key points really improved my toss and serve.. I hit more and more first serves in. I now often have a game in which I do not have to hit a second serve . I feel my toss is more consistent now.

as i got little older, i am also having extreme difficult keeping my tossing arm and hand as long as possible after the toss, tossing arm want to fall down. Is this happening to you as well ?? I am sure why this is but i think this is also contributing to my inconsistent toss. Perhaps i should do shoulder flexiblity excercises ? do you think that would help ?? maybe like these ??

 

[sureshs]

I toss the ball with my straight left arm gently sideways

So instead of aligning the tossing arm with your left thigh or groin area, you start with it on the side, the position where it would be if you are just walking, for example?

 

[Nostradamus]

So instead of aligning the tossing arm with your left thigh or groin area, you start with it on the side, the position where it would be if you are just walking, for example?

Can you keep the tossing arm up and pointing towards the cloud as long as possible ?? you don't seem very flexible

 

[guanzishou]

So instead of aligning the tossing arm with your left thigh or groin area, you start with it on the side, the position where it would be if you are just walking, for example?

Yes. Personally, for me, tossing sideways allows me to consistently toss the ball inside the court. It makes me consciously toss the ball into the court.

If I toss the ball towards the front of my body the ball sometimes go towards the area behind me.

 

[toth]

...after I consciously do this:

1. My body and face are facing towards the side fence on the right side (I'm right handed). My left foot is parallel with the baseline. I'm not sure but maybe my front body is also slightly facing the back fence during the serve motion.... Just slightly...

2. I toss the ball with my straight left arm gently sideways, like a pendulum, with my shoulder as the axis. Because my body is facing the side fence, when I toss the ball sideways towards the left side of my body, the ball is automatically being tossed inside or into the court, thus it forces me to hit my serve with my body going forward slightly, into the court.

I found that these two key points really improved my toss and serve.. I hit more and more first serves in. I now often have a game in which I do not have to hit a second serve . I feel my toss is more consistent now.

I tried this idea, and it seems very promising, thank you!!
I am a bad tosser, but with this method the ball goes natural to the spot i wanted to toss it.
I experience with angles yet.

Next week i will try it under pressure...

 

[guanzishou]

I tried this idea, and it seems very promising, thank you!!
I am a bad tosser, but with this method the ball goes natural to the spot i wanted to toss it.
I experience with angles yet.

Next week i will try it under pressure...

I'm glad you find it helpful ! I accidentally found this method, I found that when I toss it like this, the ball is always inside the court.... And my first serve percentage was going up and up..... So I always toss it this way since then.

 

[socallefty]

If I keep my fingers extended (and don’t flip them back) along with keeping my tossing hand up for a bit longer, my toss gets more consistent and into the court. If I don’t play for a while and my toss seems inconsistent, those are the two bad habits that seem to pop up which I have to correct.