Platform and pinpoint serve hybrid?

[Paul555]

Hi, after learning a reliable platform serve I recently started experimenting with the pinpoint serve...

After an hour of on-court practice and more shadow swing experimentation at home I so far settled on a hybrid between platform and pinpoint. I start with a relatively wide stance, then drag my back foot towards my front foot till they're about shoulder width apart. I don't drag the back foot all the way towards the front foot.

This feels best to me. The initial wide stance works well to create a more dynamic feeling load. Plus the move to shoulder width also gives me some forward momentum. Maintaining some space in between my feet makes the serve feel more stable then a regular pinpoint stance and also makes the kick and slice easier.

Would you say this way of serving is fine?

Just curious as I don't see it anywhere.

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

Don’t think I’ve ever sent this. If it worx for you, why not. Any videos?

Roddick’s employed a stance that could be characterized as a narrow platform (or wide PP). Did not move either foot prior to jumping. Monfils used this idea for a number of years as well. There was a time when Roddick started with a somewhat narrow platform but, during his motion, he would move his front foot back a bit. May have done this for a while to prevent foot-faulting

 

[nyta2]

i accidently stumbled on this during my serving evolution... but imo you add complexity (moving foot moving forward) without any of the benefit (pinpoint)
imo pinpoint allows the greatest amount of lean into the court, allowing me to xfer body weight into contact better... (also let's me get my "hip into the court" better... as another power source) - arguably a more complicated motion in exchange for more racquet speed (see shelton as extreme case)
but i switched to narrow platform because when my toss was off in pinpoint, i tended to "chase" the toss more (in pinpoint it was harder for me to "feel" when my balance was off")
in platform, i can feel my imbalance on bad tosses much better.
like the OP, stumbled on a "pinpoint type move to narrow platform", because i originally started with too wide a platform stance (or maybe my body was trying to get back to pinpoint), and found myself subconsciously moving from widePlatform to narrowPlatform during my serve.
eventually i eliminated the back foot moving, and now just start in narrowPlatform to eliminate complexity (took me a while to get used to less moving parts as i wanted to add steps to the serve because i started with pinpoint - but imo i think it was more due to mind/body shedding extraneous nervous energy in the form of a step)

 

[PKorda]

thought this thread was going to be about the Roddick/Monfils stance mentioned above, which coincidentally I was experimenting with last night while practicing my serve and was working quite well for me. was going to say what an amazing coincidence as had never really tried this before and wake up and there's a thread on it...