Pronation question... yet another one

[sh@de]

So I've read quite a few of the threads here on pronation, and I'm really confused right now. I know pronation pretty much occurs naturally for all types of serves. But what I'm wondering is, for a kick serve, do you pronate, and then make contact, or do you pronate and hit the ball at the same time? If you pronate and hit the ball at the same time, doesn't that make the ball spin clockwise? I thought most services spun anticlockwise?

I'm really only confused about pronation in kick serves; I'm fine about flat serves. And the other question I have is, what about for slice serves then? Don't you want slice serves (as a righty) to spin out to the left? That can surely only be achieved by anticlockwise spin? Which wouldn't come if you pronated would it...?

 

[gzhpcu]

So I've read quite a few of the threads here on pronation, and I'm really confused right now. I know pronation pretty much occurs naturally for all types of serves. But what I'm wondering is, for a kick serve, do you pronate, and then make contact, or do you pronate and hit the ball at the same time? If you pronate and hit the ball at the same time, doesn't that make the ball spin clockwise? I thought most services spun anticlockwise?

I'm really only confused about pronation in kick serves; I'm fine about flat serves. And the other question I have is, what about for slice serves then? Don't you want slice serves (as a righty) to spin out to the left? That can surely only be achieved by anticlockwise spin? Which wouldn't come if you pronated would it...?

When you come up out of the backdrop, your racket is on edge, just prior to impact, pronation brings the racket face in the right position (facing the net) to hit the ball, afterwards your arm continues to pronate so that the racket face now faces outward towards the side fence (this is purely a movement to reduce stress).