Roanic's Serve Motion, Video

[JimF]

Seeing that Raonic hit 50 aces in the last two days, I pasted together a video from images I took at last week's SAP Open, in case anyone is interested.

I was as much trying out the video as looking at his serve, so I mixed together stop-action with slow-motion at 120 FPS, and in-software slow motion with stills.

Raonic's service motion looks classic, old-fashioned to me: Solid base, good extension, lots of pronation, but with none of the complex, step-up-back-foot and twist you see new players taught.

I include examples of his wicked-twist serve, flat serves, as well as slice.

Blog page, with video embed:
http://www.fawcette.net/2011/02/milos-raonics-serve-close-up-in-video.html

 

[lendlmac]

Seeing that Raonic hit 50 aces in the last two days, I pasted together a video from images I took at last week's SAP Open, in case anyone is interested.

I was as much trying out the video as looking at his serve, so I mixed together stop-action with slow-motion at 120 FPS, and in-software slow motion with stills.

Raonic's service motion looks classic, old-fashioned to me: Solid base, good extension, lots of pronation, but with none of the complex, step-up-back-foot and twist you see new players taught.

I include examples of his wicked-twist serve, flat serves, as well as slice.

Blog page, with video embed:
http://www.fawcette.net/2011/02/milos-raonics-serve-close-up-in-video.html

excellent work you did! thank you! :shock::shock::shock:

 

[banter]

Thank you. The notes at the end were really quick, but it's ok. The videography is great.

Thank you, again.

 

[roundiesee]

Brilliant! Thanks so much!

 

[kishnabe]

Racquet Head speed is crazy and pronation reminds me of Dent and Sampras!

 

[JimF]

Thanks.

Thanks for the nice feedback.

 

[Bud]

Seeing that Raonic hit 50 aces in the last two days, I pasted together a video from images I took at last week's SAP Open, in case anyone is interested.

I was as much trying out the video as looking at his serve, so I mixed together stop-action with slow-motion at 120 FPS, and in-software slow motion with stills.

Raonic's service motion looks classic, old-fashioned to me: Solid base, good extension, lots of pronation, but with none of the complex, step-up-back-foot and twist you see new players taught.

I include examples of his wicked-twist serve, flat serves, as well as slice.

Blog page, with video embed:
http://www.fawcette.net/2011/02/milos-raonics-serve-close-up-in-video.html

At 1:27 you can see where he gets so much (seemingly) effortless power... a hyper-mobile shoulder joint. I don't think the average person can get that same range of motion from their shoulder(s).

Racquet drop and racquet head acceleration are also superb.

 

[BobFL]

He is just super-smooth and fluid. Roddick's serve is, for example, all about muscling and more muscling

 

[Tennis sensation]

Nice work.

Thanks

 

[athiker]

Very nice vid thanks. First time I've seen him after hearing so much about him lately.

 

[Manus Domini]

awesome vid, thankee