Training and warm up advice for serve toss?

[kingp1ng]

My serve toss is very inconsistent and it takes me like 20 min of tossing / ghost serving to get into rhythm. Does anyone have tips or advice for practicing & warming up their serve toss? I never properly learned how to serve toss when I was younger, so I don't have any muscle memory for consistent tossing. At the same time, I'm trying to unlearn bad habits.

Most of my bad ball tosses are backwards spinning balls caused by the ball rolling off my index and middle finger.

Details of my technique: I'm tossing the ball with my fingertips, 4 fingers, straight arm, release at face level, no prior knee bend.

 

[SinjinCooper]

Straight arm, release at eye level? Pretty much all you needed to know.

To practice, figure out how high you want your toss to go, then go find a tree with a leaf hanging down at that level. Stand under that son of a ***** and toss till you can dink that leaf practically every time. Take your racquet with you so you can continue the motion till trophy. Catch and repeat. Boom: pro level toss.

 

[2HBH-DTL]

Straight arm, release at eye level? Pretty much all you needed to know.

these here are the 2 main elements. ball should be held lightly on the finger tips. shouldn't be gripping it too tight, the more you grip it then it's going to spin in the air. you want that ball to be tossed straight up with little to no movement.

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

How about allowing the ball to also rest on your palm so you have some horizontal stability? Open all 4 fingers simultaneously and lift the ball up. The way you're doing it, there's a much bigger penalty for not letting go with all 4 fingers simultaneously [ie backwards spinning ball].

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

these here are the 2 main elements. ball should be held lightly on the finger tips. shouldn't be gripping it too tight, the more you grip it then it's going to spin in the air. you want that ball to be tossed straight up with little to no movement.

Not straight up:

 

[2HBH-DTL]

what i meant was your tossing arm should be relatively up and down. but yes the toss itself will vary on what type of serve you want.