Comments on: The Racket Drop

By: aquatico

aquatico — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:34:33 +0000

More Details…

You must check out this added resource about the topic….

By: joe

joe — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:45:00 +0000

mike warren is not a quality tennis playeer

By: Manasi Ramadani

Manasi Ramadani — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:28:00 +0000

That was awwwssooooommmmmmmee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you please send me the continental grip serve video.
Suggesstion: you can make a tennis Quiz if you want to!!!!!!

By: Desertbobcat

Desertbobcat — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:16:00 +0000

This is probably the least understod+implemented part of the serve based
on what I see. What you have done is excellent, and it is so much better than
what was available a few years ago! However, I think you place to much focus
on arm movement rather that body movement which will influence correct arm
movement. I believe the ball toss is best intiated if you lean the body diagonally
back the arm will come back closer to the body which otherwise will limit wt transfer.

By: Manny

Manny — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:48:00 +0000

great site but i think there must be a simpler way to teach the serve. i know this is the traditional method, breaking it down into its fundamental parts, but it’s very difficult to make use of all these different points of reference and to combine them into a relaxed fluid motion by consciously exerting control over all my separate body parts while simultaneously trying to hit the ball.

what i mean is it’s an athletic movement that a non-athlete will struggle to learn this way, which is why you see so many recreational players with those stiff, choppy, fragmented motions that never improve.

as an athlete, i know, and you know, the serve is a variation on a throwing motion — similar to throwing a baseball or a football. the differences between the serve and, say, a baseball throw, are a reflection of the fact that you are holding a racket, not a ball, and striking an object rather than throwing one.

otherwise, the body is functioning in a very similar way in each instance, shifting weight back and forward, coiling and uncoiling to generate linear & angular momentum which is transferred into the ball.

so i wonder if maybe the first lesson someone should have when learning to serve is a throwing lesson. i had a teacher with a phenomenal serve and he would line us up across the baseline with old wooden rackets and make us throw them overhand across the net which forced us to do a lot of these serve elements automatically.

put another way, if someone learns how to properly throw, they stand a much better chance of being able to modify that basic athletic motion into a tennis serve than they do trying to learn that same serve (in a vacuum) from a complex dissection of its elements.

just my 2 cents.