par-garell-serve-wrist-snap
tim_torchia asked 5 years ago
Great course. What does the wrist do? If it snaps slightly toward the body/table it helps backspin but counters sidespin and, would counter the topspin variation. If it moves away (reverse pendulum direction) it improves sidespin and the topspin variation but counters the backspin variation.
Dan Academy Coach answered 5 years ago
Hi Tim,
Glad you’re enjoying the course 🙂 That’s great! That’s right the wrist plays an important role in the spin. Par emphasis’s that the sidespin is key to creating deception within the serve, so when executing the serve you want to produce either sidespin-backspin, or sidespin-topspin. This will help your serve be more deceptive. If you just produce backspin or just produce topspin, the spin is to obvious to your opponent.
So when you contact the ball you finish slightly downwards for sidespin-backspin, or finish more around the side and on top of the ball for sidespin-topspin.
Hope this helps, if you can send us in any videos of yourself practicing the serves that would be great to analyse.
Thanks,
Dan
