par-garell-serves
Timhan asked 5 years ago
hello tom and dan i startet the Serve courses today has practice 2 times today and i can get it right i want to work on it in the right way can you give me some feedback so i can practice the serve corectly
Tom Academy Coach answered 5 years ago
Hey Tim,
For the first few times trying this serve I think you are picking it up pretty quickly really! I would say the main things to work on at the start and looking at yours here is just keeping going with doing a little practice each day, focusing on getting a soft contact on the ball and also trying to keep the action the same for topspin and backspin and only really change the bat angle with the wrist.
Also as your throw the ball up really bring your elbow back so you can accelerate into the serve, think about the feeling of like a small jab punch. If you can get this action with a light touch on the ball I think you will develop this very quickly. The other thing which Pär talks about a lot in the course is the relaxed grip and wrist so be sure to think about that when you do your serve practice. But keep it up it, this is a good start already!
TimhanThanks tom i Will try to do that, is this the same wrist action with the backspin ghostserve
https://youtu.be/WcKC-UtGj8E
Is this Better or is the movement to stif and big
Looks good, it could be a little bit smaller movement I feel and try to twist around more with the body rather than leaning back and then forward too much. So think about the body movement when you do a forehand topspin and try to get the body rotation a bit closer to that feeling. What you have got going here is more acceleration and a good action with the arm!
Also looks like you are getting better at the backspin ones now and getting more spin and keeping them shorter which is great, honestly Tim not many people pick up the feeling on this serve as quick as you so there is a lot of positives, I think once you master the body movement and get the action a bit smaller but still the the same acceleration you’ll have some fantastic serves here!
Thanks tom Will try to Work in iro
