How to practice getting the feel for generatating spin on your serve.
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Look, let’s forget about some of the funky terms we use for generating spin on the serve such as pronation, release, whatever…
There are a couple of keys to getting better spin on your serve.
A loose continental grip that will help you to naturally swing your racket up the back of the ball will make the ball spin in a specific direction. Topspin…
Once you get comfortable with the feeling of the loose grip (make it relaxed, if you squeeze too tightly, this will not work for you), then work on that swing path going up and not around the side corner.
Make sure you don’t slow down the racket head just prior to contact, in fact, to get really good spin, you’ll want to speed up the racket just prior to contact.
Good racket speed for now equates to a relaxed grip tension.
The death grip will certainly kill something. And that’s your ability to impart spin.
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Hi thnx for a great tip, i practiced my spin serve a while ago but without much succes.
Anyway I don’t really know what the difference is between this and a kick serve. Hope you can clear it up for me. thnx, Nick
These tips are one gem after another. Thanks so much, Brent. Since your video tips, and other instructional videos are filmed from a distance to show the full range of swing motion, one small suggestion is to mix it up a bit and show some close-ups of how the racket strikes the ball (you can either slow-mo it in your video editing program before uploading, or the viewer can step through it frame by frame using the keyboard arrow keys; my guess is you’d probably need to slow-mo it before posting), especially when you are trying to impart spin on the ball, such as the Top-Spin Serve. I think that would really help nail down your point about the leading edge of the racket coming up the back of the ball, rather than hitting the side. It would take some savvy camera-work, but I’ll bet it can be done without aggravating the cameraman too much.
Geoff