“Hi Brent,
Thanks for another great instruction video and a very helpful tip on the second serve pronation.This is the first complete explanation I’ve ever seen.
It was so enlightening that you also pointed out the finish position of the wrist and racquet head down.
I have mentioned you to a number of my tennis friends, but now I am signing up for your Web tennis.net referral program.
I have been passing on a lot of your wisdom in the form of second hand free tennis lessons.
I have been practicing keeping my head up and still after contact with the ball while serving just as I do on my groundstrokes.
Although your tehnique was excellent on this video demonstrating pronation I noticed that you started lowering your eyes and head a little before contact.
Are you going to emulate your friend who you used to demo your video on keeping the ball tossing arm up until the last possible moment and the keep your head up after contact video?
It appears to me that, as I said, your serving motion looks identical to your friend’s except you lower your head a little sooner, but with excellent results? Please don’t take this as a criticism. I realize that if it isn’t broken often times don’t fix it or change it could apply.
Thanks again for all your help.”
Larry
Hey, I’m just like you guys. I have and will always have areas of my game I need to tinker with…
Larry pointed out something I do on my 2nd serve that I have always had to keep working on and that’s to make sure I don’t pull my head down too early during my service motion.
Larry’s comments were made in reference to the post over at:
Tennis Serve In Super Slow Motion
And the best way to get a reality check is to see yourself on video.
You can think you’re doing this or that or someone can tell you you’re doing this or that, but this or that doesn’t mean anything unless you can actually see yourself on video.
What are you working on with your 2nd serve these days?
If you want, send me a short video clip (no longer than 15 seconds) of your 2nd serve via email to askbrent@webtennis.net and let me know what it is you’re trying to improve. I’ll take a look at your video and give you my feedback.
But back to Larry’s comments on how I tend to drop my head / eyes just a bit too soon.
Thanks Larry, you couldn’t be more right, and today I’m going out there and hit 20 serves and artifically keep my head up looking at what was the contact point (just like my pal Dick Johnson does in one of the videos I posted on his serve).
http://webtennis.com/2010/02/05/2nd-serve-keeping-the-eyes-up-through-the-contact-point/
And I’ve got a tournament match tomorrow and I’m going to write myself a note as a reminder to make sure that I’m doing the same during my warm-up serves.
Brent
