A New Teaching System: The Serve: Swing Path

[bman]

Actually that serve looked pretty darn good to me.

[GeoffWilliams]

She does not extenally rotate her shoulder at all, nor coil her shoulders to the net. So no kinetic force is stored, and there is no snap back, nothing but all arm here.

[mlogarzo]

Hey John,

Great article. You may not remember me, but I did the demonstrations for Chris Lewit's kick serve article back when i was the Head Coach in his Academy in 07/08.

Have a few juniors I'm working with at the moment who really struggle with this after years and years of developing bad habits. Previous coaches haven't paid attention to it and it's been to detriment of their serve.

Your point re the face of the racquet being perpendicular to a line across the torso is spot on. I'm also a big believer in players being able to feel what they are doing and encourage shadowing the motion or specific parts of the motion that they need to correct. Find in particular girls struggle with this checkpoint and the pronating of the wrist after contact.

Have just started working with the top 16 year old girl in Australia and she's come to me with major confidence issues with her serve and I'm going to show her this video as a starting point. I've attached her serve, feel free to have a look.

[johnyandell]

David,

Answered your email also. We need to know what platform you are on--it's probably something simple at your end...pc, mac, ipad??? QT definitely will work!!

[nisinson]

Your website wont allow me to view videos in Quicktime

Your current issue wont ley me run programs in quicktime.
-David Nisinson

[johnyandell]

Would love to get your thoughts on my latest article "A New Teaching System: The Serve: Swing Path"