Video Tip
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Hi, Brent Abel
here, WebTennis.net, and this week's tip for you is on your serve,
and what I want to try to help you with is to give you just a little
tip on how you can generate some more racket speed, and more racquet
speed will give your serve more power and it'll give your serve much
more spin.
When I was a kid
learning how to serve, I was struggling just trying to hold the
racket and by doing that I was naturally getting too strong.
I was just
clenching too tight and I really couldn't get much racquet speed on
my serve.
I'll never forget
this one day that I happened to be around Barry McKay, who was
helping some kids with their game, and he gave me a tip that really
made a ton of sense and that was he said, "Try placing your little
finger, your fifth finger, below the racquet and not that you're
going to serve this way, but that when you go through the motion, it
gives you this feeling of how you loose you want to be in your
hand".
When I did that,
it really sort of gave me that nice sense of freedom in that I
didn't have to squeeze tight and that I could really let it go, and
that really helped me generate a lot more racquet speed to get some
more power and also some more spin.
So, what I'd like
you to try this week is try this a couple times, get that
continental grip on your serve going, get this fifth finger below
the racquet, and you don't even have to hit balls, but just kind of
go through the motion with this fifth finger below the racquet, and
that will give you the sense of how loose you really want to hold
the racquet, because once you put this fifth finger down here, I'm
telling you, you really lose a lot of strength which is what you
want to do.
You don't want to
be strong in the serve. You want to have racquet speed.
All right? Hope
this has helped. Any questions,
Brent@WebTennis.net .
Thanks very much. |
