Step 1 Tennis Kick Serve Toss
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Titulek 1 One of the key difference between the kick serve and the flat serve is the location of your toss.
The mechanics of your toss for each serve are the same You wanna hold the ball in your fingers not your palm, hold it in your fingers raise your arm in a smooth motion, release the ball about the top of your head and continue to extend your arm after you've tossed But again, where you're putting the toss is different.
For the kick serve, you wanna toss the ball so that you hit it when it's directly above your head The best way to get it to that location is to aim for your hitting arm shoulder when you toss the ball. Since I'm a lefty I toss with my right hand I would toss it up over my head and try to land it on this shoulder For all you righties out there it's the opposite.
Left hand, toss it over your head, air for your right shoulder and again, that should put it in the right spot, directly above your head when you're trying to make contact.
Let's take a look at my kick serve and flat serve side by side and see how the location of my toss differs depending on what serve I'm hitting.
Again, in these shots I'm hitting into the add (?) court The serve next to me here is my kick serve and the serve further away is my flat serve You can see as I wind up with my flat serve the toss is going into the court but with my kick serve here the toss is drifting over my head.
The reason that I'm tossing the ball in a different location is because later in the serve I'm gonna make contact with the tennis ball in a different spot than I will with the flat serve.
And that spot, my point of contact is directly above my head which you can see right here That's the key to the kick serve You need to toss the ball in a spot that let's you hit it directly above your head Now that we've established that you need to toss the ball in a way that allows you to make contact with it directly above your head it is worth mentioning that you have some flexibility in terms of how far you toss the ball into the court That flexibility depends on how agressive you're trying to be with your kick serve In the clip of me hitting my kick I'm not being particularly agressive so my toss stays more or less in line with the baseline.
But in the clip of Frank hitting his kick serve over here his toss is drifting into the court. He is being more agressive with his kick.
And that's fine. You are welcome to toss the ball further into the court as long as your body follows your toss and you get your body under your toss when you make contact with the tennis ball.
You can see in the clip of Frank hitting, when the toss drifts into the court his body follows so his body position is still the same as mine at contact.
Over here at my contact point, the toss is directly above my head when I hit it and with Frank the tennis ball is also directly above his head when he makes contact with it So he follows the tennis ball into the court.