Different Tennis Serve Stances
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In the serve section of the website we said to use the party stance when you're first learning because it's a very easy stance to master.
It'll put you in position to execute all the fundamentals later in the serve.
Now, quickly to review the party stance is where your front foot is angled diagonally into the court it's right behind the baseline and your back foot is about a foot or so behind your front foot and angled parallel with the baseline.
This stance is a part of a larger group of stances called "platform stances".
A platform stance is where you have your feet more or less short of foot apart the exact angle how you configure your feet is not as important Sampras and McEnroe (? ostuda, co?) have wider stances, like this allow them to get more shoulder turn Somebody like Federer has a more classic party stance.
Now, there is another type of stance called a pin point stance where your feet are very close together, maybe an inch or so apart and this stance has been recently popularized by Andy Roddick.
Now, there are some variations to the pin point stance the main one is where you start off in a platform stance and as you wind up you step forward with your back foot and bring it up next to your front foot so again, you're in that pin point stance when you execute the rest of your motion. There are several advantages and disadvatages coaches typically associate with these various stances.
With the platform stance and again, the party stance is a part of this group the weight transfer is suppose to be pretty easy The wider your feet are apart, the easier it is to move the weight from foot to foot get it all on your back foot and then move your weight forward into the court when you serve.
With the pinpoint stance, where your feet are closer together now it's easier to explode up and into the tennis ball. You'll get little bit higher and you'll get a little bit more power on your serve because it's easier to jump up with your feet closer together than it is when your feet are further apart.
The further apart your feet are, the harder it is to jump up and into your serve.
The hybrid pinpoint when you start with a platform stance get the weight moving forward and then bring your feet together so you can explode up and into the ball more is trying to get the best of the both worlds but the difficulty with this stance is that because you are moving forward it becomes harder to, because you are stepping forward it becomes harder to control your balance, it becomes harder to control your toss, there is more moving parts, essentially.
Now with that said, in my opinion I think some of the advantages and disadvantages or so called advantages and disadvantages is more in the couches mind than it may be in reality.
I've never seen a study that proves that one stance is better than the other The most important thing is that your chose a stance that you're comfortable with and a stance that allows you to execute all the various mechanics of the serve correctly.
The final point I wanna make is that how you position yourself is gonna vary little bit depending on whether you're serving to the deuce or the add (?) court. You're still gonna use the same stance but you're gonna tweak it a little bit.
If I'm in the party stance and I'm serving to the deuce court Let's say I stand like this so i'm positioned to serve diagonally to my left a little bit.
If I now go over to the add (?) side, I use the exact same stance the exact same positioning, I'm still configured to serve this way.
What I want now is to be configured to serve that way, towards the add court so I need to alter my body position by changing my stance a little bit so now I can go that way instread.
Again, if I take this stance and go back to the deuce court now, I'm positioned to serve over here I need to tweak it so I'm ready to serve back into the deuce court instead of the add court.
Behind me we've got Tim XXXX in his stance.
Again, as we said in the fundamentals section he uses the party stance, he's got his feet maybe shoulder width apart maybe little bit more and one of the reasons he might use this stance is because his serves in volleys and this stance will allow him to transfer his weight into the court and follow his serve in the (into?) net.
We can compare this with Andy Roddick's serve which we've got right here, here he is in his stance and he's got thap pinpoint stance with his feet very close together Roddick obviously has a huge serve, he really gets up into his serve and he obviously drills the ball. Finally, we've got John XXX who has that hybrid pinpoint stance where here he is with his feet about shoulder width apart but then when he gets to his trophy pose now he's stepped forward and his feet are together, and Isner (?) as well he gets really high when he serves he gets about a foot off the ground and his serve of course is enormous as well. Finally, let's go back to Tim HXXX and what we're gonna do is split screen his stance on the deuce court and the add court What you're gonna see if we put a line between his back foot is that on the add court his foot is angled back a little bit on the deuce court his foot is pretty much parallel with the baseline So, what he's done is he's changed his foot and body position he's rotated around a little bit more becuase he's serving in a different direction.
And that's what you need to do. When you switch sides of the court you need to rotate the body position, orient yourself not just your stance but your entire body so that you are positioned to serve in the appropriate service box.