Step 5 Tennis Serve Trophy Pose
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Titulek 1 The fifth part of your serve is getting to something called the trophy pose which is the completion of your preparation The previous three videos in this section focused on the toss, the backswing and knee bend the three elements of the preparation you need to get to the trophy pose which is the body position I'm in right here Now, if we rewind from this position back to the stance let's watch how from the stance I get to the trophy pose again, it's gonna be a combination of those three elements we've talked about the toss, the back swing and the knee bend If we play it forward again, I'm doing all those three things and then I end up in the trophy pose right here.
To be clear, my tossing arm is extended straight up that was the completion of the toss my racket and my hitting arm are in an "L" that was the completion of the backswing and my knees are fully bent with the weight equally distributed on the balls of each foot and that was the completion of the knee bend again, if you do all those three things at the same time if you complete them at the same time you end up in the trophy pose, this position it's called the trophy pose because the body position I'm in right now looks very similar to what a tennis tournament trophy might look like How exactly do you time each element of the preparation the toss, the backswing and the knee bend so that they complete at the same time and you get to the trophy pose Behind me I'm in my stance when my weight rocks forward onto my front foot my arms haven't moved yet but as I begin to rock my weight back, now my arms separate and they drop down together.
Once the weight is all on my back foot and from this position I begin to rock back and forth and bend my knees my arms rise together so that my toss, my backswing and my knee bend all complete at the same time and I get to the trophy pose Now, if we rewind it back to the stance I wanna make an important point about how your arms move during your preparation Coaches call the way your arms move "down together, up together" because the arms move down together as a piece and then up together as a piece and this should help you time your preparation as you try and get to the trophy pose Let's watch it one more time Weight rocks forward, arms havent' moved, as the weight comes back the arms drop down together and then as the weight comes back forward the arms rise together. So, it's important to keep in mind that the arms move down together, and up together during this step of the serve Once you get to the trophy pose again, this is the completion of the preparation and from this position you're ready to swing forward and hit the tennis ball The final piece of timing your preparation and getting into the trophy pose is that you wanna be hitting the trophy pose at the same instant the toss is at its highest point.
So, let's see exactly how I do that As I wing up and I toss the tennis ball the toss reaches its highest point when I'm in the trophy pose So the toss is at the top of the frame here it's at its highest point and I'm in the trophy pose Let's watch that one more time for clarity sake I toss the ball and complete the preparation when the toss reaches its highest point and this is important because this timing helps you with the rythm of your service motion if you toss the ball really high for example, you could end up sitting in your trophy pose for a little while and that's awkward, that makes the rythm of your serve a little bit messed up So, if you time it like this that's really gonna help with your rythm during your service motion and later on when you swing forward and try and hit the ball.
