Step 4 Tennis Serve Progressions Shoulder Hit
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The fourth step in the serve progressions
is to actually hit the tennis ball with an abbreviated service motion.
So, we're gonna take the toss and then add it to the rest mechanics
that we've worked on in the first and second videos of the serve progression section.
You're gonna start with all the weight on your back foot, racket on the shoulder
body sideways, and what you're gonna do is simply toss the tennis ball
and then hit it very very gently, the key is to work on all the various mechanics
that we've gone over in the previous videos.
The weight transfer. You transfer your weight to your front foot
rotate your upper body back towards the net and you swing up on edge and pronate.
You need to make sure that you're doing all these things
So let's watch it again, what I wanna hightlight right here if we freeze it for a second
is that I'm stopping my racket at contact and that helps me develop the motion correctly
I wanna be able to do it very slowly
so that I can really focus on the technique
and one of the trick to doing that is seeing if you can get the tennis ball
to bounce three times before it reaches the baseline.
That will ensure that you're not hitting the tennis ball too hard.
Again, just to reiterate, make sure that you stop at contact
so you swing up on edge, pronate and then stop at contact once you've hit the tennis ball.
Now, one of the things that's very important when you practice this is
making sure that you're getting to the correct contact point.
But how exactly are you supposed to know what contact feels like?
Well, what you can do is come up to the back fence like I've done here
you wanna position yourself as close to the back fence as possible
so that when you practice the motion we just discussed
the fence doesn't actually get in your way.
But what you're gonna do is toss and hit the ball
so that you trap it against the fence here.
The body position I'm in right now, where I've got the tennis ball trapped against the fence
is pretty close to contact.
My tennis racket, my contact point is probably a litle bit off to the left
but for the most part this will get you in the correct position
the correct contact position and it will give your body some feel,
some reference point in terms of what that's supposed to feel like
when you make contact with the tennis ball.
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