One of the things I do when I either warm up my serve for a match or practice my serve is to hit some very high rainbow shape type of serves that have lots of spin.

I want to insure that I’m at least getting a nice high bounce with my 2nd serve from the height going over the net as opposed to having to force a “kicker” type of spin.

Let’s be real, developing a major league 2nd serve “kicker” is not any thing to do. It takes a ton of practice, extraordinary strength, and a body (shoulder, elbow, lower back, wrist, etc.) that can withstand the punishment from the action needed to really hit a true kick serve.

The end result is to try and get your 2nd serve to bounce up and out of the strike zone of your opponent, and however you accomplish that is really what’s important.

I’ve got a fairly good 2nd serve that I can get to bounce quickly up and out of that returner’s comfort zone AND that also allows me enough time to really get a great court position for my first volley, especially in doubles.

When your opponent knows they’ll have to deal with a return of serve contact point that is at shoulder height and also has to deal with you coming behind that serve, the pressure for them to not pop up their return is big.

Within three 15 minute practice sessions you can be getting a big time bounce with your 2nd serve
up and out of your opponent’s strike zone in both singles and doubles.

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There are a couple of stroke mechanic fundamentals that are necessary for producing a better spin on your serve.

Better spin equates to a faster tighter spin that solves both of your geometric problems when serving:  getting the ball safely up and over the net AND curving the ball back down into the service box.

Getting the ball up and over the net without much spin isn’t too tough to do, but the ball ends up needing gravity to drop back down into the service box, and that simply is a juicy set up for your opponent.

And even if you’ve got the perfect serve grip, the perfect tossing motion, the ideal set up position prior to swinging up at the ball, if you squeeze just a hair too tightly on your grip, you’ll have a slow swing speed at contact which produces very little spin, and guess what, your opponent now loves you…

You got it, developing a light grip tension on your serve, and being almost counter intuitive where you don’t “muscle up” to get spin and power, that’s right, a lighter grip tension produces much more racket speed which equates to a faster and tighter spin.

Jim McLennan Can Help Us With Our Serve

My good friend and tennis professional colleague, Jim McLennan, is a master at teaching the serve.  It’s one thing to understand the specific fundamentals, and entirely different skill to articulate them to you so you can actually improve your serve.

A fellow Tom Stow student, and long time tennis professional, Jim is giving away his new report on how to avoid 5 costly mistakes on your serve.

Jim and I go way back, nearly 40 years.  And truly his background, point of view as a teaching professional, as well as the material within this report – all are first class.  I’ve mentioned Jim in many of my blog posts over the years so you may remember his name.  When I’ve got some teaching idea I need to discuss, Jim is always the first guy I go to.

In fact I’ve read his report and use many of the concepts within my own service delivery, and, personally, would be willing to pay money for it.

I think he’s crazy for giving it away, especially because it’s jam-packed with great tips on how to improve your serve.

The report is easy to read, covers the five most common mistakes, and offers simple corrective solutions.

• Losing balance with the toss – shifting your weight forward too soon

• Toss and swing out of sync – disrupting rhythm

• An overly tight grip – causing tension from the arm up to the shoulder (You know me, this is one of my most important tips for your serve.  Jim articulates it in a way that is unique and really helpful.)

• Hitting the ball without any snap at the top of the swing

• Serving without any spin

I am not sure how long this will be available, so I recommend grabbing your complimentary copy immediately and putting the concepts to use as soon as possible.

If you do, I am confident your serve will improve – more easily and far sooner than you might ever imagine.

In addition to the things I’ve been suggesting to you for your serve, Jim’s report will certainly enhance those recommendations.

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Follow this link to pick up your free copy of Jim’s report

As I mentioned above, Jim and I both trained under Tom Stow and Jim’s great way with words combined with his excellent coaching style make this report a must have for any players bookshelf.  He knows his stuff.

Jim will follow up with a special offer on an online product – Building the Serve from the Ground Up – a multimedia interactive course – but you will be under no obligation to purchase.

Why would I ever endorse someone else’s tennis instruction?  Simple, we all hear and see things differently.  My goal is to help you improve your serve, and if another way of articulating it makes more sense to you, then I’m a happy teaching pro!

However, I should point out that I have a special plan for an added video bonus I am putting together for you if you choose to get it.  Anyway, more on that later.

Go and get the report now.  Click here.

Brent

Over the history of tennis, it’s always seemed that the Australians really “get” that doubles is a team sport.

I know that it sounds obvious, that since doubles is played with two partners, it’s a team game, right…?

Well, the way so many of us constantly go for shots that have nothing to do with “enabling” our partner, we can easily lose the concepts of good solid doubles.

The Bryan Brothers, the #1 doubles team in the world from out here in California, clearly understand that playing doubles is not about you, it’s all about your partner.

I was fortunate to get some telephone time with Joel Drucker yesterday.  As you may know, Joel is one of the world’s leading tennis writers, tennis TV producers, and the author of “Jimmy Connors Saved My Life”, a popular tennis book.

Joel loves to play doubles and he says he’s learned a ton over the years from Australian players, not only from his globe trotting tennis & TV writing jobs, but also at John Newcombe’s Fantasy Tennis Camp.  Joel is heading to Newk’s next week for Joel’s 14th year attending this wildly popular tennis camp hosted by Newcombe and plenty of his Aussie mates.

And since I’m off to Perth Australia in a couple of weeks to play the ITF World Team event, I thought it might be a good time to tie it all together.  I wanted to pick Joel’s brain on the obvious concept of doubles being a team game and how and why from time to time we tend to lose sight of that simple concept.

“Doubles Is Playing For Your Partner…”

Discover in doubles which player is the “Feeder”, “The Attractor”, “The Protector” and more…

Become a doubles master and you’ll eventually get tired of your phone ringing off the hook 24/7 as other players want you as their doubles partner!

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“Doubles – Why & When To Be Where On The Court”

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