Mr. Nikola Aracic, so aptly named, is a genius at unlocking the untapped potential of any student in simplistic yet methodical steps that “click” within a student. You surely noticed how Anna was an audio/visual learner and promptly tailored your expertise to fit her schema. If that doesn’t tell you how brilliant and passionate this man is I don’t know what will. Forever grateful for your little ‘slice’ of heaven and please do keep up the fantastic work. Thank you.
I love the way she laughs and giggles while trying to improve her skills. That's something we tend to forget to do when were playing this great sport. Sometimes we get to competitive
U r a effing good coach. The high five drill engaged her natural interest as well as instinctively taught her the mechanics of the lean and transfer of body weight. Mad respect.
Anna's videos are my favorite, she's very enthusiastic and genuine about learning the sport. Another great video coach! Quickly becoming my favorite tennis channel on youtube!
This is one of the best serve instructional videos that I have see; a lot of complex ideas covered quickly and simply. Best of all, you got Anna to achieve a good racquet naturally and without telling her.
The best part about this video is the stark difference between Anna’s serve action at the start and how it grows into the correct action at the end. Also, your statement about the perfect toss being difficult to achieve is so relatable. Awesome content!
Interesting to watch. Her move transforms from a stationary ballet pose (2:45) to a beautiful tennis style (11:30) in a few minutes. Very nice, but still to go. We wait until Anna hits it like a pro.
Super step by step serve lesson to a beginner. I like the high five which drove her up to land inside the court on her left foot. Ana is a fast learner. Good work Nick.
I LOVE the high five trick! Instant improvement afterwards 👍. Anna is a very patient learner. I think these videos are extremely helpful for coaches to understand the challenges of introducing skilled to novices. Anna is obviously kinetically aware. Great vid
Thanks to Anna and you; I learned more from your observed comments and Anna's sequential corrections, than any slowed-down critique version of any top-pro's service. Essentially, allowing ones body to meet the ball as high as possible, is a very up-lifting service.
Very good video. So much more credible when you see coaches working with real students, instead of pros demonstrating a stroke with their honed pro level technique!
I love watching Anna's progress. She's a fast learner. I even get jealous of how far she's come already. I am still right where she is in terms of serve and I have been practicing for years. You're a great coach Nick!
Anna is progressing rapidly due to your excellent instruction and her hard work!! Thanks to you Nik, I've realized my toss was not into the court enough, just as you helped out Samir and Anna with tossing into the court for easy power!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾
Loving these videos! Starting from absolute scratch and been doing shadow tennis in my living room even before my racket arrived. Signed up for a beginners tournament with only one week now to spare so hoping to go in (with a few practices with friends also) with at least the basics down! Go Nikola and Anna, top quality 😁
Yeah coach Nik, just watched your previous video on serve lag and I'm very guilty of this after analyzing my own practice serve video recently.. I'm doing too much the "arms up together" technique which causes timing problems and my racquet pauses way too long at the trophy pose and takes away all my power. Trying to correct this now, your videos have been very helpful this year for my game. Wishing you continued success in 2021, maybe hope to visit FL for an on-court lesson, tell Shamir to get ready!
I am new to tennis and serving. I’ve gotten a lot better at the motion but still struggle with power and consistency. One thing that happened last year when attempting to learn was hitting with the frying pay (open up on the trophy position) instead of keeping the racquet forward and then dropping it out of the trophy position. I actually ended up having a really bad shoulder injury. My only critique is try not to full swing with a frying pan because it adds terrible torque! Watching videos of myself serving helped identify this. It’s really hard to keep the racquet forward and drop behind instead of out in the frying pan.
Hi Nic, vielen vielen Dank dass Du so viele Videos zur Verfügung stellst. Es ist wirklich hilfreich zu sehen, wie der Serve from scratch gelernt werden soll! Sorry if I missed this somewhere, I watched a lot of your videos… but is there anywhere where you show how to position the feet on each side (ad and deuce) - which direction should they point to? Also, I watched a video where you help Sara to fix her foot faults and she also kind of naturally goes into the pin point stance. Would be super helpful to see that next progression. From the 1-2-3 motion to swing path and shifting the weight - do you have a video that shows at what point to move the back foot to pin point? Vielen Dank für die Info wenn du kannst, hope it’s not asking too much. Liebe Grüße aus New York
ua-cam.com/video/gEG6jOIyOz0/v-deo.html That’s for stances, serve finish I haven’t covered yet on YT other than in lesson like this one ua-cam.com/video/XGOIiiF72uM/v-deo.html
watch her legs when she claps your hand and when she fixed legs this looked like a serve she was like every beginner moving right leg in front before, this improved in 1 min when one coach told me this:) just 1 word suffice you dont need an hour of talk:)
Tennis is an open skill sport. It does not matter what you look like when you hit. It matters how well you can control space and time. Treat tennis more like chess and less like gymnastics. Question: “what are you trying to do to your opponent?” Should help. Thank me later
Elbow forward (instead of wrist forward) seems to be common among females: girls to women. Those that throw with elbow forward have that to overcome before hitting good serves.
please soon address her foot faulting that is being caused by her knee bending twice. Of course you mentioned it but it's still there for now. Lets all do our part to end rec tennis foot-faulters! LOL #petpeeves
Noticed this as well. She slips into an eastern forehand grip although it seems like it may be corrected in the final serves shown from behind the baseline.
She is using continental, it does slide back to the forehand side which reminded her but cut it from this vid bc we covered it here 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2LQvpHO59nE/v-deo.html
She is using continental, it does slide back to the forehand side which reminded her but cut it from this vid bc we covered it here 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2LQvpHO59nE/v-deo.html
@@jag3384 she doesn’t have waiter tray. The racquet drops sufficiently but she’s not pronating into contact (on edge) which might take a months or longer depending how much work she puts into serve.
@@IntuitiveTennis Ok you're the expert Nick but my definition is, if the palm goes up, even if there's some racket drop, it's waiter tray b/c palm up kills the looping motion.
I think Ana just gave tennis just a whole different dimension.. actually back to where it began.. tennis originated from a female ballet danser.. has she been reincarnated?
@@IntuitiveTennis At least make a video showing how to crush underhand serves! Played against someone who just does underhand with a bizarre curve/spin! 🤷
Watch Anna learn her serve rhythm 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2LQvpHO59nE/v-deo.html
Hey, which racquet is it?
Mr. Nikola Aracic, so aptly named, is a genius at unlocking the untapped potential of any student in simplistic yet methodical steps that “click” within a student. You surely noticed how Anna was an audio/visual learner and promptly tailored your expertise to fit her schema. If that doesn’t tell you how brilliant and passionate this man is I don’t know what will. Forever grateful for your little ‘slice’ of heaven and please do keep up the fantastic work. Thank you.
🙏🙏
I love the way she laughs and giggles while trying to improve her skills. That's something we tend to forget to do when were playing this great sport. Sometimes we get to competitive
EXOTIC!
U r a effing good coach. The high five drill engaged her natural interest as well as instinctively taught her the mechanics of the lean and transfer of body weight. Mad respect.
Yeah, that was a super smart drill.
Anna's videos are my favorite, she's very enthusiastic and genuine about learning the sport. Another great video coach! Quickly becoming my favorite tennis channel on youtube!
Anna is legend
The 1-2-3-----high five is golden! It is helping me learn the motion and sequence. Thank you!
Thank you so much 🙏🙏 Glad you are finding the high five useful 💯
This is one of the best serve instructional videos that I have see; a lot of complex ideas covered quickly and simply. Best of all, you got Anna to achieve a good racquet naturally and without telling her.
The best part about this video is the stark difference between Anna’s serve action at the start and how it grows into the correct action at the end. Also, your statement about the perfect toss being difficult to achieve is so relatable. Awesome content!
Interesting to watch. Her move transforms from a stationary ballet pose (2:45) to a beautiful tennis style (11:30) in a few minutes. Very nice, but still to go. We wait until Anna hits it like a pro.
She needs to practice more, a lot
This lessons with her are great for me. I've started playing this month and already got a huge improvement due to your vídeos. Thank you very much!
Same, these videos with Anna have been very helpful as a beginner starting out
Super step by step serve lesson to a beginner. I like the high five which drove her up to land inside the court on her left foot. Ana is a fast learner. Good work Nick.
I LOVE the high five trick! Instant improvement afterwards 👍. Anna is a very patient learner. I think these videos are extremely helpful for coaches to understand the challenges of introducing skilled to novices. Anna is obviously kinetically aware.
Great vid
Thanks to Anna and you; I learned more from your observed comments and Anna's sequential corrections, than any slowed-down critique version of any top-pro's service. Essentially, allowing ones body to meet the ball as high as possible, is a very up-lifting service.
Timely video. Me and my sister are trying to improve our serve techniques these days. Thankyou for the upload.
Very good video. So much more credible when you see coaches working with real students, instead of pros demonstrating a stroke with their honed pro level technique!
4:39 that serve from Anna was amazing
Best video I’ve seen so far about servings, specially for a beginner like me ❤️ Thanks Nikola!
I love watching Anna's progress. She's a fast learner. I even get jealous of how far she's come already. I am still right where she is in terms of serve and I have been practicing for years. You're a great coach Nick!
You are SUCH a good teacher, I'm learning so much by the way you are breaking down and building technique.
Nik, you give all the answers we need. Thank you.
Anna is an amazing student! Merry Christmas y´all
Anna is progressing rapidly due to your excellent instruction and her hard work!! Thanks to you Nik, I've realized my toss was not into the court enough, just as you helped out Samir and Anna with tossing into the court for easy power!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾
Loving these videos! Starting from absolute scratch and been doing shadow tennis in my living room even before my racket arrived. Signed up for a beginners tournament with only one week now to spare so hoping to go in (with a few practices with friends also) with at least the basics down! Go Nikola and Anna, top quality 😁
Thank you so much
Yeah coach Nik, just watched your previous video on serve lag and I'm very guilty of this after analyzing my own practice serve video recently.. I'm doing too much the "arms up together" technique which causes timing problems and my racquet pauses way too long at the trophy pose and takes away all my power. Trying to correct this now, your videos have been very helpful this year for my game. Wishing you continued success in 2021, maybe hope to visit FL for an on-court lesson, tell Shamir to get ready!
Shamir is waiting for you 😂😂👍👍
Happy Holidays to you and the family Nick! (Love the Anna Lessons...keep em coming in 2021 PLEEEZE!)
Happy holidays
I’ll keep going 💪💪
you are an amazing coach that high five drill was awesome thinking
This is a good teaching for serve practice. Thanks 😎😎😎😎😎
Good job.
Great Coach!
This is just outstanding content.
Thank you
Merry Christmas and happy holidays keep playing tennis 🎾 guys
This video is very helpful for me ♡♡♡ thank you very much
Wow really helpful
So do I. :)
Also, simply practicing the toss is very helpful. Stand in corner and toss straight in line with fence corner.
I am new to tennis and serving. I’ve gotten a lot better at the motion but still struggle with power and consistency. One thing that happened last year when attempting to learn was hitting with the frying pay (open up on the trophy position) instead of keeping the racquet forward and then dropping it out of the trophy position. I actually ended up having a really bad shoulder injury. My only critique is try not to full swing with a frying pan because it adds terrible torque! Watching videos of myself serving helped identify this. It’s really hard to keep the racquet forward and drop behind instead of out in the frying pan.
I wish I could learn from him. My life goal.
Anna is a dancer 100% sure
Hi Nic, vielen vielen Dank dass Du so viele Videos zur Verfügung stellst. Es ist wirklich hilfreich zu sehen, wie der Serve from scratch gelernt werden soll! Sorry if I missed this somewhere, I watched a lot of your videos… but is there anywhere where you show how to position the feet on each side (ad and deuce) - which direction should they point to? Also, I watched a video where you help Sara to fix her foot faults and she also kind of naturally goes into the pin point stance. Would be super helpful to see that next progression. From the 1-2-3 motion to swing path and shifting the weight - do you have a video that shows at what point to move the back foot to pin point? Vielen Dank für die Info wenn du kannst, hope it’s not asking too much. Liebe Grüße aus New York
ua-cam.com/video/gEG6jOIyOz0/v-deo.html
That’s for stances, serve finish I haven’t covered yet on YT other than in lesson like this one ua-cam.com/video/XGOIiiF72uM/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for the quick reply, really appreciate it.❤
8:42 is that an Eagle ? Super...
Saw that too - I think it’s a hawk. Probably looking for lunch.
watch her legs when she claps your hand and when she fixed legs this looked like a serve she was like every beginner moving right leg in front before, this improved in 1 min when one coach told me this:) just 1 word suffice you dont need an hour of talk:)
thanks for the video. Just curious, but is she using an eastern fh grip to serve?
anna very good
Tennis is an open skill sport. It does not matter what you look like when you hit. It matters how well you can control space and time. Treat tennis more like chess and less like gymnastics. Question: “what are you trying to do to your opponent?” Should help. Thank me later
Elbow forward (instead of wrist forward) seems to be common among females: girls to women. Those that throw with elbow forward have that to overcome before hitting good serves.
Youre spending a lot of time with Anna 😉 …I would too!
Anna will be in my dreams tonight. :)
Trying to toss in a windy day is already brutal even if you are a pro.. Nice to see her progress though.
EDIT: Next lesson? Pronation..
Pronation into the contact is a result of sound fundamentals and acceleration 👉 ua-cam.com/video/MyCjfoKddaA/v-deo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis Show that to her! lol
Happy new year!
Goanna
Forward with the head,down with the legs, out with the arms and up all at once.
What's so tough..🙈
Anna have any social media accounts we can follow? Thanks.
IG @annarogers7
Your a Saint :-/
Why do you not teach her to finish on the right side?
Graceful tennis player. Can she do a dance move on the tennis court next time? 🤪
Ima try to high five my door frame. Or something higher.
please soon address her foot faulting that is being caused by her knee bending twice. Of course you mentioned it but it's still there for now. Lets all do our part to end rec tennis foot-faulters! LOL #petpeeves
You are a great coach but I cant focus on the lesson when she is on the screen :)
Watched this several times and have not learned anything!!!
Isa’t Anna using a wrong grip? It doesn’t look like a continental grip.
Yah, I think its forehand grip
Noticed this as well. She slips into an eastern forehand grip although it seems like it may be corrected in the final serves shown from behind the baseline.
She is using continental, it does slide back to the forehand side which reminded her but cut it from this vid bc we covered it here 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2LQvpHO59nE/v-deo.html
She's a cutie pie. Looking forward to when you bust the continental grip on her!
She is using continental, it does slide back to the forehand side which reminded her but cut it from this vid bc we covered it here 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2LQvpHO59nE/v-deo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis Ok then, looking forward to seeing you move her away from the waiter tray. :))
@@jag3384 she doesn’t have waiter tray. The racquet drops sufficiently but she’s not pronating into contact (on edge) which might take a months or longer depending how much work she puts into serve.
@@IntuitiveTennis Ok you're the expert Nick but my definition is, if the palm goes up, even if there's some racket drop, it's waiter tray b/c palm up kills the looping motion.
@@jag3384 if a waiter served food with a "racquet drop" everything would fall of the tray. Shallow or no racquet drop is the waiter serve.
Hi,. The Ana is very pretty and play well
I think Ana just gave tennis just a whole different dimension.. actually back to where it began.. tennis originated from a female ballet danser.. has she been reincarnated?
Lovely dress.... hehe
No shame in teaching her the underhand serve. 😜
Not a fan of it 🤚😂
@@IntuitiveTennis if you’re showing us the ‘tweener’, isn’t everything else fair game?! 😂
Fair enough but something about underhand rubs me the wrong way
Not a fan
@@IntuitiveTennis At least make a video showing how to crush underhand serves! Played against someone who just does underhand with a bizarre curve/spin! 🤷
@@sportscastercanada I will for sure
:)
Please please please replace Anna. I only focus on Anna. I dont hear you dont see the tips. The only things i see is Anna Anna Anna .
She is to pretty for a tennis lesson
in tennis, men and women do not hit the same way, especially especially on serves.