How To Aim Your Serve
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
- Practice aiming out wide, at the body, and down the “T” to help you hold serve more often.
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Drills -
1. Practice throwing to targets from close to the net
2. Practice mini serves to targets from close to the net
3. Practice serving from the service line and no-man’s land to the same targets
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Serving -
1. Practice serving and knowing where the ball needs to cross over the net to hit your target
2. Simply change where your strings point at contact to change where the ball goes
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How To Aim Your Serve
Of the channels I watch this is by far one of the best. Thanks !
You are really honest and humble : " Down the T is my worst serve ! :-) " I like the way you teach, your demonstration is very clear and useful.
Ryan...you have a wonderful technique on the service,it seems effortless but powerful at he same time and your lessons are simple and always on point,thanks once again.
Wow thank on you. I really appreciate the kind words. Have an awesome weekend!!
@@2MinuteTennis Thank on You Ryan! You're putting efforts, well, more efforts! So we're much thankful.
Have a pleasant time ahead, always!
Great video! My favorite part. “This is frustrating” into “We can all improve”. Sometimes that’s all we need, because I think we all get to the frustrating part… it’s about working through it.
Hey Ryan great video. I've recently started playing tennis again after 15 years, and all these videos on the channel have been awesome. Great coaching!
What I really love about your videos is you're not editing out imperfect demonstrations.
Thanks so much Darren. Yeah I just keep them in bc everyone misses. I want to be relatable to players. And, editing mistakes takes so much time that it’s not worth it. Thanks for the support!
I get excellent variation in placement just by aiming straight down the middle every time. Heh.
Omg same 😅
Lmao so true 🤣
That’s very well explained and demonstrated.. Thank You!
Makes perfect sense! Aimed at the net instead of landing spot. Great tips
You are an amazing teacher. This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Thanks for the awesome lessons and tips. My serves have gone up a notch with these lessons and now winning games
Thank you so much for making learning fun and practical. Before I watched this video, I thought I could never place the serve where I wanted. It's a mental issue that I have now overcome.
I like the progression.
This has helped me so much. I watched this video before a tennis lessons and I had 5 aces. Thank you so much, keep up the good work!
As always, simply brilliant!
I owe you a lot, Ryan! Thank you so much!
My serve better than before,Thank you so much teacher.
Very good tips. Thanks
Great suggestions. Love the placement of the tubes. Excellent visuals.
Love your affability on that T serve. I’ve started aiming way to right just to get that! Sooo challenging..you rock!!
Thank you so much. Yeah, t serve on deuce side is such a challenge. Ad side is easy for me. My fav serve and rarely miss. Crazy. Thanks so much!!!
Thank you so much for helping us understand!!! Visualization is the key element to succeed and those exercises approves that you are one of a kind!!!
This is great Ryan. Thanks for the video and loved the editing! Cheers!
Nice class, Teacher Ryan. Regards from Taubaté-SP, Brasil.
Really enjoyed that. Makes absolute sense. Can’t wait for COVID to ease so I can get out and try it
This was incredibly helpful, thanks.
Thank you Michelle!!
Perfect!!! Totally motivating.
I really appreciated your tips and lessons which are really helpful to me. your explanation is very easy to understand, so even beginners like me are able to follow and practice without any difficulties. you are the best coach I have ever met!!!!! :)
Wow I’m so happy to hear the videos are helping. You got this!!!
Great video, good ideas to work on. You have a nice effortless looking slice serve!😀
Very helpful, thanks!
Really great!
I’ve been using all your videos to teach my 10 & 14 Y. O. There great!!! A tip to improve your serve to the T on the Duce side. Pull your right foot back a little.
I do love Ryan's channel and agree with 99% of the times, but his stance drives me crazy. When he said his T serve deuce side was his aquilles, it didn't surprise me.
So useful!
Sooo here's a thing. Whether I'm practicing or in a game, I can more or less aim my serve, enough that I can at least have a good starting point for practicing further, IF I don't do the racquet drop in my wind up. If I let the head of my racquet drop down my back to generate that racquet speed, I have NO idea where the serve will go; it will likely be in, but will it be out wide? Body? T? Nooo idea. If I DON'T do the racquet drop, I place it a whole lot better. And I have no idea why.
And thanks again for these terrific videos!
Andrew
Thank you!!
Wow thanks for this video...I will try to teach this lesson to my sons..it can be simply following the movement like you 😍
This is excellent.
Good drills
Ryan thank you.
I love your content man! The best tip so far was on another video where you mentioned hitting up when behind the baseline. It really improved my consistency!
Can you tell us which video are you refering to? Thanks.
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I've nailed the serve on the wall and this will help a lot the fine tune.
Hey, I have a question. I recently bought a tennis storage cover for my raquet and I have no idea how I'm supposed to wear it. My class starts in an hour so could you please help me?
@@keeraray3208 Yeah I can help you. Present yourself at a hospital and tell them you've sustained a head injury that you fear may have made you a permanent cretin.
Hi Ryan,
I love you channel and all the great tips. Where would you place the ball tubes on the net for aiming on the ad side?
Excellent! 🙂
Hey thank you Matthew!!!!
Good ideas
Thanks Ryan, this video is a great help. I've improved a lot after practicing on your tips.
Keep up the good work!
Great!👍
I use several methods which work for me. shifting my body facing, shifting my baseline position, changing my grip slightly. All these alter the strings facing and therefore allows me to target wide center or T. Cheers
Ryan is cash money at tennis instruction! Thanks #2minutetennis
Haha thanks Sam!! Appreciate it
Hey Ryan. I'm left handed. So, if I'm serving into the deuce court, aiming for the "T" where should the ball be crossing the net?
Great explanation, i have a questioni, is it more useful to emprove during a match with friends focusing in only a target for example today only T, or change continously the target? Thank you in Advance. Mauro
I have a question for you 2 minute tennis what racket do you recommend for a intermediate player that likes lighter rackets
using your standing on a skate board analogy and facing your opponent for the serve do we stand directed then towards where we want the ball to go. I don't know if I'm making sense here?
Just discovered your channel and love it!
Re aiming, I find thinking of hitting the appropriate side of the ball helps ie outside half for out wide and inside half for down T as a RH on deuce side. Find this more helpful than thinking where racket face is pointed. What are your thoughts?
Thanks for finding me rohit!! And yes, I use that idea a lot with my students. I’ll make a video soon sharing the idea of hitting different parts of the ball. Thanks!!!
@@2MinuteTennis thanks Ryan. Phew glad that's a good thing. Look forward to more instructional videos. Your forehand stuff in particular has really helped my weaker wing. Could you do one on mental processes and committing to a process on your weaker wing under pressure. I find I revert to the more comfortable slice forehand and net rush on bigger points under pressure.
Coach Ryan - once again you deliver. Great stuff.
Do you try to toss in the same spot?
Funny you have problem with T Deuce serve. I can make that serve and that is my usual placement. I struggle with the wide serve. I really want a Johnny Mac "can opener" serve (yes I know he was a Lefty and his can opener was to the Ad side) that opens up the court so I can volley at net. Or at least keep my opponent from cheating towards the middle. The down the T serve is only effective if you can also swing it wide at will.
J the deuce side T serve is so hard for me. I try to stay sideways and I still struggle with it. My our wide serve improved when I simply just aimed for the dubs alley in practice. Then “out wide” wasn’t so extreme anymore and became easier. Keep working and we’ll both improve our weaknesses. Cheers. 😊👍🎾
@@2MinuteTennis The other funky thing is that my Ad serve invariably goes in the corner, but I have had trouble going down the T on the Ad side. Again the extreme corner does me no good if the receiver cheats in the alley looking for it. A friend said, okay to go down the T on Ad side just aim to left of the T (just as you did that on Deuce side, aim to right of T) and you know what? then I started hitting close to the T on Ad side. I can somewhat spot the serve but I change my toss. Next step is to use same toss for all these placements! And sometimes I say to myself I am just going to hit this hard and I don't care where it goes don't know where it will go and neither will you! the receiver.
I want to congratulate you Coach on your excellent videos to improve the different stokes that one faces during a match. Just for curiosity, what was your ATP classification before you started coaching, and it what Club do you teach.
Hi Miguel. I never played pro tennis. Never had any aspirations to. I only ever wanted to be a coach. So I’m living my dream. And I teach at a club near Philadelphia Pa. but I also give live private zoom lessons to players looking to improve their technique. You can go to 2MinuteTennis.net to book your lesson with me. Thanks!!!
Well, Nice to meet You Coach Ryan, I hope some day I Will be able to suscribe to One your clases by Zoom, and meanwhile I Will keep watching your clases on UA-cam.
Superb
I really appreciate you saying that!
is that met or is it no explanation on how to aim? just basically train? the serve is composed of so many different pieces like the toss, the direction of racket during the toss, bringing the racket behind the head, leading with the edge then pronating then making contact at an angle that brings the ball in a general direction. so if you hit a flat serve you might surmise (although it is said nowhere) that you should try to somehow have the angle at the time of contact face where you want the ball to go. Then you have the effects like slice that will make the ball curve to the left or kick that will make the ball curve (i believe) to the left - speaking as a right handed player. So then you have a compound movement. i might have answered my own question but it does remain one unknown. Is the direction that the racket travel towards (the edge of the racoket) reallly always the same? i might be confusing my self here but i am still looking for the answer on how to aim !
Hi Ryan, this applies for flat serve only or slice serve as well? Thanks
Both serves. Thanks so much!!!
Seems like you are just changing the target. Maybe it helps to have a target that is ~21ft closer - is that the point? Is the assumption that players are aiming for the net when they are aiming their serve? If the net was not there would they be able to hit the cones?
how do i hit basic serves like these 5:10 without even having to trying to hit it lightly or trying to hit it really hard? when I try.. its like Its either a tap or i try to hit with full power but that's still slow < [ I'm a beginner so I'm not expecting to hit like 80 mph+ or whatever ]
I think ball placement does come down to visualisation and lots of practice. I think serving can be very dependent on how much spin you put on the side of the ball- a bit like a free kick in football (soccer). I remember David Beckham talking about how he could bend free kicks into places in the goalmouth and I think a lot of serving placement is mental visualisation and lots of repetition.
When aiming do you adjust your grip at address, your hand at contact or your body during swing?
Grip can be adjusted to impart spin (flat vs slice). Grip does not relate to placemen t and aiming... Stance? Some players adjust foot stance for placement but I take this video to mean that is not required. Video says aiming is mostly mental, so just mentally aim and the proper contact will happen. Remember: the difference between a down the T and wide serve is is only a few degrees of racquet face tilt. Just mentally aim... Instructor can confirm @2MinuteTennis
@@Better_Call_Raul how can placement be a mentality...you have to adjust something....to be clear different teachers say very different things about the point of aiming serves....some suggest you manipulate your hand at contact (which seems extremely hard to repeat) some say you adjust grip slightly....and some say adjust body....I just find it tough to hear that you just do (so it's some combination)....so I am looking to find a definitive view on this...if the placement is a matter of 12 degrees in racquet face angle in the service box...that is a very small adjustment to make to a swing mid swing..
Is it slice serve ?
My philosophy is first you must have a intention of where you want to place the ball. Cos even with intention, the ball may or may not land where you intent. Due to the fact that the swing is fast and the angle of the racquet face is miss aligned for that particular shot. Of course like I always said, slower down your swing might help.
Not sure if this question is related but Im a beginner and I recently bought a tennis storage cover bag and I have no idea how I'm supposed to wear it. Can someone please tell me how it's worn?
What brand is it?
It's Artengo
Harry please keep the comments on my videos positive or don’t comment. Thank you.
I want to have my own tennis court before I try this
Well, I didn't see you hitting a kick serve into the right spot. Probably because it is quite impossible? And if not, how to aim a kick serve?
You’ll aim a kick serve the same as any shot. Think about it in your mind and try it. The pros kids their targets all the time. (Every time they hit the net and hit out they missed their target. They miss their targets on serves even when they get it in the box. Missing is part of tennis. Keep practicing.
This is kinda like a life lesson - people complain about their results in life but most of them never had an aim or goal in the first place.
Ryan, I noticed that for each of the three serves you stood slightly more to the right of where you stood. When you served to the body, you stood slightly more to the right of where you stood for the out-wide serve and the same for the T-serve. Was that incidentally or purposefully?
Completely accidental. :) thanks for noticing though. Good eye!
Lol I just try to get it in the box 😫😫
Same lol
I am one of those people who feel comfortable down the T rather than away or body :D
Haha we all have our strengths. Thanks!!
@@2MinuteTennis That imaginary target for down the T is so right!!! I like to go to the backhand side of righthanders
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As a professional coach of 40+ years myself, imagining and hoping is not a strategy. Actual control of the ball happens at the POC with the racket face. Your scissor step into the court in your demo is not a modern technique anymore either. Sorry for the unflattering feedback, but this serve instruction could be of a higher standard imho! The visual concepts are not bad.
No offense taken? Do you have videos on this subject I can watch?
@@2MinuteTennis
Nothing yet...but I have thought about it!
One thing you’ll learn when making content is you’ll never be able to please every player or every coach. 😊
I’ve also learned over the years that the only coaches who criticize my videos are the ones who don’t make content themselves.
@@2MinuteTennis
You only have to please your audience and your members at your club. Which I’m sure you do! Your enthusiasm for the game definitely shows!
The problem is to hide your aim, but you didn't address this problem.
I thought this was going to be about how to aim, not how to practice aiming.
Sorry to disappoint you. 😊🎾👍
Too much sides for down the T. More pronation and flatten your racket head.
You should never "aim' your serve. You should "hit" it. Too many people try and aim the ball instead of hitting it.