Poll: How many times you bounce the ball before you serve?
For me, it's one. Just once. Sometimes, rarely, if my service motion is somehow interrupted or I need to adjust my grip etc, I bounce the ball
second time, but never more than that. My regular playing mate does not bounce the ball at all.
On 27/08/2024 5:57 pm, Yama wrote:
Poll: How many times you bounce the ball before you serve?
For me, it's one. Just once. Sometimes, rarely, if my service motion
is somehow interrupted or I need to adjust my grip etc, I bounce the
ball second time, but never more than that. My regular playing mate
does not bounce the ball at all.
1 or zero usually, but recently I've been forced to bounce it a few
times as my opponents often complain I'm quick serving. This annoys me
as you're supposed to play at the server's pace. I never hold up the server, always make sure I'm ready to receive if they're ready to go. So
now I'm changing my patterns to bounce it about 6 times or so so I don't
have to deal with the 'I wasn't ready' crap.
Poll: How many times you bounce the ball before you serve?
For me, it's one. Just once. Sometimes, rarely, if my service motion is somehow interrupted or I need to adjust my grip etc, I bounce the ball
second time, but never more than that. My regular playing mate does not bounce the ball at all.
Always has been four bounces for me. Four just felt right to me. If I got distracted by my opponent(s) or a ball from another court, I would go back to my four bounces.-- ---------------Scall5
Yama, assuming you are right handed, do you drag your right foot up to
the baseline and pause and flex, even if only momentarily, or do you
simply flex your knees to coincide with the top of the toss without the
foot drag?
No right/wrong answer. I did the latter. I think it is required by a relatively low toss.
Too lazy today to get good examples of either, but will get them if it
helps.
Sawfish kirjoitti 28.8.2024 klo 4:01:
Yama, assuming you are right handed, do you drag your right foot up to
the baseline and pause and flex, even if only momentarily, or do you
simply flex your knees to coincide with the top of the toss without
the foot drag?
No right/wrong answer. I did the latter. I think it is required by a
relatively low toss.
Too lazy today to get good examples of either, but will get them if it
helps.
I do drag my right feet a bit as you describe. Not much of a pause
though. My toss is low and inconsistent, never learned the proper way.
I once saw Emma Laine practise her toss during hitting session: it's
pretty cool how a Tour professional can get even that simple thing look
so different to us hacks. It went up and down straight as a ruler,
always to same height and landed at her fingers with millimetre
precision. Like it was molded in concrete if that makes sense.
I just hadn't paid attention to that so much before, when player does a complete serve one tends to look at the racquet, and toss is just kinda there.
On 28/08/2024 7:27 pm, Yama wrote:
Sawfish kirjoitti 28.8.2024 klo 4:01:
Yama, assuming you are right handed, do you drag your right foot up
to the baseline and pause and flex, even if only momentarily, or do
you simply flex your knees to coincide with the top of the toss
without the foot drag?
No right/wrong answer. I did the latter. I think it is required by a
relatively low toss.
Too lazy today to get good examples of either, but will get them if
it helps.
I do drag my right feet a bit as you describe. Not much of a pause
though. My toss is low and inconsistent, never learned the proper way.
I once saw Emma Laine practise her toss during hitting session: it's
pretty cool how a Tour professional can get even that simple thing
look so different to us hacks. It went up and down straight as a
ruler, always to same height and landed at her fingers with millimetre
precision. Like it was molded in concrete if that makes sense.
I just hadn't paid attention to that so much before, when player does
a complete serve one tends to look at the racquet, and toss is just
kinda there.
I've never caught a toss in my life. I have lots of friends who are constantly catching it and trying again, much to my amusement. Just
throw the ball into your swing rather than swing at the ball. It's an
old Bill Tilden tip.
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