are you struggling to get power on your
serve well there's a lot of ways to get
power on the serve and to learn how to
do it but in today's lesson i'm going to
show you how you can use your fingers
to get more relaxation and to get more
power on your surf my name is jeff
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i am
affectionately known as the serve
surgeon because i am so passionate about
the serve and been studying it for years
and in today's video
we're going to talk about how you can
learn
to relax your hand and take tension
out of the hand so that you can get that
easy power that you see the pros doing
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all right so in this lesson today one of
the common issues that i see with
players is they just grip the racket too
darn tight
not only do they grip the ti the racket
too tight
but they actually hold the racket too
high now i know i'm exaggerating right
now but there are some players that
serve in this position right here
so you've got players that are gripping
too tight you've got players that are
holding the hand
too high up on the racket and then you
have players using what's called the
block what i call the block grip where
there's no space between the fingers and
the knuckles are in a line like this
it's like the hand is like one big block
and you're not going to have any feel if
you do that
so the suggestion that i have is number
one to move the hand down the racket but
number two
spread the index finger out more so that
the hand is more angled on the racket
now the tip i want to give you today
is called the three finger tip
very simple
you're going to
lower this hand here in this position
and you'll notice that the heel of the
hand is off of the racket
so what i want you to do is just slide
the pinky off of the racket and start to
swing the racket and just notice
notice what you feel when you do that
you should feel more rel relaxation
you should feel like the the arm and the
racket just moves in an easier fashion
now i want you to go even more extreme
and remove the ring finger off of the
racket so now you have three you have uh
you have the two
uh you have essentially three fingers
you have the thumb we're going to count
as the finger here you have the index
finger and the middle finger and the
thumb
holding on to the racket
and it should feel very effortless and
the racket you just move in a continuous
motion the racket should just drop
naturally
behind the back
we're not we're not focusing on
scratching the back here the racket just
drops because there no there's no
tension
so this should give you a clue that if
you're having a hard time dropping the
racket behind you if you're having a
hard time getting power there's a really
good chance that when you go to serve
you're gripping so tight that the racket
can only get to about here
but notice what happens when i go to the
three finger tip here notice how the
racket naturally drops
notice what happens when i grip tight
notice when i relax like this
so you can practice that you can
practice doing your swings every day and
it's going to it's going to give you
that awareness that you need to to
realize that tennis is not about playing
tennis is not about gripping the racket
too tight so i'm gonna show you
what i would do if i were you if i was
gripping the racket too tight
and not getting the power that i wanted
i grab a couple of balls
and before even tossing the ball i would
just swing the racket
using the three finger tip right here
okay
so
i essentially have again the last two
fingers the pinky finger and the ring
finger off the racket if that feels a
little too loosey-goosey you can always
go just go with having the pinky
finger off of the racquet now you're not
going to going to hit the ball doing
this although you can do it with the
pinky off i wouldn't recommend with the
ring ring finger off as well
but with the pinky off you can practice
it
and
you just want to feel it's not going to
be your normal your normal serve but you
just want to feel
that relaxation and this is tough for
many players because it involves giving
up control see control
is
going to show up when you grip the
racket too tight you have fear you have
control you just want to get the serve
in
giving up control and letting it go
means actually holding the racket lower
and looser
all right so i want you to really pay
attention to your grip tension and i
want you to use the three finger tip to
help you understand your grip tension
and to make those adjustments and to
practice it over time now hope you
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