okay let's go back here now the last time we played was a while ago
this is our second session and let's continue where we left off last time
with the serve we're going to do a few from the service line here look you go here toss it and
then make contact on top and finish towards the bottom that's not bad at all but make sure when
you toss the ball you keep the arm straight and then hold it up there for a little bit
make sure the racket doesn't like go like this when you wait in the trophy phase because this is
going to build some bad habits later on the racket has to be on the hitting side of the body you see
like the racket has to be on your right side that's very important you go here keep the
arm up a little bit like make it look like this keep the arm up a little bit longer
okay no not straight bent this arm like this bent yeah throw it a little bit higher because you want
to make contact with your arm fully extended on top so you want to throw it as high as you can
okay actually you know what let's serve to the other box it's a little bit easier so slide over
here i'm going to throw it up and you're going to hit it up here on top here we go hit it up there
good do it again okay hit it that way come on good there you go
okay come on much better again much better all right now try tossing it yourself
much better all right let's go back to the baseline let's try from back here all right
if you go right here on the side and you're gonna do the same thing from the baseline okay
all right go in a continental grip continue this forehand grip and go continental right
here and go right here toss the ball up and serve it from here let's see okay do it again
nice and smooth when you toss the ball up okay okay yeah you're doing good make sure make sure
that when you're lining up to serve your foot is not over the line it has to be behind this line
otherwise that's considered a foot fault okay and let me just quickly show you what
the racket's going to do here hold the racket so racket's going to go hold it right grip it
around the thumb racket is going to go from here in here here and it's going to come out on this side
and it's going to go there you can also turn your shoulders as the racket drops
bring the shoulder out bring the shoulder out like this and then go up and then down on this
side i want you to do this exercise okay this is a good exercise to learn the swing of the
racket as it drops you go up here to the trophy position you go down then bring the elbow out
and then swing up and then back down towards your left pocket and then you do it again
see up down up down you watch how i'm doing this continuously don't do it yet just watch me do it
a couple of times and then i'll show you how to do it and then we're going to try look see here here
here i see the racquet is not stopping here here here now look look from this side this goes here
here here like that and just do this for a little while just to learn the way the
racket is going to travel through the air as you're making the the serve motion
put your thumb around the finger we're going to go here here bend the arm in bring the elbow out
here bring it towards your left pocket then make a like a loop and then back out this way this way
this way up and then make a loop here again and then again up try it by yourself
and remember you're hitting the one thing that's important when you go when you go in here you're
gonna hit forward so you can bring this out see this out this this this see as i'm dropping i'm
also bringing this elbow out on this side and then up down like this see try it again so
out to start from the bottom start from the bottom here put your racket down
like this here we go now you're going to bring the racket up okay now it's here okay now what's going
to happen is the racket's going to go down and this is going to come out and now you're going
to swing up in front of you like this and then back down towards your left pocket and then you
make a little loop here and then you do it again okay but do it okay you could do it that way but
it's a little bit more smooth if the racket goes here like diagonally back like this here here here
here and then towards the left pocket and then make a loop here and then do it again
so you go here bend as soon as you drop this comes out okay now you go in up down this is
a little complicated towards your left pocket not the not the shoe okay you're gonna whack yourself
in the leg all right i've done that many times by the way like this this happens all the time
that's why when you learn to go here and you learn to rotate there's less chances that you're going
to hit yourself in the leg if you don't do that you swing down fast you're going to go right here
i got a video on that you just check it out i hit myself on purpose into my in my shin like 10 times
and then my shin blew up the size of a grape like this all right so bend in come out
with the elbow you're hitting that way remember you once the racket look when the racket goes in here
you you got to focus on hitting the ball you're going to rotate towards the ball watch me i go
up now when the elbow is here it comes in when it comes in i got to worry about coming out because
i'm going to hit i'm going to hit from here to here i wasn't doing it right do it again
bend it okay in and now come rotate the body this way rotate the body come out this way is
the contact here's the contact hit the ball hit the ball now come down towards your left pocket
loop the racket no no here loop it this way
and now again same movement it's too complicated no it's not it's not complicated at all try it
again you can do it i'm telling you put the thumb around the middle finger there there you go
in come out this way rotate swing up down towards the left pocket
and i'll loop the racket there this part is not so important do it again now do that like
10 times in a row and then eventually you're going to do it like this see you're going to do it fast
you see this yes watch this it's too complicated no it's not eventually it's going to be so easy
come out rotate and around the pocket loop it back up there you go there you go down loop it and back
up that's number three we need 10 in a row oh you messed up i did i realized that okay remember
once it goes in here now you got to worry about hitting so goes in you go here and
now you're going to hit it in front like that okay so okay again let me give me five more
in rotate hit it there down okay perfect in out and down and out again last one you're doing so
good hit it and come towards your left pocket how easy was that it was not easy all right now
hopefully by doing this exercise when we do it from here you're starting the trophy still can you
see from here watch what my racket's gonna do i'm gonna toss it you see how it's gonna do that same
movement watch again it's gonna go in and then out you see it goes in and then out towards the ball
and then back down around the pocket so go back into the trophy
okay you didn't do this you went like that watch in here this oh i didn't do that you didn't see
this is what you did you went here here here you didn't you didn't loop the racket remember you
got it you gotta loop it you got to go in here out here and then hit it okay watch this it's so
complicated say again it's complicated it might seem complicated now later when this when your
body remembers this movement you're not even going to think about it it's going to happen
naturally but yes it does sound complicated now but i promise you it won't be later okay
that was a lot better but remember when you when you go in here you're gonna come out on this side
watch you come in here you gotta come out on this side okay i wasn't gonna hit you i know
all right here we go how tall are you by the way uh five eight and a half five eight and a half
you know that's the perfect high for tennis right serena is five i think is five nine
perfect you can it doesn't really matter in tennis like you can be super tall
and have some advantages and disadvantages you can be short and have advantages and disadvantages
but it turns out like the optimal height for women is five nine serena some of the greatest
of all time were five nine all right here we go the elbow does not have to be that high it
probably feels uncomfortable you can put it down a little bit the elbow can be below the level of the
shoulder right there feels more comfortable so you can be slightly below the level of the shoulder
okay that one you didn't you didn't really drop it at all
yeah you went like you went like here here here which by the way it'll get your serve
in it works a lot of players start that way and they can get the ball in they can play but
problem is that you build muscle memory that way and it becomes harder to learn this part
which is called the racket drop it's harder to learn it later on when this muscle memory is
already developed so this is a great opportunity since you really never served before so right from
the scratch you start learning to drop the racquet properly and then you don't have to fix anything
later the toss is hard right yeah very hard you know why because you don't really throw anything
with the left hand ever right how much do you do with the left hand not much on the right
me too like everyone that's a righty has a hard time doing anything with the left
and vice versa so this is why the toss is so challenging because we're doing it with the hand
that really doesn't do anything you know all right so it's just a matter of practice try again
okay now remember you you got to hit it that way
so the way you aim in tennis is by turning the racket towards the target so if i turn
my racket like this the ball goes there see if i turn my racket like this the ball goes there
so when you're hitting that way you just turn your racket towards the target a little more okay
okay good hold on one second one thing i don't that was actually not bad here put your racket
up one thing i noticed that i really don't like i don't like how your wrist is going back the racket
can be going forward slightly so the wrist is more in a natural position so you're going like this
you're straining your wrist the racket is pointing straight up
it doesn't have to be that way it can be slightly pointing forward
in a trophy phase like that so the tip of the racket is slightly pointing forward
you do one more not bad at all all right it's not going in the box yet but we'll get there