I taught tennis for over 40 years, and this is actually great advice for beginning and intermediate players who struggle to use their legs properly when they serve. If you tell a lot of players to “bend their knees,” they’ll do a useless squat and then toss the ball up after their legs have already straightened. Obviously this instructor is a fine server. If he can explain this idea and demonstrate it to struggling servers, it eliminates the whole “knee bend” idea: when you lean backward, your knees MUST bend, and they’ll bend more or less properly. The average player at a tennis academy may not need this advice-but it’s good for everyone else.
Hi there, yt seems to block comment that has url. So I update the link in my video description. You can have a look :-D The item is so rare. I feel lucky to see it popping up in recommendation lol.
Arching the back isn't the correct way to approach this. Go watch RU-vid Serve videos by Patrick Dougherty to see what I mean. Patrick Dougherty teaches at Nick Bolletteri's academy now know as the IMG Academy and Pat has coached some of the best juniors in the world who later became world class players. You do want to get your chest facing upwards and you do want a bit of stretch on your front hip flexor but don't think arch the back. Federer actually gets nearly zero back arch and you can draw a straight line from his knees to this shoulder when he serves. Federer leans back from the knees instead of arching his back. This video is a miss for me.
@@keithhayes844 Becker can barely walk now. Djokovic has a fairly straight line from his knees to his shoulders. Yes, you want to get your chest facing upwards and yes, there is some back bend. But telling rec players to bend back is a bit dangerous without context. Edberg had some back bend too but he hit almost all kick serves and he retired at 29. Think of the lean back from from the thighs and knees and not arching the back is healthier and effective.
Yes it's helpful for any level as we can see whether the action is good or not right away. I can't show the videos of my friends doing this for you to have better perspective. We still can achieve the action without this tool. It's just that the teacher needs to know what he's teaching (being able to do the action to know how it should feel) 😃
I managed to achieve the action before acquiring this tool. So I kinda know how I should feel when striking the ball. This equipment definitely improves my technique and leg/core strength more 🤓 It's a demanding workout.
So many rec players don't have the strength and conditioning/flexibility to bend that much. I used to play some very talented juniors and one in particular blew out his back, over loading his back from bending on huge kick serves. I would say this is a good demo but its in harmony with other foundational elements that have not been discussed in this video. For many this will be the last part of the equation to add more power and spin after toss, trophy, racket path, and consistency are in place. Just a thought, knee bend and weight on toes helps take pressure of that low back. Your technique is great and your quite talented. I just mention this to people so that they error on the side of caution when trying something like this with out the proper fundamentals or coach - injuries are very very common.
You don’t have to bend as much as the guy in the video-you just have to have everything coordinated. Michael Stich of Germany had one of the smoothest and most beautiful serves ever, and he had just a slight back bend-but it was all perfectly coordinated. Boris Becker was an extreme example of what this instructor is saying. Both amazing servers, both Wimbledon champions. 🏆🙂
Hi there, it's 14kg (so around 31lbs). It's certainly extremely soft and comfortable. No graphite racquet that I have is as comfortable as this. Softness of wood (or natural materials like gut) is unique to composite materials. Natural materials stiffness are pretty much the same no matter how much it is deformed. Stiffness from composite materials, like graphite or polyester strings we have today, increase the more they are deformed. So they feel harsh, stiffer when we hit the ball harder. I don't know the level as I don't live and play in US system 😅
Hi, Alex! I do like a soft racket (play a 100x Phantom 58RA and a P100 55RA, with extra weight added), so playing with a wooden one would be up my alley, but If only I was able to hit the sweet spot! So, yes, exactly, I should do it to learn to hit the sweet spot! How low should I string it?!
Hi there, do you mean the wooden racquet (if you have one) or your Phantom? My wooden racquet in the video is strung at 14kg. The string pattern is very dense (18x18) with small head size. So I think I can go as low as I want without losing any control 😅. I use a very soft Pro Kennex Black Ace Pro in the second half of the video. It is strung at 23kg. I use affordable Pro's Pro strings only. Prince 16x18 has pretty close spacing, unlike other brands. You can experiment from 17kg to 25+kg if you want. Of course it depends a lot on your string of choice also. It's personal and I can't give you exact kg 😅 I only suggest, string as low tension as you can control the shots.
@@TenniswithAlex Mean the wooden one. My 100x is strung with 21kg Black Widow. You beat me badly once with a vintage racket already a couple of years ago, maybe you still have the vid about that up on yt. :)
Hi, How can you play 1 year with wilson sensation? I broke the 15G after 20min. Do you hit mostly flat? Are you using 10x12 string savers? Isn't that too much?
I have quite a lot of racquets to rotate, so that's why. I also don't hit with much spin though. About the number of string saver, there's no rule for how many pieces we can add. I just try to increase string movement and it seems fine. Adding a lot of pieces will substantially increase string tension though 😃
I don't try to go all in, but use this racquet as the tool to refine the technique. Yeah my shoulder, elbow, wrist will complain if I make wrong move and the racquet will punish me. Luckily, everything is intact 😂
I've also heard that hitting the ball farther in front of you creates more topspin, because the racquet path is naturally more vertical when the racquet is far from your body. On the other hand, most players have a swing path that is more straight close to their body. If this is true, it means you need to swing earlier for topspin, and swing later for flat shots (assuming the same swing path).
Hi there 😃 it's just about how the angle between the racquet swing and racquet face. If the racquet is perpendicular to racquet swing, ball has no spin and vice versa. We can look at top table tennis players. They play with continental grip, hit "late" compared to tennis forehand, but create way more RPM than Rafa 🙂
The ending knot is what is called in tennis the wilson pro knot. Its is esthetic but a little to thin for badminton. You may go directly for rhe Parnell knot or use the first one but twist the loop one time before putting the main string through 😉
Yeah I've done that for years. And actually as the main strings are longer, putting stiffer strings in mains makes more sense. Outside the sweet spot, areas around 3 and 9 o'clock feel a lot more forgiving 😊.
@@TenniswithAlex I only once made a poly/poly hybrid in a Pro Staff 90 Hypercarbon. I took Pros Pro Vendetta 1.25mm in the mains and Pros Pro Lethal 1.24mm in the crosses. Vendetta is a soft poly and very cheap. I was surprised about the result. I think, it depends very on the racquet, what you take in the mains and in the crosses. PS 90 Hypercarbon has a very closed stringbed around the PWS area. I play an eastern grip on my forehand.
Yeah I saw that pair. It should be good for badminton too. As I improve, I decided to go back to badminton shoes as I don't need much cushioning but agility. Otherwise basketball shoes are too slow for me now 😀. Some "indoor sports" shoes have thinner midsole work well with me. Some of my big friends hate badminton shoes and pick volleyball shoes for more cushioning. Works great for them 😊.
Yes, especially when you don't have the starting clamp. Otherwise, manufacturers nowadays recommend to use starting clamp to hold the string. After stringing all the crosses, go back to the first cross and do the normal ending knot 😀.
I don't sell them in ebay. I share the 3D design in my latest video. Feel free to use it if you're interested 😊. I play mostly with Pro Kennex Black Ace Pro and Head Gravity MP now. I'd currently prefer soft racquets and always want to go back to the Pro Kennex. Sometimes I play with wooden racquet also. The softness of organic material (wood) is more pleasant than carbon, similar to natural gut 😀.
I keep them original, don't even add any lead tape either. After long journey of racquet modification, I see that every racquet is good as it is, if I'm patient enough to play with it. I added tape, then removed it. Certainly racquets perform differently, but I don't play better or worse. I don't have to be too paranoid about specs 😁. I still have 28", 29" and even shortened 26,5" racquets to rotate around. They're all fun on their own 😊.
A pro told me they do not hit higher bouncing topspin balls anymore to avoid being taking advantage of the opponent. How to hit heavy topspin ball which also has lower net clearance by manipulating wrist to guide the swing path?
I'm sorry for late reply. The test ball (put in pressurized tube) and good ball bounce higher than other bad ones. You can use the white paper on the wall in the test clip as the reference 😀 The test and good one can reach the paper height. Bad ones can't. From far away, it looks very subtle. But it's very noticeable when we play with them.
The next tutorial should be, 'what Kyrgios has done NOT to achieve any greater than a 500 series win after being on tour for 9 years'. There's an ex-Australian 'big serve' player by the name of Mark Philippoussis. His serve was just as lethal, but unlike Kyrgios, Philippoussis got to his first GS final in just 4 years after turning pro (also made it to the Wimbledon final in 2003), he won a Masters (something Kyrgios has failed to do), achieved a career high ranking within the top 10 (something Kyrgios has failed to do), won the Queens tournament on grass (Kyrgios is supposed to be a great grass court player but so far has failed to win a tournament on grass) ... and, I could go on and on about the facts and failures of Kyrgios. It makes me laugh how people think Kyrgios is so great and he's such a talented player, but there's no REAL evidence to suggest this and in my opinion (after playing and watching tennis since the late 70's), Kyrgios is no more talented than the other young 'top crop' on the circuit today.
