Learn these 3rd shot drops, change your game! (beginner to advanced) 

Thanks for coming out to the session! I did notice that was helping you. I also really liked your serve, keep up with that!

So true. I can relate. I’m a newer player but played tennis for a long time. So I’m green but getting better at a decent rate. Im trying to meet new players, but currently I’m in the middle ground of where most players lie. I’m either way better than someone, or they’re way better than me. So that makes it hard. It’s a weird spot. I don’t have an official rating I’m probably sitting at like a 3.6-3.75. The players that are in my area, from what I’ve seen either 60+ and well below 3.5, or 20-50 and at like a 4.2 minimum. So finding that small minority of my skill is quite hard. I know DUPR shows ratings but that’s it. At some point I’ll be moving to a larger city or surrounding area once I’m done school for my job so the player base will probably go up naturally

And I appreciate you stopping by!

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ha. I do too, but I do it when I really play and he is doing it because he is demonstrating just the technique of a third shot drop.

Looks like it is the pro control. Not sure if elongated or not.

I was wondering as well.

I first used his teaching on the paddle top-pointing-swing-hard-without-paddle-turning for the serve. It works very well to create a flat trajectory which does not bounce very high landing near the baseline. This feels like lagging the paddle and does not require timing to close the paddle face on a hard serve. Variations are same grip and paddle lag, but using a push-to-target motion instead of a hard swing. The paddle prep to the opponent looks the same but the power output is less which chages the speed of the ball to a half shot or 70% shot. If the opponent is caught at the baseline after a few hard hits, suddenly slowing the return of the ball like that can create a return error or a pop up.

No, it’s not.

No the serve is not illegal.