Thanks James for excellent lesson! I am a 76 year old 4.0 tennis player and have had problems with my ball toss for the last 20 years. I have probably watched every ball toss video on the internet. Your wall toss lesson is by far the best and the most helpful lesson for me. Until I watched your video, I didn't realize the significant impact the shoulder turn has on the toss. Keep up the good work!
Hi James. Are you demonstrating a jay toss? What if a player isn't trying to do the jay toss? Does the ball have to then go straight up and down over the X?
Aunque lo Ideal seria lanzar la pelota al mismo sitio, mismo punto, valdria ese saque para los tres saques, o pondrias modificaciones, Federer, Sampras tienen un poco mas de holgura, no?
I didn't do this wall exercise but I tried the arc tossing serve and my placement was much better! My problem was too many of my tosses were too far off to the right and not inside the court enough. I had been obsessed with trying to get the ball to go straight up and down but I now realize that's actually harder to do than an arc. Just need to practise it now so it's second nature!
but won't it mess up the force of the toss ? since inside at home, you can't release it with full force otherwise you will hit the ceiling and break the ceiling.
I have a chronically bad habit of releasing the ball late so it ofter ends up going far to left. Any suggests to cure my late ball release? Thanks, Jason
Thanks for the tips James. I have found these at home exercises very beneficial in establishing a base when going out on court, or helping to refocus if things start to go wrong on court. I have a question with the toss though. Should the underside of the forearm and the palm be pointing up or to the right. A straight arm action is possible with both.
Try spinning the ball with top-spin out of your hand so that when you hit the top-spin serve you will have something extra on it (called the Magnus Force). It is simple physics. The faster you spin it you will be surprised with the result. As the physics professor, I know plenty of stuff you might try. Spin also stabilizes the toss out of your hand.
Almost all toss instruction videos say not to spin the ball because it will be easier to hit. Would the top spin sometimes carry the ball away too far in front? I did like your advice. Do you have more ideas?
Richard Smith any soin on the ball may slow down the spin you want create on your serve so if the ball is steady you actually have a very neutral ball just waiting for whatever you want to create with your shot.same concept works on the hight of your toss, the more you can get the hit at the point when the ball is at the top of the curve, the more you will have a ball which is light as no gravity weight on it. If you hit in the exact moment before the ball starts coming down you won’t have any weight on the ball and you will get much more power with less effort....it also doesn’t move and you will hit the ball right in the sweet spot of the strings, with more pop effect and of course power Cheers
@@smithcook1 What carries the ball away too far in front is the early ball release...when the release is late the ball goes behind...so the release should be at eyes level
Great lesson! I live in an apartment with a low ceiling. Can this drill be done while on my knees, and is there anything modifications or adjustments to the drill necessary?
