I am 71 and I have never played so well. I tell my friends it's because of the party hat guy. I never had lessons and I love playing tennis now. My friends aren't listening but I am beating them because of you. I wish I sinew this stuff when I was a kid. I played my 42 year old son for 6 hours today. Just couldn't stop playing. I love learning this game.

Hi Ryan , I’m mani and I’m 17 years old and I’m playing tennis since I was 12 . I always had problems in serve and always disappointed during matches while making a lot of double faults, and after watching this video and practicing for a couple of weeks, I’m now serving way way better and Im so happy. Thanks a lot Ryan ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

I love watching your videos in half speed to help visualize the proper movements but also because it makes you sound like a happy drunk. Thanks for the insightful and at times amusing content!

Probably the most comprehensive tutorial on serve I have seen. Just while practicing the recommended steps, I could already feel the difference. The idea behind snapping your hand when it is hurt was in particular very illustrative and immediately helped me understand pronation. Looking forward to taking this to the courts!

whoa ! played squash 25 years . that serve is not a big deal. this tennnis serve is!! this is excelent cannot wait to try it .

I've been lifelong struggling with my serve. Thank's a lot! Never seen such a comprehensive Master Class before.

This video was more informative than the 5 years I’ve been being coached Thx

There’s an endless supply of videos and video lessons but I’m a believer that you need to kill the clutter - Find something to focus on and adopt the principals. This is an utterly amazing step by step set of serving principals that deserves focus and repetitive practice. I’m going to kill the clutter and make this my serving Bible. Can’t thank you enough for the depth and willingness to truly teach!

33:46 is the time to start from if you already watch the video once.

Not only very instructive, also a very nice teaching approach. I wish I had someone like you when I was a child!

Best ever technical video on how to serve.

You are a living legend I cannot thank you enough!!!!

I am 71 and your lessons have me playing like I have never done before. Today I played singles with my son for 5 hours. I am so excited to get pro help for the first time in my life. I never knew tennis was played this way. I tell my friends to watch the party hat guy. They haven't done that but they wonder why I am playing so well.

Phenomenal. I’ve spent 1 year of testing how to serve and basically I came to all this features as described in video. Oh God... watching this video 1 year back I could save lot of time:)))

That's what it means to be a top tennis coach! Thank you for this precious tennis lesson with simple and argumentative information! Bravo!

Just Genius . Everybody at every level should see this tutorial. You are a Master of Tennis.

Best serve class I've ever seen. 👏👏 I wish my tennis coachs have donne this to me. Great, great job! Congrats from Brazil.

Thank you very much for the great tutorial! I would love to see a slow motion of you doing a serve. So all the steps you mention are clearly visible and maybe easier to copy. Thanks again! Great video to learn how to serve correctly. Greeting from a tiny village in the Netherlands.

WOW! For me it's confirmed, you're by far the best tennis teacher. Thank you.

So well explained, no literature can explain the gratitude I have for you. I struggled so badly and your technique made it so simple. You made my tennis serve.

This is the best instructional video on serving on the internet! Take notes!

Everytime I watch this video I correct one more mistake in the court. This is such a valuable source. Thank you. I’m really grateful for this resource.

Thanks to your technique, my serve has massively improved! I was so frustrated because of my poor serve, but now things have completely changed! A massive thank you from the south of Italy! U r the best!

Your step-by-step puts all the biomechanics together. The first time I have seen the timing on the vertical hop make perfect sense to me! Thanks for this!

Several months ago I saved this video to my personal tennis library and it has really helped improve my serve. It's so informative and I come back to it from time to time. Thank you Ryan; I've got this!

Phenomenal instructions! At first, I thought the Video might be too long then I did not want it to end. Learn so much from you , thanks Ryan!!!!

Im a total newbie but I can appreciate your brilliance in explaining concepts!! Im lookin forward to practicing the serve.

One of THE best serve video I've seen on YT. I especially appreciate the thorough explanation of each check points, what to avoid and why to avoid.

Simply fantastic. The best serve deconstruction I have ever seen. So many good intuitions, can't wait to take this to the court.

Applying all these tips improved my game drastically, I'm much more confident with my serve and I've won 3 matches in a row. Thanks a lot.

Great video, this will allow me to show my son the proper steps and mechanics of a serve, as his school lacks any direction. Thank you

Your analysis of the whip action is amazing. The timing of the upward leg push and the stopping of the body rotation to accelerate the racket, is the missing magic for many people. Analysis of the biomechanical chain shows that the timing of the body, upper arm, forearm, and racket needs to be well timed like a whip. You are an amazing teacher and you get all of the mechanic spot on.

Fantastic video, so great to get the full serve chopped down to part steps and check points that even I can get and practice by my own. Also a great walk through of each step in detail, super helpful. Wearing that party hat by my myself in my home office does feel a bit silly but boy it surely helps! Big thanks!

The BEST video on Tennis Serving Tutorial I have ever seen. After watching and following the guides my serves improve a lot. It takes me quite a while and with immerse effort to rectify my old mistakes (with only slow progress). Had I come across this video much much earlier I needed not to struggle with my serves. Thank you Mr. 2MinutesTennis.

Thank you very much for training. I have applied the sequence, and my serve has improved very much.

That's was truly excellent. I have never seen anyone from live coaching to KZfaq break down the serve as thoroughly and subtly as you. Great work! Thank you!

One of the best explanation of hitting a consistent serve on KZfaq. Keep up the great work Bryan!!! This video had benefitted a lot for me.

Your serving videos, especially this one totally transformed my serve to be much more consistent with tons more power. Best video I have ever seen on transitioning from the waiters serve and I have seen many videos. Just started finally playing tennis again first year in retirement after many years in hiatus. Used that darn waiter serve for way too long. 😊 Your a super talented teacher. Thank you! Love all your videos. Keep up the great teaching Ryan.

You are the best tennis teacher. Clear and simple. I will watch all your tutorials

Great stuff, thank you! The birthday hat portion really helped my serve over the last week of trying it. I'll be trying to incorporate all the rest as well. Best serve explanation on KZfaq.

Thank you so much! You have summarized perfectly all that is to know about a top level serve. I'm grateful to having found you! My best wishes! You are a great man and teacher.

Fantastic presentation Ryan! Thorough, informative, and very helpful

One of the best Tennis Coaching Channels here on KZfaq! Love the way how you explain it!

I have watched probably 20 videos on serve, by far yours is the best, I understood many things that I was not aware of! Can’t wait to go practice!

Excellent instructions tremondously helped me by keeping the racquet head closed facing down. Thanks to you no more or a lot less waiter serves. Should set up an account so we can donate to the channel.

Honestly. The best technical video on serve Ive ever seen on youtube (and there are a lot of them out there). Thank you so much for you effort and please keep it on! Greetings from Germany.

The pointer about the 3 things (legs pushing off, knocking birthday hat off, tossing arm dropping) happening at the same time is something I haven't heard other coaches mention. What a great tip!

Amazing tuition. So comprehensive. Thank you so much Ryan

I've never seen a better breakdown and description of a serve

I am starting as a middle school tennis coach (and high school helper) in the spring and just found your channel. I see many many hours this winter spent watching your videos. Trying to hone my own game, as well as learning techniques to use to teach the kids. The serve seems like a logical place to start.

Wow. Best serve video I have seen. Answers so many questions! I can't wait to try tomorrow!

36 minutes video.. It's worth every second of it!

The best tennis serve video I have ever seen! Excellent!

Hey Ryan. I watched this tutorial before my training in 4-person group yesterdays evening but had a time to watch just first 4 steps, but believe me, as u said even those 4 steps REALLY helped me to improved my serve yesterday. Thank you Sir and greetings from Poland.

Hi Ryan, its Jordi from Barcelona , Spain. I am 56, #18 of Sapin in my category +55. This is the best explanation I have ever seen in my life on how to hit a perfect server. 49 years playing tennis by the way. THANKS

I'm so grateful for your instructions, thanks a lot

Ryan, this is a phenomenal breakdown of how to serve like a pro. Extremely helpful and very happy with the results! Sincere thanks for this video!!!

Brilliant. The best video on serving that I've ever seen!! I'll be working this video for weeks and weeks to try and get it all. Thanks so much

this is fantastic... thank you so much for breaking the whole process down! I've been able to figure out parts of this by feel, but having the checkpoints is tremendously helpful as is the explanation of the pronation and importance of the left arm position! Cheers!

Hi coach... regards from the Philippines! I'm just reaching out to say that this video did wonders for my serve!!! I've been struggling for years and watched numerous videos, but your video finally hit the mark for me because you clearly broke down the motion with your stepped approach. Keep it up! Thanks so much!

you are the best service coach, thank you.

Just came across this beautiful and short video on serve. You have excellently explaned into details rather than long talk. I watched few videos on serve.. but couldn't help me to serve better. Am in love with tennis. I needed to do it right this time with your teachings. You did it right with the birthday hat. 😊

I'm 24 and I always have been a football player. Starting in tennis right now and your videos are making me improve a lot! Thank you a lot Ryan!!

The most excellent step by step to the serve ever.

Really such a great video. Thanks for all of the time you put into this and all the detail. It has certainly helped a lot of us newbies to the sport.

This is the best video I've seen describing the serve motion step by step. amazing!!!!!!

I was having trouble with my serve. I save this excellent Video. The instructor was excellent in show and explaining the Serve process. I love this video. Now I have to practice what I saw here. Thank you.

This is awesome. The most comprehensive guide for serve. I have been looking for something like this and this video here is excellent, Thanks so much.

such an incredibly useful video. i've referred back to this several times since it was posted. loooove a long form 2MinuteTennis where you get into a bunch of picky gritty detail.

This is by far the best serving guide I have ever seen

Simply the best coach!!!

I just turned 80 and my serve has become easier to return than I would like. I refuse to attribute this to my 'slowing down' but obviously, my serving racket speed has slowed down. I have taken notes about the fine points of the serve as you explained it and plan to take apart my current serving technique and build it back again BETTER. With improvements in accuracy of hitting my targets, increasing racket speed, and applying sufficient spin, I hope to squeeze out enough refinement to get to the point where my serve will become a weapon instead of a weakness. Your analysis should help considerably. Thanks.

Thank you. This is the best serve technique explanation I've seen.

I've seen a million videos on youtube on fixing my serve (esp, consistency),this video addresses all of my concerns, Appreciate it,TY!

Best serve tutorial I've seen on KZfaq!!!

Never understand so clear why I can't serve. I was so excited and practicing till 3am at home. Also help clear my doubt on why I need to turn the racket when hitting the ball. Very helpful visual on birthday hat! I will share my kid this video. Thank you so much!

What an amazing person to take the time to fully explain how to properly serve. I went out to party city and gotten a pack of birthday hat. Yes, people in the courts next to mine think I'm crazy... but I don't care. I've been practicing for the past several days and I feel more difference than years of traditional amateur serve practice. I record film to watch myself and also review this film every-time. The more I watch this video the more the details stick. All I can say is thank you from the Big Apple (NYC)!

Great video serve has always baffled me but now I know the steps to follow. Thanks Ryan

Ryan's my favorite tutor. Thank you.

Amazingly thorough, amazingly insightful, thank you for this video!!! Breaking everything down into the 7 checkpoints with such detail, anyone can improve their serve if they just patiently follow the instructions. Tbh, it's an overwhelming amount of info, and will take a long time to master. But with dedicated practice and incremental improvements over time, and by not rushing the process, any one can apply the steps outlined and see significant improvement in their serve. My mind was blown away at the many insights explained in this video. From the fastest motion in the arm being the wringing of an old style mercury thermometer, to the stoppage of your arm motion after/during uncoiling to just before/after the contact point leading to a tremendous release of stored energy/momentum etc. Everything makes sense total sense! For someone like me who never learned the proper technique for serving, just working on 1 or 2 checkpoints at a time rather than trying to cram all 7 together during practice session makes the task a lot more manageable. And obviously starting with the basics and mastering checkpoint 1, the proper setup and checkpoint 2, the palm down position, then birthday hat etc. before moving on to the rest of the steps is the logical and practical way to work on one's serve. Thanks again!

I like that you showed where you get power from , good job.

A great Serve lesson, I have seen many tennis Coaches at KZfaq, but only you are the one who teaches the most details and explanations easily to understand , you make my tennis level up. thank you very much,

Thank you, coach! Really, super helpful! I put into practice your tips today, and I immediately noticed improvement. It needs lots more practice though. Greetings from Chile!

Clear and detailed instruction. It changed my serve with effective result. Thank you very much for the teaching!

Excellent video …love the imaging ie “toss in the shape of a rainbow” and the birthday hat routine. You can jump to the end, but you will miss out on so many good insights and tips.

Awesome! The best tutorial I have seen!

Thank you very much for these detailed instructions, it improved my stance in 1st attempt. 1. Great explanation of continental grip. Before this I had never understood it clearly. Just with proper hold serve swing improved. 2. Check point 3 keeping racquet strings down when going back made all the difference needed for proper swing movement. Thank you once again.

Hi Ryan. Thank you for this! Best explanation of the serve technique I have seen. I used this (and a few of your other vids) to try and sort out my serve over the last week. Much more consistent serve, faster and also no shoulder pain anymore! Birthday hat and checkpoint 2 really crystallise the correct movement. I have posted some before/after vids on my channel if you did want to see. Long way to go, but even I can see its much much better. Thanks again! Ash

I love this. Thank you for detail analyse serve video.

Thanks - this is a great and very clear visual instruction - will be trying all of it!

I only see 6 mins of the video and I actually upgreade an insane quantity my serve, thanksss!

Will be trying this out tomorrow. I struggled recently and this staging works. Many thanks from Scotland

Te felicito!!!! Lo mas completo y didáctico que vi hasta ahora!!!! Simplemente una explicación completa y genial!!!!!

I apply your technique for serve and its amazing the way My serves improved thank you very much best serve video ever 👍🏻🙏

Awesome video, cannot thank you enough! Such a great detailed breakdown.

Man, as soon as you described the palm down position as the position you would have for throwing (e.g. a baseball) I got it and saw what I was doing wrong. And I've been playing for a long time. Thank you.

Thank you very much. This is by far the best tutorial video i have seen !

Best video I have seen on how to serve.

Good lesson. Transformed my serve once I adjusted for the new hitting arm position. Saw a Federer slowmo. He actually straightens the hitting arm before knocking the hat off. Tried it and it works amazingly well!

New to tennis and this helped me solve a ton of issues I've developed, much appreciated!