How to Fix the Racquet Drop Leak | Tennis Serve Technique

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The racquet drop leak is a common problem on the tennis serve across all levels. In today's video, I provide some solutions on how you can make this serve technique flaw a thing of the past.
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@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t confuse the racquet drop leak with the waiter serve 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJuPfZCWqrfOfJc.html

@Explainmerandom 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! So great! (I'm definitely doing this and I hadn't seen it anywhere until now, I was confused because it definitely wasn't the waiter serve, but I had no way of breaking it down to the idea of accelerating around the trophy position and never seeing the drop)

@nyamedevries783 3 жыл бұрын

Just like with the waiter serve video, you manage to give a solution that makes me think: Why did i not think of that earlier? It’s so satisfying to learn how to play tennis this way, it all instantly clicks. Great vid.

@LeihKauf 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!! I never could explain WHY the leak is not good for a serve, I just knew from a feeling side THAT it is not good... you present the WHY... Love your knowledge!!! Kisses from a happy man hahahahaha

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂🙏🙏

@leontxyee 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my! I filmed myself the other day and I have the exact problem you are describing. I thought I was dropping the racquet, but it was actually an isolated wrist movement.

@bashment7222 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!. I've been playing for 12 years and have not heard of this leak issue. Awesome tip.

@mauriziodenapoli873 3 жыл бұрын

As usual a video full of interesting tips!! Lag serve and wrist bend is something I’m going to work with immediately!

@rds4629 3 жыл бұрын

wonderful breakdown again. I appreciate your breakdown of these small things that are hard for amateurs to see.

@ATIL1304 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful lesson.Racquet drop is my nightmare.Have a bad muscle memory with the serve.Trying to fix it with your help.Thanks again.

@EdgeriPlaysTennis 3 жыл бұрын

I have been struggling with shallow drop on my serve for MONTHS. That isolated wrist movement you mentioned is precisely my problem. I open my wrist slightly before dropping my racquet which then creates an awkward angle for my drop hence making it shallow. Thank you so much for this video!! Can’t wait to get back on the court and try the flexed wrist prep to address the issue. Great content!!

@camiloysubanda 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos and explanations are the best. Thank you so much!!

@im_eternalife7035 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you! This absolutely anwers my question to you about a month ago regarding the racket drop. Nobody had even answered me if it is something happening naturaley because of the serve motion or if it is something i need to make it happen. Btw i adapted to the lag serve on my own because nothing else worked for me to not have the leak. Kyrgios serve is a perfect example of the lag serve.

@chinaski5 3 жыл бұрын

Great advice. This is exactly what I need to fix about my serve.

@jmasked5082 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the enlightening video! Krgios' serve is interesting.. he accelerates through the motion a lot earlier so he doesn't appear to ever hold on a trophy position.. his dominant arm moves in one high powered motion from low until ball contact. It's a really efficient and talented motion. We're rightly taught to break the serve up into manageable movements, because it is a difficult stroke.. but can't deny his movement has an efficient energy flow through from start to finish. The timing needed to serve like that is insane. Thought it is of interest as he has one of the strongest serves in the game for his height. An example of minimal energy 'leak' in the motion.

@inopig6237 3 жыл бұрын

Kyrgios is a great example of serving with a big lag. His racquet remains pointing down at the ground until a few moments after the toss is released. This allows him to do the whole takeback and swing in one fluid motion. Karlovic does the same, the racquet stays down until the ball is almost at its peak.

@fabfx 3 жыл бұрын

Best tips all the way😉👍🏼Many people do the pause, including myself. Gonna try your way, thks!!!

@tenniscoachcodyinphoenix 3 жыл бұрын

Always structural, but easy explanation! Thanks :D

@zaprescin3247 3 жыл бұрын

Great video pointing all my serve problems I went through as a self taught player

@massimodanzelmo4607 Ай бұрын

Thanks very much Nick. Didn't realize how many mistakes I was making I used to serve with back drop serve, I only accomplished shoulder Injury in years of tennis, thanks for giving us the correct posture, you are the coach Nick, very grateful for your pro tips thanks again 🙏🎾I l

@IntuitiveTennis Ай бұрын

My pleasure 🙏

@boscoffernandes 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic post Nick. Cheers

@kumarsabaratnam4787 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick for the detailed demo & explanation on this crucial racket drop & acceleration.

@EmperorsNewWardrobe 2 жыл бұрын

That was a really good video. Thank you.

@mikehardwicke23 3 жыл бұрын

Yet again - amazing biomechanical detail!

@Alexander-dt2eq 3 жыл бұрын

That is most helpful for all kind of players - from beginner to pro. and always remember: If you want to have a good serve, you must practise serve! :)

@Popieldavid2 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent analysis and recommendations. May I suggest that one additional reason for racket drop leak (clever labeling) is a toss that is too high, thereby requiring servers to pause or slow the racket drop when they reach the trophy position while they wait until the ball descends closer to the contact point.

@Tennisbull-match-statistics 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed, vielen Dank 🙏

@save215 3 жыл бұрын

Good tip! Will be perfect for my State championship

@absolutepowercorruptsabsol1864 2 жыл бұрын

Superb explanation.

@dmitryprivate6558 3 жыл бұрын

Nikola, very good lesson. Thank you. But what impresses (and bothers me at the same time) is how EFFORTLESS your serve mechanics. You can emulate other players' serves so well. And so effortlessly. I wish I knew if one (speaking about myself) could learn this.

@sassanxersi1027 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks to Mr. Nikola Aracic for yet another valuable lesson. No wonder many viewers admire quality of the lessons presented with great eloquence. I'm just another admirer of you Nikola.

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sassan

@Amigolla 3 жыл бұрын

Very instructional and nice videos. To make your videos even better I would add footage from the serves you are mentioning. For example a footage of a serve where Raonic does the mistake would be perfect

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

I used pro footage early on, now only original content. You can always look up the pro technique yourself.

@lordbyron3603 3 жыл бұрын

I had this problem of “pausing” and not accelerating at the right time . I think it came from seeing photographs of hundreds and hundreds of players (pros in particular) in trophy position. So whenever I did a serve, I’d pause in that trophy position because of the photos I’d seen. It really messed me up for many years. Thankfully, I’m starting to break this bad habit. My serve mechanics is one complete fluid motion from start to finish .... like yours!!

@jovancelebic6562 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic thank you coach, any chance I could send you a video of my serve and you can tell me what I’m doing wrong. Thank you coach your videos are eyes opening

@olafsrensen9578 2 жыл бұрын

Super great. So you recomment the Pairstilelag style, and I think his have a great serc.The Rawnits bend wriststyle is great.(works more like a wip) Bedst from Denmark

@FairwayJack Жыл бұрын

good stuff

@LL-kz1qe 10 ай бұрын

Very good analysis i already feel that i will have better serve tommorow

@IntuitiveTennis 10 ай бұрын

🙏

@mcdust72 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Nikola, I am watching all your serve videos - so helpful. You really go to the highest level of detail .r.t. biomechanics - like it. Now I have discovered an important difference between your opinion and the of the Florian Meyer team- which also does a great job in teaching serves. While you are advocating the trophy pose as the control point plus racket drop then happening automatically, the Meyer team argues against focusing on the trophy position and instead emphasizes the importance of the fluid motion and the racket going to the left (for tight handers) - not calling it a drop at all. I would say that both motions are not far away from each other - can you comment and help me to reconcile?

@tenniscoach 3 жыл бұрын

Hi nikola i follow your channel for awhile and i like your theoretical and practical approach to your coaching philopsophy.. i happy to say i also adopted and/or modified some of your teaching methods. WRT to racket drop leak u mentioned here i would look at it as firing the kinetic chain optimally. If u compare the forehand receiving preparation where we try to minimise the backswing and timing the wrist lag to be in time with the forward rotation of upper body.. u will notice the similarity of actions with the serve upward and forward rotation timing with the racket drop. In other words the racket drop happens after the upward and forward rotation fires.

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

True

@ReidVV 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, as usual. Your train of thought and presentation style is so coherent, fluid, and clear. What is your educational background? Does the country in which you were raised have an excellent education system? Did you go to college and if so, what did you study? Where do you get your speaking and presentation skills?

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Croatia/Germany studied international business at Murray State University No speaking/presentation training

@ReidVV 3 жыл бұрын

@@IntuitiveTennis you are an educated educator :-)

@LGLG-mc3dt 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful lesson! Thanks! I have a question, for regular forehand and backhand strokes, when to start accelerating the racket? From the backswing high position or from the lower drop position?

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

I explain it here in detail kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsh2eNChy7-xmHU.html

@yakzivz1104 3 жыл бұрын

Good gracious the serve really is the hardest thing to learn in tennis!!! There are just so many moving parts to learn and train.

@AirGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have any tips on how to be more relaxed with the arm on the serve? Basically, not using the arm but making it so the arm movement is a byproduct of what the body is doing. It seems so simple but it's harder for someone who hasn't done this from the beginning of when they started playing. Do you have a video or have tips on this?

@bethi9726 3 жыл бұрын

Wie immer eine klasse Einheit, ich kann jetzt viel ausprobieren, muss mich aber erstmal selbst auf Video aufnehmen lassen um fest zu stellen, was ich da alles mache. Trotzdem ist mir wieder mal ein prominentes Gegenbeispiel eingefallen: Steffi Graf machte in der Trophy-Phase eine ausgedehnte Pause und hatte für ihre Zeit einen Hammer-Aufschlag. Das geht also auch. Wahrscheinlich ist es gerade die enorme Vielfalt von Bewegungsmustern auf dem Platz, die Tennis so attraktiv macht. Es muss halt nur eine Lösung für die Spielaufgabe gefunden werden, also eine von vielen Möglichkeiten. Viele Grüße und vielen Dank für die tollen Inhalte. du machst das großartig!

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Danke Bethi, ja stimmt. Steffi hat Pause gemacht und trotzdem sehr gutes timing und Beschleunigung gehabt.

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9yqg7ZhlrfUZ40.html

@davidhale8034 Жыл бұрын

This is so me ... isolated wrist movement. 👍

@philipphortnagl2486 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for your serve videos, I think you are the best explaining it. I switched only this year from a long time pancake fh grip server to continental grip. I think I was trying to hard to get into this racket drop position so unnaturally that now I have pain in my ellbow when serving. I developed a kind of bursitis. Can this be from this wrong technique??

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Pain could be from many things, always consult with a doctor. It’s always beneficial to learn proper technique though.

@ryankiel4895 3 жыл бұрын

You had a fantastic explanation of the "lag serve". I will try focusing on this tonight during practice. Is this your normal serve? I see many professionals use this serve, as you mentioned.

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I serve with lag

@hark3394 3 жыл бұрын

Can you explain in more detail what you mean with an isolated wrist? Which movement of the wrist must be prohibited after the trophy position.

@MrXltennis 3 жыл бұрын

Hi.did you from Macedonia?because we teach same in Macedonia.Thanks its good!

@jackspradlin4183 3 жыл бұрын

would you say the last thing you control with your motion is your arms going into trophy, from there as you accelerate you are throwing the racket at the ball, just not letting go ha ha! I will try this again forgot what went wrong last time, I struggle with early racket drop, so I just serve from a trophy, lag should stop problem. My arm just wants to go as soon as ball goes up! Thanks for video!

@gihan84 Жыл бұрын

Do you move your body before moving your arm on the acceleration portion of your serve? I feel like that is the key to make sure your elbow is higher than the racket in the final part of the serve.

@djaziztube Ай бұрын

I recorded my serve for the first time and noticed this exact issue. Time to figure out which of the two causes I am facing and fix it for another 2-5 MPH

@tim_yrt 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do one about forehand lag leak? not sure if it's a term but my forehand definitely suffers from it. Thank you so much for the video!

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

I discuss that subject here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrN4dc94lq7IZJc.html

@tim_yrt 3 жыл бұрын

@@IntuitiveTennis Thank you so much!! will put the tips into practice!

@biancahayes5860 3 жыл бұрын

What is the difference between the open racket drop and the isolated movement of the wrist racket drop leak?

@davidtjahjadi5079 3 жыл бұрын

I believe the racquet drop serve is safer, its usually used on the second serve right?

@vinay7793 3 жыл бұрын

my elbow seems to hurt on the back & inner side whenever i go from bent into fully extended arm in the acceleration phase. Both my serving arm & ball toss arm go up at the same time. Do you think it might be an early racquet drop that is the problem? thanks

@atticus5852 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a coach at my local tennis club, there's a friend of mine who takes lessons from a couple of pros there. She has a bad tendency to get to the racquet drop or "back scratch" part of her serve and just sit there until she hits her serve. Pretty much she accelerates extremely quickly with her ball toss and to the racquet drop position and then completely stops her service motion. 0-100 she then goes for her serve. I believe her ball toss is too high and this is why she pauses, but a pause isnt necessarily bad it's just the position she pauses at. Any tips on how to fix this in a student?

@PRiKoL1ST1 5 ай бұрын

Hey Nick, what’s the difference between racket drop leak and shallow racket drop?

@IntuitiveTennis 5 ай бұрын

I’ll answer in video format

@anneneville6255 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about radwanska serve technique ?

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

It was quite good at later stages of her career

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@gerfracchia5749 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Nik, I noticed I have lack of strength (and prob flex too) in my shoulder so once I get to the trophy position I then tend to avoid the racket drop. Do you have any other advise or excercise for this? TY

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

Try this 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJuPfZCWqrfOfJc.html

@sooparticular 2 жыл бұрын

great video,,,do you hold your racquet with a true conti. grip? or are u a bit to the right like me on the next bevel?

@IntuitiveTennis 2 жыл бұрын

Continental

@sooparticular 2 жыл бұрын

@@IntuitiveTennis i have a strong serve but its the next bevel over to the right of conti. is this ok? or MUST it be true conti with pronanytion? Hvala ljepa

@IntuitiveTennis 2 жыл бұрын

@@sooparticular kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jat9ldB12tjafp8.html

@roberthaar Жыл бұрын

I’ve tried both techniques, with and without racket drop leak. I seem to have a deeper racket drop using the leak method. Non leak method racket drop is abbreviated but more explosive. Need help getting the best of both worlds.

@LaBambaCL 3 жыл бұрын

ok, i will try to lag serve again :)

@peejread2309 3 жыл бұрын

Does this apply to all types of serves? Or just the flat serve?

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

All serves

@golllaur 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nick! Does it mean that one should NEVER practice the serve from the racket drop position?

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

In the case of a chronic waiter serve yes

@IntuitiveTennis 3 жыл бұрын

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@JanChodura68 3 жыл бұрын

I think that for me drop leak is big problem because of I hit serve later in lower height with strange position of right shoulder. There are more problems which cause this and drop leak is one of them I think.

@bahadraslan238 3 жыл бұрын

Contınental ok 👍

@me.wienahto8162 3 жыл бұрын

I am not a native English speaker. I would love to have important information written in the video. Thankyou coach

@info781 3 жыл бұрын

My shoulder is not that flexible , he keeps his bicep below his shoulder until the hit. I have to serve more like wawrinka with both arms up.

@julianmirano5001 3 жыл бұрын

It seems like you are implying that the racquet drop is natural-done through acceleration. Does the racquet drop need to be taught or emphasized?

@donjohnson5873 2 жыл бұрын

I think the real problem is that the player with the racket drop leak doesn't understand swing theory, and the origins of spin and power

@andrewbaroch2141 3 жыл бұрын

I'm embarrassed about my leak i often have to run from the court.

@GuilIermoMartin 3 жыл бұрын

Wrong on Federer! 😅He can’t improve... his game is perfection!

@drbonesshow1 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is usefulness to the "scratch your back" notion (i.e., racquet drop leak as you choose) if you employ the neutral wrist versus the pronated wrist for your service motion. Yes, there are 6-actions to the wrist, which originate from the neutral wrist. The neutral wrist is the fastest way to move the arm across the body as in a throw or a serve. Unfortunately, 99.99% of tennis instructors don't realize this; having little knowledge of physics in connection to human biomechanics. That's what I do as The Nutty Professor of Sports: show-how physics know-how can improve sports performance.