Sz Ki thank your for your input 👍🏼 and yes, that’s happening to a lot of players.

@@NadimNaser thank you for the great tips and reminders ! Fantastic as always.

James Reid VanVoris thanks James 👍🏼

Great point, the "shoulder-over-shoulder" motion as you put it is something I struggle with. It might help if I extend my tossing arm more and bend back just a tad. I'm guessing Nadim is exaggerating (and he says as much at the end) a lack of counter-clockwise rotation (for a right-hander) so that we focus on swinging upwards?

Yes the tossing arm must be fully extended (close to vertical). At this point the tossing arm is QUICKLY tucked into your chest as you jump into the court. This quick motion not only adds power to the serve but also brings the your front shoulder DOWN and your back shoulder UP (along with the racket elbow..)..this is the shoulder-over-shoulder rotation we are looking for.

Neslie T super! Good luck 👍🏼

Jo Sch so happy to read your “ah ha” moment. Let me know how it works for you when you try it out. Yes, golf has a big influence on this tip :)

Nadim, just returned from the tennis court. Yes, it works, but....... it‘s so hard to break the old habits. My mind knows what to do, but my body is doing other things😉. The most important thing is to know, there is a solution, the rest is practice, practice. Therefore, everything is okay, Rome wasn‘t build in one day, thanks again, keep up the real good work here.

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Yes, exactly. Gregg did that for the groundstrokes and when we work the clinics together we always use this method to help clean up our students’ strokes who have “too much” action and not enough calmness in their strokes, simplifying and solidifying a more effortless and consistent stroke. Best wishes Jean

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Mark Egan exactly :) thanks Mark

Whip it, baby. Good tip

Dr. Bagelmaker thanks for checking in. If you find yourself not being able to i Clyde this while jumping, then jumping may be something you want to leave out for a while. Only because the legs will still drive from the ground up but leaving the ground and executing this correctly requires more syncing and proper mechanics. Feel free to share a video of your serve and I will be able to give you more insight.

You're not really jumping but transferring your weight. Your upward momentum and weight transfer will naturally get your feet to leave the ground.

Howard Spector thanks for your comment. Rotation in itself is not a negative aspect of power generation. For the serve however, if your non dominant side is too active rotating or turning away and downward too early, you actually lose power because the swing needs to go up and out. By having the non dominant arm go down and around at contact, that makes it significantly hard to accelerate with the hitting arm into the correct swing path, namely “up and out”. Think of it this way: turn more at the very beginning or your service motion, to then be ready to uncoil into the correct path without over-rotating. Hope this helps. Try it with throwing a ball in Hail Mary fashion; you gain much more consistent trajectory with this method. Take care

Gordo Gordo thanks for your input. Check out another video I posted here talking about the difference of flat vs slice. You’ll see the difference between the serves are minimal and both require proper posting in order to a) not lose power and b) stay disguised. The video is called “Flat serve vs. Slice serve”

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Henry Scuoteguazza thanks Henry. Don’t worry about the speed drop for now. It will increase again once you swing in this direction and while in this posture with more confidence. It’s all about the position of the shoulder during contact so you swing up and out. When you see that your faults are consistently less than before, try adding effortless speed (during practice at first) without rotating early. Best wishes to you

@@NadimNaser Thanks! The timing of your tip was perfect because yesterday my doubles partner noted that my head and left side were collapsing as part of the serve. I think focusing on posting the non dominant side will help prevent that.

Henry Scuoteguazza it absolutely will :) try working on it not just on court and during point/match play but also with shadow swings and in other non-competitive environments to make sure that the hänge is actually being made. Easier that way at first. Best of luck

David Burleigh thanks for your comment. Can you accelerate freely without losing posture?

@@NadimNaser It is snapping very well. What you call posting, I am calling hoisting. What I think you call posture, I am calling alignment ( hitting shoulder high over opposite foot.) Thank you for your excellent videos.