How To Hit A Perfect Kick Serve In Tennis - 3 Steps

hey guys Simon here from Cup tennis training and in this video I'm gonna help you hit the perfect kicks off in three simple steps so step number one is having the correct grip and this is the Continental grip or even slightly further round to almost an Eastern backhand grip so if you're a single handed backhand player you'll know that the eastern backhand grip is where the index knuckle is on that top bevel so you wouldn't good as far as the extreme eastern backhand grip but you want to be somewhere between the eastern backhand grip and the Continental grip and this will allow for the proper mechanics to happen above your head which will allow you to hit the kicks off if you don't have this grip if I had a forehand grip for instance and I tried to hit a kick serve and that same motion that I need the brushing motion and going from the bottom left side of the ball up to the top right side of the ball if I'm a right-handed player I couldn't do that with a forehand grip so if I was trying to do that with a forehand grip my strings would be really open up to the sky when I make contact and the ball would just fly off so I need that Continental grip to allow for the super nation to happen prior to contact but also to allow the pronation happened after contact which is crucial on getting this good kicks of so step number one having the correct grip having that Continental grip this will allow for everything else to happen on that kicks up step number two is now the ball toss so for a normal serve I might throw the ball slightly in front of my head and slightly inside the court so that I can actually go through the ball and hit a flatter serve I'm going for a first serve or a slice of if I want to open up the court especially on the deuce side but on the second serve on the kick serve we want to throw the ball more to your left if you're a right-handed player so on the baseline we want to throw the ball more to our left and slightly behind our head which will allow us to hit the ball from eight o'clock if the ball was o'clock so imagine this ball is now o'clock so you've got the top 12 o'clock all the way to six o'clock for a kick serve if you're looking at the ball from this angle you're trying to hit the ball from the bottom left-hand side of the ball which is around seven or eight o'clock up to around one or two o'clock now the higher you want the ball to bounce you're gonna start a little bit lower so you might start at seven o'clock and go up to one o'clock but you won't have that same twist on the ball the same kick on the ball as if you go from eight to two o'clock on the ball but it's either seven to one if you want a higher bounce and higher net clearance or eight to two o'clock if you want slightly lower but you want a more extreme kick on the bounce so now I'm focused on the bottles being more to my left so that I can hit the ball from eight to two o'clock let's have a look and I'm not going full power and just trying to get that brushing motion from eight to two o'clock on the ball as you can see it's nice and high after the bounce even though this court isn't very much like a proper clay court or a hard core there with a chi bounds a lot higher you and step number three to having the perfect kick is how you actually hit the ball so we've spoken about the ball toss doing more to your left but what about the actual mechanics of the body so for a kick serve you want to be sideways on when you finish the serve when the balls left your strings you still want to be in that sideways on position if I open up to the court I'm going to hit either a flat serve or a slice of I need my shoulders to be sideways on to the net so that I can do that real shoulder over shoulder motion so the shoulder over shoulder is almost like a seesaw action if you've ever taken your kids to the play pot and you're on the seesaw where one child is on one side and the other child is on the other side and one goes up one goes down one goes up one goes down that's the same motion you want to have especially on the kick serve but on also of you want to feel that the right shoulder is dropping when you get to around the trophy position and then when you're making contact this left shoulder is now coming down and the right shoulder is going up and that's the motion we want to have on the kick serve the more we can do that motion on the kicks of the better we can hit that kicks off if we don't have that shoulder over shoulder lack the real power and the real spin so it's that right shoulder dropping in the trophy position here and then you're having the racquet drop you're having the racket traveling up to contact that's when the left shoulder starts to come down and the right shoulder starts to go up to the ball what I like to tell my students is almost imagine you're hitting the ball with your right shoulder and this will really force you to go from low with the right shoulder to high and then staying sideways on is also the other big crucial factor that will help you hit that great kicks up so now it's all about step number three which is me staying sideways on to the net for as long as I can and working on that shoulder over shoulder action so I'm not opening up I'm not going from here forwards with my body I'm staying sideways on and allowing my racket to go from the left side of my body to the right side of my body so on a normal serve you're hitting more fruit a ball so in my racquet path would be from here this way going towards my desired target on the kick serve it's traveling more in line with the baseline so from left from this way up contact and then that way and the more I can do that motion from left to right quickly the more aggressive the kick will be after the bounce so let's have a look and the faster I can do that shoulder over shoulder the more power is gonna give me the more pop I'm gonna get off that bounce now a very simple trick that you can use to help yourself stay sideways on longer and actually get more for shorter bounce in the service box more for an acute angle in that box is by doing something that Federer likes to do and that's change the position of his feet Federer obviously uses the platform stance so his feet don't come together as in the pin point so he keeps his feet apart similar with a Novak Djokovic and also players like Pete Sampras and what he does when he's in that platform stands he might change the position of the back foot or the front foot depending on the surface hitting so Federer starts off like this on the front foot as he comes here this back foot can move so he can be moving this back foot at will depending on the survey's going to go he's gonna go more for a piece of he might end up moving it more in line so that he can really open up prior to contact if he's going for more for kicks of this back foot might end up going further back or another trick that he does yet she starts on the front foot he comes back and then his front foot lifts off the ground and he can change position with that front foot as well so he changes the position of the front foot which then changes the position of the upper body so if I wanted more flat serve down the tea I might end up with my feet like this from here in line then I can go down the tea quite comfortably if I want more for kicks of I can then do the same set up but as I'm in this position here this back for now moves slightly more to the left side of the court which allows me to stay a lot more sideways on and turn my back to the net much more so I'm changing the foot position here for the kicks are so that change of the foot position is going to allow me to hit the shorter angle or if I want to go down the tee I can hit a little bit more in line with the feet so there you have it guys three steps to hitting the perfect kicks of so step number one once again it's a grip step number two the ball toss and step number three hitting the ball from 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock while staying sideways on with your shoulders and having that shoulder over shoulder motion while also playing around with the feet position and the foot position especially this back foot playing around with how far you can bring it round especially if you use a platform stance now if you use a pinpoint stance you can still play around with a foot position so if I'm using a pinpoint and I'm in this position here for a normal serve for a kick serve I might try and turn my feet slightly further round so that I end up with my back turn more to the court which will allow me to hit that real extreme kick and be sideways on when I hit it so thanks for watching the video guys I hope you've enjoyed it if you have give it a thumbs up leave a comment down below as well which part of your game do you struggle with the most if you haven't done so already subscribe to the channel and see you soon guys all the best you you [Applause] you

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Length: 10min 23sec (623 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 29 2017