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Intriguing that. Me lm a Lefthander. To hit a full.on Top Spin Serve with the ball a fair way behind your head automatically changes your Service Action & in these merits throws up real problems for the Receiver judging plain of the Ball. Best of all this Ball toss stops any nature in haphazardly looking at or around the Sun. Mark

Return with a drop and the opportunity is lost for the player

I find that my eyes are used to the sun after playing at noon at 35'C last summer right under the sun. Yeh it'd blind me a bit but not to the point that I can't see the ball and serve. The hat only blocks very little of the sun when the sun is right above your head.

Nice tips !

This is the best description of the mechanics of pronation I have seen. As a new assistant high school coach I struggle to teach this and find a lot of resistance based on players’ lack of understanding why. I’m looking forward to trying this.

When I’m doing palm to palm, if I were to practice doing a kick serve or a slice serve, I’m having trouble visualizing what the choreograph should look like. Does the palm to palm only work for a topspin serve?

@15:32 my guy did a no look catch. damn

Definitely the best step by step tutorial on CZcams…and I’ve been through them all lol. I’m just starting out so this is great! I just have this video on while I’m on the court.

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My ball toss goes behind my head every damned time. I've tried a million cures. It goes away sometimes only to return next match. Very maddening.

This is a brilliant and complete exposition. The only additional point I can think of that would have been helpful is the relationship between the descent of the non dominant arm and the leg drive - do they happen together or does one initiate the other? But overall this was so helpful, thanks.

Excellent stuff🎾. Best greetings from Marbella

Awesome, thanks

All the good stuff, clean and clear!

After Swiatek and Djokovic maybe it’s time to focus western more. As everybody started teaching Djo’s technic allready?

Great video again. Clarifying some things from other videos. Now the hard part is executing all of this! Lol

Efficient, effective teaching, will incorporate this process. Thank you so much!

I snap my wrist and I'm the best tennis player on my block

Another "out-of-the-park" presentation. Just the facts - no sales or drama. Couldn't ask for more. Better yet: No need to look elsewhere. Warm greetings and best wishes from the east coast.

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This is good stuff

Must give thumbs up. Thanks for your advice!

Great video

tennis needs height division...

We were taught to hit the Continental grip by stepping into the ball and hitting the ball off the front foot. Your racket would be going out and up with an outside rub to get top spin. It worked with low and high balls and opened the court up big time. None of this hit the ball 2 feet in front of you which the average player will never be able to do. Teach a child and yes they will grow to do it as an adult.

Easy forehand winner for red👍

The bob ross of tennis

This video was extremely helpful and has helped me improve my serve with which I was struggling. Great insight into importance of the mechanics of the Ball toss! Thank-you!

Amazing analysis,,Thank you.

If your opponent has plenty of time in reaching your drop shot then you shouldn’t have attempted the drop shot. Still if opponent has time to reach the ball they usually hit it cross court. If opponent barely gets to it they often go down the line. It takes more time to hit it cross court.

Total nonsense. Or at least only half right. If I approach right down the line I will always slightly adjust my follow-in path to cover the passing shot angles. Following my shot in would be suicide - he'd have the whole crosscourt to play into.

It would help a great deal if you would explain all this with ball placement in mind. After all if we had all the power from the pronation but no idea where the ball would be going, we could not be confident in hitting it.

What if they lob you

Terrific Lesson. You are a fine teacher!

I agree 100% with the line to move in on. The question beyond that is, how far in do you go? Close to the net reduces the opponent's returns angles geometrically, but also opens up the lob, so how far to come in can be dictated by how much pressure the approach shot puts on the return of the opponent. It's a game of watching the position and balance of the opponent who is making the return shot and guessing on the possible shots coming back your way.

The great man so happy you can help

One advantage to having slight variation is variety in spin and direction. You don't know for sure, niether will your opponent. Obviously everything within reason.

Thanks John, your knowledge of tennis ,🎾 is scientifically balanced and proportioned to the human body. Scientific teck knowledge applied to the human structure,🙏

Taylor Fritz needs to have better physical!

Right from wrong can look similar it takes a real teck coach to distinguish the difference, thanks so much John for your intervention, teaching once again the different stances for correct posture ❤🎾

Loved to learn how to pick the ball up from the floor 😂

I am interested in Ruud’s serve because I struggle to keep a flowing movement without stopping. If I have a lower toss and synchronise a good knee bend and weight transfer etc I will not pause and hit a more powerful serve and with more spin if I hit up on the ball as I pronate. In the past when I have done this I felt the most confident in my serve. I have been focusing on getting away from the waiters tray position but am now working on the above with the racket on edge and pronating etc. thanks

Thank for the information

Lovely work John as usual, tossing the ball to the left keeps your body upright 👍thanks john for your remarkable teaching❤🎾

I like the whiteboard!

Good tip. I see that shot angle back all the time even on ATP rallies.

You gotta bait the DTL shot watch out him coming back really sharp cross but if he doesn't hit that aggressively then hes stuck out of court and you can just about own him.

Interesting analysis and mostly true but that’s not to say you can’t or even shouldn’t hit a dtl shot there. You just have to accept that A. You’re probably going to have to hit a harder shot with riskier placement and two you have to be prepared for cross court shot which is still going to put you at a disadvantage if it’s hit with any degree of quality. That’s why riskier dtl with greater power is so important here because you want to decrease the opponents capacity to redirect their ball, especially because a dtl from player blue in this scenario is almost certainly a point winner, while increasing the likelihood they give you a weaker shot to the cross court for you to cover. It’s a high confidence shot that should really only be tried by pros regularly and by amateurs who need to keep their opponent guessing.

Not to mention that hitting cross court is the far higher percentage shit because 1. Net is lower and 2. More court ie you can hit harder with far lesser risk of hitting it long

This guy really hates DTL shots. I wonder how many winners he suffered that way.