How to Correct The Waiter's Serve In Tennis

      This is awesome! I rarely see anyone teaching the serve the way we teach, but this video lesson does. I have been searching for corrective videos to help you and for personal professional development. This teaching pro talks about hitting the ball with the edge of the racket, using the correct grip, and turning the left edge or in our terms "Karate Punch." 

I love how the teaching pro talks about how the serve is a learned movement, not something that comes naturally. You have to train your forearm to turn or do the "Karate Punch."

I hope this continues to help you grow. I am so excited I found this video!!!!!

Serve steps (WE DO)

 1) Heel of hand goes on number one

 2)Bounce ball on edge as if pounding a nail into a board. Choke up on racket using serve grip on Number one.

 3) Touch net with racket, toes pointing straight ahead. 

 4) Reach racket up high on edge, toss ball above head and touch with side of racket. 

These four basic steps will help you learn to use the correct serve grip.

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Perceived Competence and Progression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYrFkHXtgDk

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to "serve" you. It has been quite a ride so far this year. I am amazed at the progress every single student who has taken a lesson from us has made in a short period of time. Have a wonderful time with family. I am most grateful for this  opportunity.

Develop Your Skills

Tennis is not an easy game to learn. In fact, it is very hard. Tennis is a learned game and not an activity you can just pick up naturally like baseball, running, or football. Tennis requires hours of practice to make your muscles do what you want them to do. That is why in our lessons we focus on mastery of a particular skill verses just going out and playing to play. When you can master a specific skill you are more prepared to play and will have a greater understanding of what you are doing.

Private Lesson: North Phoenix Location

Private Lesson: Student serving for first time from 60 foot court. Ball landed in correct service box.


I DO (Teacher Model) TW model for student how to line feet up in order to serve cross court into the correct service box.

WE DO (Guided Practice) TW assist student in progressive steps in serve fundamentals with a graduated length method to serving from the baseline. 
SW perform each fundamental step using the graduated length method.

You Do (Independent Practice) SWBAT serve using correct grip, swing path, and follow through. (USTA standard)
Student has correct grip, left arm tucked, racket continuing to turn as it follows path to left thigh, back foot is turned up

Encanto Park Tennis Summer 2014

You Just are not Your Best.

What do you do when you feel off? We all have those days where you just are not your best. You just cannot get into the flow of your activity. The same thing happens to tennis players. For whatever reason, the ball does not feel right when they make contact, or they constantly hit the ball late. Whatever the symptom, something is off. 

Often times you will hear the coach give the student a pep talk to psych him into the match or practice session. Pep talks may sometimes work, but what really helps most is to slow down. Whether in a practice or play session, slow down and focus on one thing. If you are in a lesson, a good coach will modify the lesson. An example would maybe create a mini-lesson on an area of need or do something simple the student has already mastered. For instance, if they are mastering the backhand or the volley the coach could temporarily put the lesson focus on hold and do a mini-lesson on the backhand or volley.

When a student feels off on a particular day, it is important to be able to find modify the lesson in order for the student to have success. When you do the student will have a more memorable time and will have learned how to overcome the off days on the court and in daily life.

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Slow Motion of Roger Federer Serve

The serve is one of the hardest strokes in tennis to learn. One of the best ways to create a muscle memory is to watch what you are learning. In this video, you can see each of the progressions we teach in our clinics. Pay particular attention to his grip, rhythm, contact point, and follow through. See if what he is doing reminds you of what you are learning in your lesson. You will see you are learning to hit your serves like the top professional players in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EBU3wCFS0&list=PLYzockcM15HrsBW_DbE1mmAOzRvqeYqqM