My new serve motion after watching the BNP Paribas Open!

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Comment by Tim Prapong on March 25, 2012 at 7:27pm: http://youtu.be/QSbsRgR2JP4

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 25, 2012 at 11:57am: Man, there was a young twenty year old buck at Griffith's Park practicing his hard cartwheel serve, and I thought, that is too excessive and would kill my lower back. lol

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 25, 2012 at 11:54am: I could start putting in a touch of a cartwheel and start doing it that way. I recorded a new set of videos last night. They'll be up shortly here.

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 25, 2012 at 11:51am: Ah, I figured it out this morning. It all stems from going to Vic Braden's as a kid. He told me to pronate with a sidearm delivery. Almost all of my partners have said my flat serves will skid hard and go away from them sometimes, like a touch reverse slice. So that is why I end up cocking to my left abs. I have a more sidearm thing going, so I don't cartwheel and hit with a lower toss, which is what Vic Braden advocated.

So I am sometimes hitting the lower center of the ball, and then as my hand pronates outwards, the string go to the left and slightly downwards on the ball, getting the reverse slice effect. My fiction writing professor calls it the stealth bomb. lol

I did experiment with the football throw technique, hard cartwheel with toss arm totally vertical. I threw my left hip into the court and my forearm would go practically 360 degrees behind my back. My flat balls would bounce high then and I hit some real rockets. I started to see a real kicker. But my left hip became very sore and lower back was testy. So I just went back to the sidearm thing.

Good analogy, Coach V, even though I don't know what a C post pattern is. Is that a sidearm football throw at short range?

Comment by CoachV - William Vazquez on March 24, 2012 at 11:20am: Hey Tim how come there is 4 balls at the Net??? are you hitting down too much?

Open Stance think more football throwing not tennis technique. Even closed stance is still football thow..and you are throwing a Pass like a C post pattern with good coverage which means you pass has to be solid and perfect or interception.

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 24, 2012 at 2:07am: So I tried it with the Aussie fh grip, and it was better flat with toss to the right. But once I did that, I said to myself, I might as well do the Ivanisevic or Becker serve and hit open stance. lol

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 23, 2012 at 10:51am: When I think of when I used the Becker motion, that was so great about that motion. I would jackknife evenly across my abs and have more power on the flat. The stance was open and the grip was face on to the net.

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 23, 2012 at 10:44am: Or I'd have to steepen my shoulder angle and do a hard cartwheel. I think I'd rather toss to the right and keep my shoulder angle less steep.

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 23, 2012 at 10:38am: I can't go straight up unless I tossed it directly overhead, and I'm too short to bring it back down. That's the problem, isn't it?

Comment by Tim Prapong on March 23, 2012 at 10:37am: Hmm, touching my toes. Ok, I will try that toss more to the right. I did record a batch with the toss more to the right, but maybe I will toss even more that way. And change the grip.

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