for the flat, the slice, and the kick serve. In fact, the serves are the fastest

strokes in tennis easily reaching over a hundred miles an hour and if we compare

that to a ground stroke it is very difficult to reach that same speed.

The acceleration on the serve should be gradual. Now there are some servers who

have more of an abrupt faster rhythm and that works for some players but the

majority of the best servers of all time have a gradual acceleration that goes

from slow to fast. And what I mean by gradual acceleration is that it simply

takes a while for the serve to accelerate. So most players will

bounce the ball inside the court and then they will initiate some kind of a

rocking motion, this is different from player to player, and then we will start

syncing the toss arm with the hitting arm. We're going to toss the ball and we're

also going to take the racket back. And now as the racket goes up into the

trophy position we will also get our body in the proper position so we

can execute all the multitude of power sources and get the maximum acceleration

once we initiate the racket drop.

Once the racket drop is initiated the amount of time it takes to get from the

racket drop into the contact is so short and the acceleration is so fast that

this is impossible to see with the naked eye.

And certain technical elements that are occurring in this area from the racket

drop into the contact, such as the pronation into the contact are being

performed as such a speed that it's impossible for us to be conscious of

these actions.

And the timespan that continuing pronation occurs in shortly after

contact is even shorter which makes it absolutely humanly impossible to

this action consciously.

So what this means for you as a recreational player that you must learn the

fundamentals of the serve and you will be able to accelerate the serve to

tremendous speeds. You will then be able to accelerate the serve so fast that this

area from the racket drop into the contact and shortly after contact is

gonna be over so fast in a blink of the eye you will not even know what happened.

And if your serve was accelerated correctly all the technical elements

inside this area are going to be there. So, for example, the pronation into the

contact will be there without you being conscious of it and the same goes for

continuing pronation. If you try to practice continuing pronation

mechanically at a conscious level you will either have to hit your serve

extremely slow and you don't want to do that you want to accelerate your serve

as fast as possible, or if you do accelerate your serve and then try to

mechanically and consciously make continued pronation happen you will

end up with something what I call fake pronation. And fake pronation happens to

anyone who tries to consciously continue to pronate. So even if I hit a serve if

I consciously try to continue to pronate I will do it too late and this is

impossible the time correctly. You saw the time span in which from the contact

to the continuing pronation you can't even see it it's happening so fast so if

you try to do this consciously mechanically you will never be able to

get the timing right and you will do it way too late after contact and it brings

absolutely nothing to your serve. So instead of working on pronation into the

contact and continuing pronation work on the real fundamentals of the serve and

there are many trust me. And then once you develop all these fundamentals you

eventually will be able to accelerate the serve properly and you will have

pronation into the contact and continuing pronation without ever being

conscious of it.