Will Hamilton: The fifth part of your serve is getting to something called the trophy pose, which is completion of your preparation. And the previous three videos in this section focused on the toss, the back swing, and the knee bend. The three elements of the preparation you need to get the trophy pose, which is the body position on in right here.
Now if we rewind from this position back to the stance let’s watch out from the stance I get to the trophy pose and again its going to be a combination of those three elements we talked about the toss, the back swing, and knee bend. And if we play at forward again I’m doing all those three things and then I end up in the trophy pose right here. And to be clear my tossing arm is extended to straight up that was the completion of the toss.
My racquet and my hitting arm were N and L that was the completion of the back swing, and my knees are fully bend with the weight equally distributed on the balls of each foot and that was the completion of the knee bend and again if you do all those three things at the same time if you complete them at the same time you end up in the trophy pose this position and it’s called the trophy pose because the body position on in right now looks a very similar to what tennis tournament trophy might look like.
Now how exactly do you time each element of the preparation the toss, the back swing, and the knee bend. So, that they complete at the same time and you get to the trophy pose or behind me I’m in my stance and when my weight racquet for on my front foot my arms haven’t moved yet, but as I begin the racquet my weight back now my arms separate and I dropped down together.
Once the weight all in my back foot and from this position, I begin to rock back forward and bend my knees my arms arise together. So, that my toss, my back swing, and my knee bend all complete at the same time and I get to the trophy pose. Now if we rewind it back to the stance I want to make an important point about how your arms move during your preparation.
Coaches called the why the arms moved down together, up together because the arms move down together as a piece and then up together as a piece and this should help you time your preparation as you trying get to the trophy pose.
Let’s watch it one more time weight racquets forward arms hadn’t moved as the weight comes back the arms drop down together and then as a weight comes back forward the arms rise together. So, it’s important to keep in mind that the arms move down together, up together during step of this serve and once you get to the trophy pose again this is the completion of the preparation and from this position you’re ready to swing forward hit the tennis ball.
The final piece of timing your preparation and getting to the trophy pose is that you want to be hitting the trophy pose at the same incident the toss is that its highest point. So, let see exactly how I do that, as I windup and I toss the tennis ball the toss reaches its highest point, when I’m in the trophy pose. So, the toss is at the top of the frame here, its highest point and I’m in the trophy pose.
Let’s watch that one more time for clarity shack, I toss the ball and complete the preparation when the toss reaches its highest point. And this is important because this timing helps you with the rhythm of your service motion. If you toss the ball really high for example you could end up sitting in your trophy pose for a little while and that’s occurred orchard that makes rhythm of you serve a little bit messed up. So, if you train like this that’s really going to help with your rhythm during your service motion and later on the swing forward and trying to hit the ball.
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