Will Hamilton: The second step of the serve progressions is to start with your racquet back and your body sideways. So, what I've done, I'm shadowing the motion first. As I position myself sideways and the racquet is pointed straight back at the fence, but my racquet, my arm position is still the same, it's in the same position, it will be in at contact. What I'm going to do is rotate my body around to face the net. You can see when I do that, if we freeze it here, my racquet and arm position is the same it was in the previous video at contact so there is no change there. Now we rewind it to my racquet back position because I'm sideways, when I turn my body back towards the net, I need to get the heel of my back foot up because that allows me to turn my body correctly. And finally from contact, I'm going to follow through just like I did in the previous step, I am just going to extend out and then catch it with my other hand. Again, catching it is going to allow, it's going to ensure that I follow through correctly.
Once you master the shadowing from the racquet back position, then you can actually try and hit the tennis ball. So, what I'm going to do, when I trying to hit is just keep the motion as simple as possible, I'm going to turn into the ball, my racquet and my hitting arm position is going to stay exactly the same from the racquet back position to contact and then into the follow through where I catch it with my other hand one side follow through. Now from the back angle, you'll notice that when I turn my body back towards the net, my back heels coming up, and again that's going to let me rotate more effectively than if I left that foot on the ground. Then I follow through into the court, and you can see I'm not really hitting the tennis ball that hard, I'm just really, really trying to work the techniques so you want to do this very slowly, very deliberately and make sure that you're covering all the basics when you're first hitting the shot.
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