Will Hamilton: The third step of the kick serve progressions is to take the mechanics in the previous two videos. And now, showing a little but harder.
The main difference between a kick serve and a flat serve is the direction you swing, how you pronate, and, how you follow through. And, once you've mastered those, it's just a matter of building up your swinging speed to an actual serve.
Now, it's important, like we're going to do in this video, to transition from a very slow swing to full speed. You don't want to go from slowly practicing the kick serve to try and hit it as hard as possible. Because, that's not going to work too well.
So, you need a bridge. That's what we are going to do in this video. And, the way you are going to do that, your -- first going to start.
Remember, in the previous video, we were holding the racquet at the throw. Now, you are going to choke down halfway down the handle. And, the next thing you are going to do is you are going to move back into No Man's Land.
So on in between the service line and the baseline. And, I'm going to do the exact same thing I did in the previous video. So going to cross the tennis ball, pronate, and follow through. But now, I'm going to be doing it a little bit harder. I'm going to be swinging a little bit harder, and still trying to generate a lot of spin. Not trying to hit the ball hard, that's a common misconception. You swing just as hard on a kick serve as you do on a flat serve, but instead of trying to pace on the ball, you are trying to put spin on the ball.
And so, right now, I am swinging a little bit harder than I did in the previous video but not quite as hard as I'm going to swing when I actually hit a kick serve, because I need to transition, build up to that full mode.
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