Frankie Dell: Hi, I am Frankie Dell; I am a professional Tennis Instructor. You are watching ‘How to Serve’. Next, I am going to demonstrate the Trophy pose. Okay, we’ve already learned how to bring both hands down together and up together, your racquets and your arm are shaped like an L. Your other arm has gone up to toss the ball. This is about the time you want to start bending your knees, okay.
So, knees are bent, weight is evenly distributed. You’re not back on this foot, you are not back on this foot, you are here. And your racquet arm -- the racquet drops to this position so it’s at a 90-degree angle and now you are in the Trophy pose.
It's called the Trophy pose because most tennis trophies you’ve ever seen shows a guy on top and he is in this position, right here. You’ve already tossed the ball, your knees are bent, your weight is evenly distributed, you’re not back on this foot, you’re not up on this foot, you are here and you are about to go into your swing.
Now, I want to break it down a little simpler, so let’s go over to the net. If you want to eliminate the down together, up together and just start in the Trophy pose. This will give you a little bit of experience actually making contact with the ball but eventually you’re going to have drop the racquet into the backscratch position, which we’re going to talk about in this next segment.
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