Hi! My name is Malia Bailey and we just went over the four basic serves of racquetball. Now we're going to go over some easy drills that you can incorporate in your practice.
Serving is so important in the game of racquetball, because that's where you're going to score. You're not going to score points, when you're receiving. You're going to score points in the service box. So you want to make sure your serves are accurate and consistent and unpredictable.
The first drill we're going to go over, is a drive serve drill. What I would like to do is I place the can to where, I think is an ideal spot to hit a drive serve. Sometimes you might have to change the angles dependent upon where you're standing in the court.
For example, if I am standing here in the service area, I might want to move this can maybe over just a little bit. What we're aiming for, one, is so the ball will bounce close or around the can, so that the trajectory of the ball is going towards the far corner which makes it very difficult for your opponent to return the serve. Good.
The second drill we're going to show you is the hard Z-serve. We're going to use this cone as the target. So when you hit a Z-serve, you'll hit the front wall first, the side wall at an angle, so the ball is coming here. What you wanted to do is hit deep in the court. When it hits the side wall here after it bounces, it's going to come straight into your opponent, close to the back wall, so they don't get a good hit on it.
The third and fourth drill, actually for the high lob and the half lob, I am going to have someone sit in the corner. We're going to try to, on the second bounce, have the ball land in their laps. Because ideally for the lob serves, you don't want the ball to come off the back wall. You want the ball to land in this area here, so your receiver can't attack it. Then on the second bounce, land in the lap of the person sitting back there or you can put a box back there, that way you know the ball is not coming off the back wall. That's nice!
Coming up next we are going to show you how to return the serves.
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