Blindfolded Serves Vs Harriet Dart (Pro Tennis Player): Can I Win?

[Music] hey everyone so this video is very different to my normal videos as I actually wasn't planning on putting this video together but when I was going through the footage from a fun shoot that I did with aex and world number 85 Harriet Dart I couldn't let the footage go to waste as I challenged Harriet and high performance coach Jack Carpenter to a blindfolded serve contest and so although this video is far from any other educational video that I normally post I'm still going to try to give you some value and some tips we each put a blindfold on and our aim was to hit five CES over the net and into the court which didn't go so well as you can imagine but some of us did slightly better than others Harriet was up first all right here's Harriet blindfolded see how she go oh I maybe leave the leave the bounce I know like a surf okay right oh my God this is like so weird okay oh no fantastic motion thank you wait there wait there fantastic motion give you feedback on the next no what you very close yeah really good very close ah so I need to wait tiny tiny fraction okay the head bingo I love it here you go here you go hate this it's hard isn't it it's so hard it's like perception your coach is going to get those glasses back on you oh noen I'm trying to see where I am you know yeah okay very consistent har that's devastating watch Jack's got tactic it really goes to show no matter how consistent your toss and your serve motion is your eyes and your vision play a huge part in your serve just imagine if you watch that ball ever so slightly more closely you could hit your serve that little bit cleaner each time and in turn gain more power and more accuracy next up it was Jack's turn and his aim was to try to have a lower ball toss and a slightly more compact swing as he felt this would give him more success in connecting with the ball if you can get this I'll Be So Gone seconds each oh connect literally like that looks like it's gone through the roet like you so close that one was the head one how are you connecting to it are you lying to us that you can see very told you can't see a thing two more at least he's at least he's connecting with it I can even connects with it your every was like the same yeah at least I have a good [Laughter] task did you see he was about to turn that way I know it's odd oh that's not bad it's much better than mine yeah so he's abbreviating a bit H cuz I'm going fully back finally it was my turn now as I mentioned I definitely had an advantage going last I learned from Harriet's mistakes from doing her full serve motion and I got a few tips from Jack as well I've got one I've got one okay you got one is that the court yep you're on the dece side right what this guy is lying to us he can see I promise I can't did he land It Go in where we need to get wide it's not bad really clean was it yeah I'm what I'm thinking I'm going very low with my you are you are smart very smart yeah he's going low and fastos yeah you're giving it no time you you're using the rib [Music] [Laughter] well you're hitting like proper over there you want to turn around a bit more H oh that's the that's the that's the that's so that's the fence you're on De side you've been serving right box but you're serving into the fence pointing fence okay this just point that way okay it's good though he's good I was useless the first one was the best like once you're there you know the ball you so good was it were they Landing anywhere like fence all that way first two were good if you can take anything from the way that Jack and I toss the ball slightly lower you can see that it's much easier to time so if timing is an issue on your serve then try considering bringing that Ball Toss slightly lower than you normally do as long as it's high enough for you to fully extend up to the ball at contact it's high enough but by limiting the toss height that ball has less distance to drop meaning that you can get up to it when it's at its most Still Point at the peak anyway after Harriet watched Jack and I she was determined to connect with one so she put the blindfold back on and managed to do this okay that was good you you unfortunate there come on come on you got this go what is get your get your racket already like in here loaded up yeah there and then just up very short and then hit yes that was one thing that I didn't mention to anyone until after the Blindfolded serve challenge was I actually used to coach two players that competed nationally in visually impaired and blind tennis and so my work when coaching those definitely gave me a bit of an advantage in this challenge let me know in the comments if you've ever tried let me know in the comments if you've ever tried a blindfolded serve and whether you have or not let me know which out of the three players you think you're most like anyway as you saw Harriet was great fun and if you want to find out any more about her tennis journey I actually interviewed her last year and I'll put the video at the end of this one thanks as always for watching I look forward to seeing you in the next one take care