7 exercises that will improve your tennis serve

Hi, in today's video I will show you the pronation of a serve. So in the last video I showed you the correct grip, the continental grip. So if you haven't watched that one I will link it up in the top at the end of the video. Okay let's get started. So if you're using the continental grip you have to pronate to be able to hit the ball. If you're using pancake grip the strings will be the correct way. So if you're holding a continental grip, the hammer grip, what will happen there is you go to the edge of the ball then you have to pronate to be able to hit the ball. So in today's video I will show you seven drills that you can use. The first one, so what is pronation? The easiest way to explain this is that you take your hand like this, put it back here so the thumb points down. Then you go up and then you turn and give a high five and then turn again so the thumb points down. I'm showing this side. Thumb goes down, edge of the hand up, turn and make high five and then continue turning. The thumb goes down and what will happen as well is my shoulder will internally rotate. So that's the pronation. I will show it with a racket as well. There's six other drills. The first one is you take a racket in the hammer grip and just hit on the edge of the ball like this. Let it bounce twice. Notice when I do it it's I hit and I continue like this. If you're gripping too hard this will happen and you don't want that. You want the head to continue smooth. So the third exercise you take a racket like this and then you will pronate just before you hit. You go with your edge just to the ball and then you pronate. Use your elbow not your wrist. Elbow has to rotate. The next exercise I like to do with my students is I take my racket like this. I go back, pronate. So like this. Start here, back, pronate. That's a fun exercise to do running up for a lob and you want to hit like this. You can do the same between the legs. It's the same technique. So you have to have a service grip and go between your legs. Next exercise I like to stand on baseline and my service grip. It's a good idea to grip it up a little bit. You put the racket here 90 degrees and go up and tap and tap. So what's happening here is you start here, contact and turn. When I finish my elbow will be higher than my shoulder. The butt cap will point up. My shoulder will have internally rotated. Okay so the next exercise I like to do is sit down like this. Take my racket here, go up, pronate and down. As you can see I rotated my shoulder. My elbow is high and I finish to the side with my knuckles going this way. It's a great way to practice on the pronation. So if your racket is going this way and you have a bend in your wrist you have done it wrong. So you have to be here, elbow high, internal rotate, strings going this way and the knuckles going that way. In this last drill I will use the whole serve. I want to use my legs. So I will stand here. I can start like this, contact, pronate and follow through. Up, contact, pronate, follow through. High elbow, butt cap pointing towards the ceiling, internally rotating my shoulder. So when I finish I want to end up on the side like this. You can do the same thing with the whole motion. So don't use your feet now because that will make it so much harder. You just want to practice on the pronation. So go up, make contact, pronate, internally rotate your shoulder and down. Up with the edge, high five, continue pronation, elbow up and follow through. So that was seven tips and drills you can do to improve your pronation in a serve. I hope you liked this video and I'll see you next time.