Hi Karue, I think your tennis lessons are the most helpful! somehow it all makes sense to me! It’s way more detailed! And it goes straight to the point! I wish you good luck in your professional endeavors, and I am following you every step of the way! I live in Sydney Australia, I have a court in my complex! It will be my absolute honor to have you here playing a match or two if you ever come down under one day!

Ah yes warmup exercises! Would love to see a video dedicated to them!

Wow I literally did this during serve practice a few weeks ago, told myself to focus putting more weight into my bag leg during the wind up and it was like a eureka moment for my serve!

@thugzclub4070

11 ай бұрын

I toss the ball in a bit more …so I fall into the ball a bit more…it makes a difference from a power perspective

@mightbefire

3 ай бұрын

@@thugzclub4070 yeah, that's tricky, you almost have to feel like you're losing your balance going forward. I'm stuck a bit on this one.

@johnbenevoli2066

Ай бұрын

Hi.. You should never feel like you're losing your balance serving...in fact you should feel profoundly connected when driving from the legs. If you look at pro level serves, the ball release arm extends beyond the vertical, that is back towards the head specifically to ensure that the back leg is still engaged to drive the ball upwards (the priority) and outwards toward the target. By all means toss forwards as much as you can, but not at the expense of disengaging the back leg.

Best serve video I’ve seen in years

amazing conten Karue !!!thank you!

Great job!

what a smooth serve motion to watch... impressive

Man this is gold. Solid gold Sunday.

Thanks. Very helpful!

Finding the tip about pushing towards the ball and target (T, wide) with the trail leg especially helpful. Thanks Karue!

Thanks. That practice routine and those tips look really useful. It’s exactly what I need to work on.

Sweet! Just started watching but I laready know its gonna be awesome. Thanks

Thanks a lot for these instructions kurue!! I've had a lot of pain during my serves because i was forcing the arm and this helped mt a lot to serve faster and with no pain 🎉 keep going with your channel, it is fantastic! Valeuuu! 🇧🇷

Karue has some of the best tennis instruction on KZread. Simple and to the point.

Love your channel and words of wisdom! I Pushed off my back leg when hitting the like button :)

Liked and subscribed, thank you for the great tutorials.

Excellent content Karue! I think many of us club players don't toss far enough into the court, at least in my case. That alone develops a bad habit of not transferring energy into the court.

Your videos are so so good! Honestly the best tennis videos on KZread. I’ve learned more from you than from my actual coach 😂 ! Thank you for the clear explanations and drills 🙏🏾🙏🏾🎾

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Happy to hear we are helping you improve

Awsome greatness always taeching simple

Amazing vid

Thanks!

Got the point . That’s what I need !

Awesome video! I think this video set me on the right track for how to improve my serve. Immediate positive results! At some point, I would also love to know your take on the relevance of the elbow position on the serve. Is it something to work on, or best to focus on other elements? Thanks again for a great channel.

Actually realising I (having a platform stance) push upwards more from my front leg... Thanks!

I watched this video when it first released and didn’t find much change/improvement in my serve. Today it finally clicked. Of course had I properly tried the drills it would have done so sooner. Turns out I was trying to push off/jump more with my back leg rather than just focusing on the load. If the load isn’t there, it can’t be unloaded. So I mentally overcompensated and told myself to stay on the back leg the entire time (of course this isn’t what is really happening) but man did the mph on my serve increase instantly. Very helpful “controversial” take. Now if I can just get that right arm more active in my backhand lol.

Having done a similar progression to develop my serve and incorporate more back leg, I was shocked how much I was crowded by my toss. If you try these drills Karue demonstrates, take note (even better film yourself) to see if crowding occurs. I went from my general flat serve toss position landing a half foot inside the baseline to tossing out to almost a good two feet inside once the legs became active. It took some practicing how to arc the ball out further so I could maximize point of contact.

@phivortex954

11 ай бұрын

Good point. I think the toss is the last point of call for me as well. Karue appears to toss the ball with his arm more parallel to the court, but the ball is tossed after his body begins moving forward, so it ends up into the court. The legs bend after the ball is tossed.

Tell you a good one. Hit the serves against the back fence no bounce about a dozen times after you do your short warmup. This gives your arm more power and elasticity then serve into box. It's like the baseball players do long toss so the can throw more powerful. Try it.

reporting back after trying the jumping off the back leg thing... 40-0 games. started hitting serves way above my level. felt amazing. hope i can hang on to this feeling.

Great lesson. I still have problems with pushing with my back leg and i have seen studies whereby the strength actually comes from the front leg. But i understand the logic of exploding from the back to front- just don't believe my body is listening to what my mind is saying.

Yeah been trying to figure this out for ages. Turns out they are on both legs at trophy to balance but they kick hard off the back foot, the front almost inactive in the drive. Great great video.

Nice video, great tips ! You know Karue, you are the Coach/player, on the entire internet, that I see playing in a more relaxed way. I have applied this to my strokes and with very good results. A question: on the serve we move the racket more towards the sky, like 45°, because naturally it takes care of hitting the ball towards the court, right ? Or am i wrong ? Thank you so much

This is really valuable. Is it safe to say if I'm not consistently kicking my right leg back, I'm just not consistently engaging my right leg, maybe pushing mostly from my left leg? Is there anything else it could be?

Hi coach. Great video. Question , I was practicing my serve couple days ago and my shoulder hurts since then. What am I doing wrong? Yes I have been playing for just couple yrs so I still learning. Thx in advance for your answer

great drills. I would differ on why the back leg kicks back. It kicks back because, for the kinetic chain to work well, the back hip has to STOP and let he arm accelerate past it--like with a whip you stop the shoulder and let the forearm, then the hand overtake. The back leg kicks back to stop the body from rotating any further

Isn’t the kick back more in relation to not rotating the lower half as much as the top half (ie creating some separation and torque) which means your right leg kicks back behind rather than being parallel to baseline

Any tips on the weight transfer? I feel like i get anxious as rush things a bit, transfering onto my front foot too early. Ill give these tips a go for sure, but i have been making sure my weight is back for the start of my ball toss which helps a bit. I aslo changed my ball release to holding a cup style rather than palm up, trying to see if i can shorten the ball toss height a bit and still stretch upward.

just curious if u have private lessons since I believe I’m in your area

I've been serving pinpoint serve from 80's since I started playing. I never have/had decent leg drive. Want to change platform, cause it seems easy more to load back leg. I can do shadow swing at platform stance but when I crap a ball and toss it's very hard to change my muscle memory. Back leg keep coming next to front leg automatic.

I've never thought about driving back leg toward intended target, will have to give this a try! Karue, do you have a tip for dropping the tossing arm faster/sooner? I notice I do not begin dropping it until the racket tip is pointed to 9 o'clock ("trophy position around 12 o'clock"). I am guessing I am so focused on the racket I end up delaying the dropping of tossing hand. But even if I focus only on lowering the tossing arm, it does not work.

My serve is my worst part of my game. It drives me crazy

@info781

11 ай бұрын

serving is difficult

@K4R3N

11 ай бұрын

Opposite for me. I love serving and usually hold serve. It's the easiest thing to fix because you can just go out there and hit a basket on your own. I used to hit 400 kick serves a week 2 summers ago. Just put in the time. Toss consistency is key

@OfficerDonut0

11 ай бұрын

I’m more of a shorter player, and I also play kids much older than me so they are much taller so it’s easy for they to serve, but my first serve is one of my most proud of parts of my game, since I’m lefty for righty’s this would be serving on the ad side. For my deuce side I can consistently hit a fast flat serve down the t almost always on the t. Also I used to do tons of serving too. It’s more important to make sure your getting all the stuff you want to make sure your doing right other then just hitting a ton of them. 8 months ago I would have clinics 2 times a week and serve 5 times a week. With a basket of 50 balls I would do 100 - 130 serves a day. Il tell you it got my serve really good. But I regret doing it because I hurt my arm doing it. My arms better now but I think if you make sure you are practicing the right way and the right amount you can get really good at serving. If anyone’s wondering I’m 11 but I play against 14s

@alecmorariu6291

11 ай бұрын

Easiest shot to improve just gotta go out and do it

@formulaicsounds

11 ай бұрын

Drives..heh 😁

what medball weight is good for tennis?

this can be useful for platform stance, I don't think it is doable for pin point stance. What do you think?

do you use the new vcore 95 or 98? i know that you love the 2018 95

Hey Karue, I’ve been watching you for 1-2 years now and I’ve seen all your lessons on KZread about backhands. I feel like all of my game is a pretty high level, forehands, serve, volleys, everything I am at the same level as a lot of the college players in my area. But my backhand is so bad if they find it once during the rally it is always short or a free point for them. Can you please take a look at it?

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

I offer online lessons. Email me at @ lessonswithkarue@gmail.com

Hello My girlfriend want to play tennis. Shes never played before. So my question is. What would be a good beginners racquet for here? I looked at Wilson Blade 100 UL, Wilson Ultra 100 UL and Head Speed MP L. Are they any good as a beginner racquet or should se use a bigger headsize? Do you have any suggestion of some other racquets? Kind regards

There are players, most notably Becker, who don’t kick back, and actually land on the back leg. I used to serve like that as a junior, but I changed it and I feel more power and consistency, despite my leg kick being quite small. Also, it helps with balance, especially if you have the tendency to tilt to the left, as I do

Oh man this made me realize that I'm landing on my wrong leg when I serve - landing on my right leg with my left leg behind me! Been playing for a while and I never noticed that - neither did my coaches.

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

Boris Becker used to do that also. It is not necessarily wrong tbh. It makes sense for some people. If your serve works that way don’t mess with it. You can still push well with the right foot regardless of how you land

@madmitten5

11 ай бұрын

@@MyTennisHQ Thanks Karue, that's good to know! I can smack my first serve pretty hard but it's always been inconsistent so I might try the other way just to see how it feels - seems like maybe it would keep my upper body a little quieter - but I won't force it. Really appreciate your teaching approach by the way.

Your warm up serves are better than my best serves 😅😢

Where are you practicing, is there the sea that we could see?

Any chances of a rematch with Chris Eubanks? 😁

Brian from the Backstreet Boys practicing tennis serves

Is that university high in Irvine

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Why do people never talk about pointing the chest to the contact point? It provides the greatest arm leverage with respect to the torso, similar to when you're slamming a ball to the ground with your racquet, except in a horizontal vs. a vertical direction.

can I buy your serve ? haha thanks!

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

yeah, buy it with time. The longer you work on it, the most likely you can have a similar serve

@gianfrancolaurino2736

11 ай бұрын

@@MyTennisHQ yessss the only way is time and practice. I train every day, can i send you some video? im from argentina!

The kick-back is automatic, your body's way to keep balance and not fall on your face.

Casually name drops Naomi

Dang, was hoping for a link to the resistance bands you were using. Would've bought it using that.

1,70m no hope here 😂

I'm to fat to do this lol

@joaolucaspereiraventura8811

11 ай бұрын

lol! But tbh if you are heavy using your body effectively will actually speed up your serve dramatically, by transferring all that weight into the shot

This "improvement"will undoubtedly cause more doubles 😢 so buyer beware

Sorry, but this cannot be any further from what is really happening with the leg drive. The opposite is happening. You always load the front leg. It is a passive leg drive. The evidence to that is the back foot lifts off the ground first. I do not expect anybody here to "believe" me, but that does not change the facts.

@dmf30

11 ай бұрын

I just wrote something similar. I have have heard what you are saying from several people.

@TenisAmador

11 ай бұрын

Most of the power comes from the front leg, yes. However the back leg will give you *more* power, and most importantly, will lift you off the ground, accelerating contact making it possible to generate more power, slice or spin to the serve. Source: I have a "dead" back leg. It basically comes together, tip of the right foot dragging with the floor. The contact point becomes lower, and that most definitely harms my serve. Yes, I can still serve at +100mph. But correcting the back leg drive would make the serve a little bit more powerful and, most importantly, more reliable.

@tamaslegner

11 ай бұрын

@@TenisAmador it is just not true. If you push with your back leg it is a jump. It is a passive leg drive because you are unloading it and not jumping or pushing. No player kicks/bend with the back leg on purpose. It is just happening because of the sequence.

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight. Would love to see a breakdown of this on video from you showing your serve. I choose to believe the MULTIPLE ATP AND WTA coaches I've been around who I've seen doing these drills with their pros. But you must be above those world-class coaches. Show us

@MyTennisHQ

11 ай бұрын

We spent hours and hours correcting this on Naomi's serve back in the day. Served basically on one leg. When the back leg was more engaged she hit cannons. No reason arguing, let them be

This video absolutely helped me today 🥹

@thugzclub4070

11 ай бұрын

How ? I need to video my self…I adjusted my toss ball to be inside the baseline a bit more so that I can put more weight on it ….it made a huge different

Hi Karue, I think your tennis lessons are the most helpful! somehow it all makes sense to me! It’s way more detailed! And it goes straight to the point! I wish you good luck in your professional endeavors, and I am following you every step of the way! I live in Sydney Australia, I have a court in my complex! It will be my absolute honor to have you here playing a match or two if you ever come down under one day!

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