Monday, August 21, 2017

Practicing Tennis on the Ball Machine

I have been practicing forehand, backhand, and volley and have served at the Sunnyvale Tennis Center for a long time. I decided to record my technique with my trusty GoPro4 Hero Silver camera mounted on a tripod for further review.


In this short GoPro4 video, I am practicing my forehand and slice backhand.



In this short GoPro4 video, I am practicing my forehand and backhand volleys.


In this next short GoPro4 video, I am practicing my kick serve.



In this next short GoPro4 video, I am practicing my flat serve.


The service is broken into 8 phases. I have made comments for the errors I have observed in red.
  1. Grip: Continental
  2. Initial Stance: Platform
  3. First Move (turn away from the target)
  4. Ball Toss (using  fingertips)
  5. Trophy Pose
    • The racket should fall behind my right shoulder, but it's not doing so
  6. Serve Stroke
    • During the stroke, I should approach the ball with the edge of my tennis racket - not with an open tennis racket. This is causing a "push" stroke. The racket should open at the very last moment - during pronation. I realize that I'm not constantly gripping my racket in the correct Continental (I need to check my grip more often)
  7. Contact
    • I was releasing the pinkie finger on my tennis hand before contact. I need to correct this error!
  8. Completion

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