Tennis Technique Improvement

Watching the Tennis Fundamentals video from Feel Tennis Instruction, Tomasz has reminded me about focusing my tennis technique on the following basic fundamentals:

Biomechanical Fundamentals

1. Stability (Priority #1)
2. Hip Rotation
3. Shoulder Rotation
4. Swing Style

Here are my favorite Serve Tips from Peter Freeman of Crunch Time Coaching:

1. Secret Power Source: 
2. Only when the tossed ball has reached its peak, begin pushing off with your legs and start your racquet drop (too often, racquet drop starts too soon)

Fix the Waiter Tray Serve:

1. Drill: Hold the racquet in a Continental grip
2. Drill: Hit the ball with your racquet's edge with a half-serve motion
3. Drill: Hit the ball with your racquet's edge with a full-serve motion
4. Drill: Thumb-in/Thumb-out: hit the ball with your thumb up and thumb down
5. Drill: Full serve

Serve Drills from Lisa Dodson of TheTotalServe.com

Forehand Improvement from Peter Freeman from his 30-Day Forehand Challange

1. Relax the grip. It should be loose until ball contact
2. When preloading the unit turn, the back must be visible
3. Step into the ball
4. Drag the back foot
5. Open-stance is too narrow (legs wider than the shoulders)

Hitting balls on the rise with Jeff Salzenstein of Tennis Evolution

1. Shorten the forehand stroke, starting lower with a shorter backswing
2. Shorten the finish