The Power Serve Part 2

Extension, pronation, internal rotation, and wrist flexion—the four actions that take the racket to the ball. In the first article we spent quite a bit time setting up the serve, so in part e we're going to continue with the forward motion. So what's the sequence that you'd expect to see? I said in the first article that you want a coordinated, fluent effort. That you want the hips to rotate. Then you want the shoulders to rotate. That you want a leg drive. And you want the arm to externally rotate driving the racket down. Next you want the arm to move up towards the ball. So let’s so how that happens. There are four actions that are important to understand very, very well.   Extending the elbow provides a high impact position in the power serve. Firstly there is elbow extension, followed by forearm pronation. Then there is internal rotation and finally wrist flexion. And these are the four actions that primarily work to drive the racquet forward and to position the racquet for impact. Extension In the power serve this mostly is used to provide a high impact position. In other serve types it may play a...