Your Strokes: John Daly: Serve Part 2

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How do the stances relate to movement to the net?

In the first half of our analysis of John’s serve (Click Here), we looked at the technical motion on his first serve. But when John sent in his video he specifically requested that we think about his motion as it applied in doubles.

So we’ll go into two interesting issues here that relate to that. The first is some further reflection on the relationship between stance and the movement to the net. The second is the "kick" serve, and how it relates not only to the second delivery, but also how it can relate to the first, especially in doubles.

Both of these issues are complex and probably warrant their own extended discussions, (and maybe that’ll happen in other articles in the future) but for now we can raise some questions and make some general points. So John, it might be a little more than you bargained for, but here we go.

When John sent in his video, there were examples of him using both a platform and an extreme pinpoint stance. In the first article I tried to steer him toward the…