Your Strokes: Vin Miller: Serve

A live arm and great racket drop, but what about the contact point?

This month is Your Strokes, we take a look at the serve of Vin Miller.
I think you’ll agree from looking at the animations that Vin is an athlete! He’s
looks scary strong and he’s pretty explosive. I know from his emails and posts in
the Forum that he is a student of the game with a real passion for tennis and
improving his level. Over the last couple of months I’ve enjoyed discussing
some of the finer points of serving technique with him, mainly the racket path,
wrist movement, pronation, and leg action.

The funny thing is, when I convinced him to send in this serve video
and I actually got to take a look, all that discussion seemed completely irrelevant.
The irony is that in all our discussions he never mentioned what seemed critical
to me when I saw the video.

Imagery takes us from verbal to visual and speculation to reality.

If you’ve read many of my posts in the Forum, you’ve probably come across a response something like: “Send in the video, now.” It may seem like a cop out, but really I’m…