Faking your serve

Hi Alois

how do i fake my pendulum serve? For example, how do i do a backspin serve
 while acting as if I'm doing a side spin serve or do a reverse pendulum acting as if I'm doing a pendulum serve?

Ruwantha

Hi Ruwantha,

This is an advanced technique.  We cover it in our Serving Secrets course.  We also are going to add more lessons on the subject to our Premium lessons.

The main principle is to keep your serve swing for the different serves as similar as possible.  In the Pendulum swing one way is to contact the ball during different parts of the swing.  If you hit the ball when your swing is still going down it will have backspin.  If you hit it later in the swing when the bat is going up then it will have topspin.  The closer you can get the contact to the bottom on the swing, the harder it is for your opponent to tell what type of spin is on the ball.