High Toss Serve Impacts
Serving
D K Asked 7 years ago
Hello PingSkills Team,
Recently I trained hightoss serves and found out that although my serves are spinny, they are often high and spinny,or low and dead.
When I practised further,I found that I do not know
a)how far from the body should my bat contact the ball?
b)where the initial bounce should be (if it is the same for all types of serves)?
c)how to disguise my serves without actually hiding them?
c) is because many players keep telling me that they can predict what serve I am going to use before I perform the serve, which was proven correct in 70% of cases.
Thanks
DK
Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago
Hi DK,
It is important when you are doing the High Toss serve to make sure you are still getting a good contact on the ball. Often players focus on the action and the toss and forget about the most important part which is how you contact the ball.
Hit the ball close to your body. The principles of where you bounce the ball and disguise doesn't change from when you are doing a low toss serve.
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D K Posted 7 years ago
Then....how can so many players predict my serves so accurately,even before I myself know what I will use?
You might be doing something predictable with your backswing or preparation.
Rohan Keogh Posted 7 years ago
Hi DK. If others can predict your serve but you can't, it probably means you have created an unconscious habit, i.e. a unique movement, position or behavior for each type of serve that has become so automatic that you are unaware you do it.
Try filming yourself doing 10 each of your different serves and then see if you can spot what everyone else can, and hence also predict your own serve. It's then a matter of incorporating that unique 'tell' from one serve into another to create the deception you are after. It takes time, but does work. Good luck.