Receiving Tomahawk serve

Receiving

Manas Pendse
Manas Pendse Asked 7 years ago

How to receive a forehand Tomahawk serve easily?? As whenever i try my ball stops in the net....


Alois Rosario
Member Badge Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago

Hi Manas,

If the ball is going into the net try to tilt your bat back a little more.  Perhaps you are not quite reading the amount of backspin on the ball with this serve.  Sometimes different serves are harder for us to read mainly because we haven't seen the serve as often.


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