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JinMeng Lai Asked 13 years ago
What is the movement and technical different in a forehand topspin pendulum serve and a backhand topspin serve? Could you explain to me which exact movement causes the topspin or backspin? Many thanks.
Alois Rosario Answered 13 years ago
Hi JinMeng,
This can be a little tricky to understand.
For both the Pendulum serve and the Backhand serve,the bat is moving in a pendulum like motion. So it starts by going down in the swing gets to the bottom and then starts to go up again. If you hit the ball in the later part of the swing when it is going up and hit the back of the ball you will get topspin.
If you hit the ball when the swing is going down, it will get backspin as the bat is contacting the ball downwards.
In our DVD Serving Secrets Revealed we show you examples of these serves and show in great detail how to do them.
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Jing Meng then commented:
Thank you. With regards to my last question, am I right to say it is just a matter of time of contacting the ball? Does the bat angle change when executing both serves? Many thanks.
Yes it is a matter of timing. The bat angle doesn't need to change just the timing of hitting the ball. Hope this helps.
JinMeng Lai Posted 13 years ago