Serve — Technical Reference

The full mechanical, perceptual, and tactical model behind the serve and the return: why the legs have to drive before the arm, the eight-stage diagnostic model for finding what's actually broken, how elite returners read a serve before it's struck, and how to attack the return itself.

Pages

  • Arming on the Serve
  • The Eight-Stage Serve Model
  • Return of Serve
  • Return of Serve Under Pressure
  • Second Serve Aggression
  • Serve Backswing Types
  • The Serve Cartwheel
  • Serve Reading
  • The Serve Launch: CoM Vertical Displacement