How to Hit a Power Serve in Tennis

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Lincoln Ward, I'm a USPTA Certified Tennis Pro here in Austin, Texas with Lone Star Tennis Company. Today we're going to talk about your power serve. Generally the power serve is your first serve. A lot of players like to use a flat serve for this. In order to pack on the power, a lot of people want to use a lot of elbow grease to get the job done. These muscles up here are a lot smaller and a lot weaker than the muscles down here in your trunk. If you use your leg and your trunk to hit your serve, you're going to have a lot stronger of a serve than you would if you just used your arms. Just imagine, who would win in an arm wrestling contest between these muscles up here and the muscles in your leg and back? Your legs would win, hands down. No pun intended. So, when you're serving, rotate your body through your serve. Shoulders should look back, when you go through your shot, bend your knees. Reach, lift into the serve with your legs, rotate your torque. Torque your body so you have a clean rotation into your shot. They've found that when you use your arm to swing, you create linear velocity. When you use your torque body, you create angular velocity. You get a lot more power with your angular velocity, rotating into your serve than you would by just throwing your arm. So, remember, when you're serving, don't just use your arm no elbow grease. You want to pack the mustard on that hot dog by rotating through with your body, and your trunk, and your legs. That's how to hit a power serve. My name's Lincoln Ward, thanks a lot."