Monday, January 14, 2008

Forehand Tomahawk Serve

Probably the serve I have used the longest. I have been using a backspin and a side spin variation of this serve for a long time and developed a super spinny top spin a few years ago. I don't really understand this serve very well and am hesitant to use it except to get a couple easy points. I can outspin most people with the first serve and have a no spin variation with a weird motion.

I'm in the process of learning to do this serve from the middle of the table and trying to learn a heavy, high toss backspin variation. This will take some time, especially if I'm maintaining my forehand pendulum and learning about and improving my reverse pendulum.

I need to work on my wrist snap and keeping the blade in the same plane to be able to execute a heavy backspin serve.

I should also bring back the heavy, long topspin variation, that just curves in bounds to the backhand side. I think on the short topspin, I could try and snap my wrist more and skim the ball more to get more spin.

I should concentrate on this serve or my reverse pendulum for the next couple months, and possibly ignore the other serve.

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