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Funny for you to mention Craig Bryant serve I went to a Westfield TTC camp earlier in the year and Craig Bryant was one of the coaches I managed to get him to do a few serves against me they were very very deceptive and I really struggled against them but when he showed me what he was doing from his point of view they looked very simple action wise, just shows how easy an action before/after of making contact with the ball can change the perspective of what spin the opposition thinks is on it.
Siva, have you by any chance checked out Werner Schlager serve tutorials on YouTube he explains how Mizutani differs from heavy topspin to heavy backspin with the same action well worth the watch. [emoji2]
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Hey Pricey, cool yeah I know those camps! I hear they are great. I am going to be a coach on one of those soon just need to find the right time/weekend
Yeah I know what you mean, I have spoke to Craig re his serves in the past. They are very deceptive, I have seen Waldner push Craig's topspin serve
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It did not go down well haha. Keeping serves simple I think is very important. This means you can be deceptive pretty easily and then over time you make your follow through more complex.
Ah yes I know the video you mean of Schlager, I love that video! You can watch it below here for anyone who is interested:
Hey Dan, thanks for your commet. In my experience with the serve, i was not able to serve the topspin with the same motion. What could be the reason?
What I was doing to get heavy back and side spin is to contact the lower hemisphere slightly tiled for the heavy back-side spin and the side of the ball for heavy sidepsin. I wonder how PAr gerell does the top spin togther. If i do contact the top of the ball it produces the ball jumps too high and it is an easy prey. I ll check with Gavin Rumpery and craig bryan in youtube. May they got some interestng stuff to teach through their plaz
It is quite hard to explain without doing it via video, real life. Ideally you want to bat to go upwards on the ball during the serve to produce topspin, there are a few variations to do this. Rumgay's way is slightly different to Schlagers way. Watch Schlager's demonstration in the video above, this will give you a great understanding
Dan, can't you meet up with Craig to do a video?
Great idea Tinykin, ill try my best to do this
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