My experience with serving like Yoshimura Maharu (Disclaimer: My contact - different)

Hi everyone, once again with a serving tutorial of me trying to get the thought process behind my version of Yoshimura Maharu serve. It was incredibly hard for me to speak in front of camera with broken English so tolerate my annoying cuts.

First of all this is the first iteration of this video series cos I saw a slow motion footage of YM serving, he usually contacts at the lower edge of the racket both upspin and underspin with an inclined contact. I shot this video before seeing that footage. In my version I was contact usually at the top and middle of the racket. The advantage of contact at lower edge is that during the follow through there is less time to see the contact making it incredibly hard to predict. Almost except for ML, everyone has problem with this serve.

Please share your views and feedback for the serve. Hoping to come with a better version of the serve in the near future.

Disclaimer: It may look similar to my serves of the past, so I am in complete agreement if those underspins look the same.

Thanks as always for watching and sharing your experiences, cheers

ttmonster said:

@Siva : I think this needs some work to make them look similar. As in , in the underspin serve, you have to do the full pull out/up and for the topspin serve , atleast the first bounce has to be at the similar area. Otherwise, people will be easily able to tell which is which ... don't you think so ?

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Hi, regarding pulling out, I actually spoke about it in the serve motion part but in the demo I didn't acutally follow the same. Also, the downright flat contact makes it easily identifiable as backspin. I will definitely correct those in the second iteration. Regarding the positioning of the ball, if the serve was executed correctly, it hardly makes the difference because the deception actually is the key to the serve IMO