says
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says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
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I saw NL for an 1.5-2 hours on his recent trip to our nation's capitol. Next Level doesn't need Der_Echte's approach or concepts to serving. NL certainly ALREADY has them and executes them to a HIGH degree of success. When you boil it down, it is only that Der_Echte uses both the fluidity of a consistent short serve motion and consistent swing speed to SETUP my deception. Yes, the after motions help a lot too (THANKS Bogeyhunter !! You Nexy CEO), but the difference is in the wrist. NL uses his change of impact point and fluidity of motion for his success, I use my wrist change and after motion to really sell it.
If you can keep the swing speed (the lower arm portion) constant or close to constant, OR make the acceleration look the same, (regardless of final speed at impact) you can vary (usually faster acceleration on a VERY short distance) with the wrist and it makes ALL the difference. It takes a real loose grip, timing, and responsive quick SHORT twitch to get the wrist to move from 20 to 100 in the span of a few CM.
Many people mistake that it takes some LARGE motion to get a fast bat, but it really only take relaxation of muscles and timing/feel + a very simple concept. The WHIP explanation as made famous by Crazy Coach Brett (the two Cs make his moniker) doesn't take a full meter to happen, it can happen effectively in a very short distance. All you need is some motion and something to stop, while naturally another part goes forward - and THERE is where you add your acceleration. You can get massive bat speed with an effective whip, there is more than one way to make an effective whip, but the same concepts apply.
Elite amature players do this as a second nature and do not think about it. They just think in their mind what they want to do tactically for a serve, visualize it, and do it without over-thinking it. They already know how to make it work. I got a LONG way to go to get to that level of serving, will still need years of practice to get to that level.
So to sum it up, to make deception, one can use the basic methods to deceive a receiver on a clean legal serve.
- Use serve motion to confuse receiver on impact point (and spin/pace landing location/depth)
- Use an after motion (or wrist pressure at impact - this is the negative acceleration) to confuse receiver at impact or immediately after impact
- Use the short wrist acceleration change (in a VERY short distance) with a smooth serve motion.
The serves that make me the most money in a match AFTER I establish that my underspin serve is heavy, (you are training them to open their bat more and fear underspin as they net it) are a DEAD NO SPIN serve and a medium to medium heavy SLOW and short underspin serve that LOOKS dead or very light.
- No Spin serve you open bat some more at impact and stop your wrist acceleration by having a firmer grip at impact or you find a way to delay your acceleration until immediately AFTER impact. You can double/triple fool someone with different after motions if they catch on.
- Medium to medium heavy short underspin, you use a SLOW arm speed, but right at impact, you are relaxed and have just stopped your upper arm to give you an anchor, for whip leverage (the elbow) and right at impact you accelerate the wrist for maybe 2 cm. The distance of wirst movement is so slight or imperceptable (if it is smooth) that the receiver reads the ball as very light - he sees some underspin and thinks it is light. The follow through of a smooth and slow lower arm adds to the selling of the serve that it is light.
Many players return my dead serve long and/or high - it is a ripe ball for a pwoer loop to nail and flex/kiss bicep afterwards.
Many players return my medium yet light spin-looking serve into the net by trying to bump it short or low. They look at their bat while I snicker like Muttley the dog from Wacky Racers.
