| I said learning to serve in tennis can be easy and I | | | | in tennis, it means you have no focus and can't |
| meant it. | | | | improve significantly. |
| The best way for you to learn to serve in tennis is to | | | | Bruce Lee put it quite elegantly when he said don't |
| practice. However I want to give you a few pointers | | | | point at the moon while looking at your finger. I'm |
| of advice that will make your next practice different. | | | | paraphrasing but the emphasis is on not worrying |
| These secrets really do make learning to serve less of | | | | about one thing and missing the big picture, be with |
| a burden on you. | | | | everything. |
| My first bit of advice, as I frequently say a lot, is to | | | | Your body and mind know how they want to apply |
| forget all the knowledge on serving you think you have. | | | | power onto the ball and most players try to interfere |
| That knowledge hasn't worked for you yet, so put it | | | | with that process to much. Your body will adapt |
| aside for a practice or two. What could it hurt in the | | | | naturally and confidently to each new challenge that |
| long run? Yet trying something different could be the | | | | will erupt on your path to your own unique powerful |
| greatest bit of help you've ever given yourself when it | | | | serve. |
| comes to tennis. | | | | Lastly never give up. To many players have put tennis |
| A powerful serve is all about feeling it out. Let your | | | | on the back burner because of their inability to develop |
| body do what it is imagining itself doing in your mind. | | | | a powerful serve. Not to mention your going to have |
| Don't try to control every detail because your losing | | | | whole new levels of play once you develop your |
| sight of the big picture. Losing control of the big picture | | | | serve to a certain extend. |
| is the biggest cause of trouble when learning to serve | | | | |