Beach Training

As I mentioned in a recent post, serving an ace is usually a matter of placement, rather than power. Having said that, the ace is often set up with a couple of powerful serves followed by a slower, more accurate serve.
This diagram shows the areas on the court where you are most likely to hit [...]

In 1999 I watched Karch Kiraly playing at a World Tour event in Lignano, Italy. He was jump serving at about 60% for almost the whole game, and I couldn’t work out why? it looked like he was just rolling the ball at his opponents so they could smack it back at him.
Since then I [...]

As discussed, the focus on training on Saturday was mostly about establishing a few basic standards to see us through the season. We focussed on our greatest strength (service), and our greatest weakness (setting). The NE rule was implimented. We both made the mistake once, did the push ups, and then hit the ground for [...]