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                          Revolutionary Tennis



                                    Tennis Instruction That Makes Sense



                         Serve:



                         WRIST SNAP DRILL



� Mark Papas

mark@revolutionarytennis.com



The wrist is too delicate to fool around with, any isolation exercise must be approached with

caution because the wrist can easily be strained. If you literally isolate the wrist the range of

motion used is small, as in wrist curls with weights or squeezing an object in your hand. Isolating

the wrist for a tennis serve must be done carefully to avoid injury and within the context of the

serve itself to develop real-time muscle memory.



Objective: increase wrist snap, its use and familiarity.



Goal: from your service line snap the wrist to bring the ball into the opposite service box.



Method: open your stance, bring the back foot around to simulate an open forehand

groundstroke (protecting your shoulder since you will not be shifting body weight or swinging

fully to assist), and place the racket behind you and down the back (the back-scratch position).

Relax the wrist and arm. Toss the ball, no need for a "perfect" toss here. Swing up and

aggressively snap the wrist but STOP the racket immediately after the snap to isolate the wrist

snap - keep the arm/hand/wrist up (the arrow) and the racket points down and stops moving

(the two parallel lines). Pause after contact in this position for memory, arm remains very bent.

This emphasizes a singular wrist movement. It is a single-plane snap, not a multi planar snap,

because you are not hitting up and for distance and power and getting it in. But you need to get

the hang of loosening the wrist and of isolating only this movement (which occurs within a host of

others).



Undoubtedly you won't get the ball in the opposite service box at first, but soon you will. You'll

notice how you need to stop hitting the ball for length and instead need to stop the arm in order to

spank the ball down into the court. In so doing you will be reinforcing the arm's configuration

just after at contact - the pretzel.



This drill, or any other wrist drill for a tennis serve, can be murder on the wrist. Proceed with

caution, and hit only a few balls. After you can snap the ball down into the box a few times please

stop the drill and return to the baseline and apply this element at the end of a full serve with a full

swing.



TENNIS magazine had a "Serve" issue,

March, 2005. Pros Nick Saviano and

Brenda Schultz-McCarthy's advice proved

spot-on, but celebrity teacher Rick Macci's

contribution on improving the wrist snap,

hitting what he calls "wristers," raised my

eyebrows.



He writes: "Start with a bow in your hitting

wrist (photo 1 left)... Lean forward slightly

at the waist... toss the ball in front of you

and bend your wrist back (photo 2) and

snap the ball down using only your wrist (photo 3)... you want the ball to make a loud sound and

a high bounce." Rick's student shows his ideas.



Feel free to try it out if you want, you decide which method better reinforces the wrist snap from

an overhead position for a tennis serve, which method least leads to injury, and which method

makes more sense.



[Macci photos TENNIS, march, 2005, photos by Manuela Davies/PROPIX]



                                                                                  � Mark Papas Serve Wrist Snap Drill p.2 /2