Tennis serve - what am I doing wrong???

i have been learning how to play tennis by watching for about a couple of months, but i am stuck on the serve, can anybody tell me what i am doing wrong? As hard as i hit the ball, i can't get a lot of power on my serve. In this video, i'm doing a flat serve. Slow motion on the 2nd part of the video.
Thanks!

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• tennis
• flat
• serve
• beginner
• intermediate
• racket

[elmusishian]

Thank you everybody for their comments!!!. I've improved my serve significantly as far as power and consistency goes. I'll try to upload another video soon.

[brightsteve]

You are missing out the TROPHY POSITION. Search youtube or google for this and you will notice that you are pausing at the wrong moment, i.e. you pause when the raquet head is down but you should pause only at the trophy position, and then the racket slingshots down and up in one movement.

[putademuerde2]

@ibo911 doing that will break your wrist

[putademuerde2]

wrong grip. use continental grip for serve... i'm assuming you are using your forehand grip, as i see in the video. next, pronate your wrist at contact point for faster ball pace, especially for flat serves. add more of your weight into the ball, not simply just jumping... only jumping doesn't give your ball any additional, imagine your weight being transferred from legs to hips to shoulder to elbow to the ball. and lastly practice practice, practice

[Slightlyplump]

i think you need major spin. basically hit upwards, and giving a lot of top spin. because the racket is launching from an angle, you also need a fairly tweaked grip to make the ball really spin. your grip will basically be like holding a forehand for a slice. than it's a matter of hitting with the right timing and distance away from you. this part really depends on your body type.

i say either that, or just slam the ball with a completely flat grip.

[ryana5809]

Left foot forward, not right foot. Contact as high as possible, and jump into it, not when it is coming down into you

[eeyoreqzx]

alll so if u fix ur elbow so make it come stright down and lower and pull it in so u dont have a 'chicken wing ' then u can exploded at the knee bend more and get more speed

[hillsong1004]

pronation.

[jongatheart]

in your case, it's mostly the grip : just experiment with slight adjustments until you feel you generate more pace, without sacrificing accuracy. also, you could pull your right leg in a bit more : the legs are rather far apart. but i really only came here' to THANK YOU' for taking the trouble to bring the evans/partland tapes to youtube. felicitaciones, 'pedrinho da mangueira'

[amas97]

to ibo911: if you use a forehand grip, you will eventually rip all of your tendons out. that is too much stress on the wrist when you snap. the snap should be an inside out forearm snap. like a baseball pitcher. you are going to hurt your wrist for good. unless you just push the ball and don't snap it. watch the pros in slow motion. and watch baseball pitchers and football qb's. every throwing sport uses a wrist and forearm pronation, not a flat pancake snap.