The Drive Serve (to the forehand)

what the instructor here is trying to do is show the mechanics of a drive serve and teach beginers, that serve is good enough to demostrate, duh!!

I agree, watch the video response, thats a perfect drive.

I have to agree with most people here... The drive serve presented in this video was awful. The serve was just a good setup for the reciever. This could be because "Jose" was not low enough, and was nearly standing up through his swing.

Agreed

depending on whether it came off of the back wall or side wall first determines whether or not that ball is a setup.. often the ball will hit the back wall first and shoot back down the side wall, wallpaper. that is definitely not a setup.

Eh? That was a pretty good serve, but I would've hit the ball lower on the front wall to give my opponent less of a chance to make a kill shot off of the back wall.

But still a good serve none the less.

lol that was even worse than the backhand one. i could do better than that blindfolded. it wasnt that fast either. i would have cut that thing off before the backwall and shot it right back down that line with another 50 mph on it.

Like Smelly said.. This is a joke. He hit the ball upwards to the front wall. You can still have it bounce 2x's or come off the back wall but hit it flat. I'm no pro.. but I would have stepped up as soon as he made contact and rocket explode jam him right to the chest on the fly or splat the shit outta it off the back wall. Side out and of story!

No, this serve was very good. It will hit just short of the back wall and come off of it skimming the side wall. Very difficult to return.

I agree with endogyn. Those serves are way too high coming across the short line and yes, would probably be backwall setups.