I am coaching my son, because the local coaches are to expensive and not quite qualified. Then don’t really care about improving your level. Thanks to your videos I have learned a lot of things and I was able to make a tremendous improvement in my son's game. He took a second place in a city tournament this September, however, about half a year ago he lost almost all games in such tournament. Keep up making good and useful videos. You are a very good coach.❤
I really appreciate you posting lessons with students. It's always one thing for a coach to post a video solo, but helping a client/student out adds another level of visual comparison.
This video showed me you have even more to offer in terms of spreading knowledge to your students and viewers. How quickly you’re able to view a mistake and fix it in a matter of minutes by explaining was incredible.
It is extremely helpful to film yourself to improve your technique. This is a great example. She was convinced that her most important problem was her toss (which is what she sees), but for anyone watching the video the foot fault was absolutely evident from the very first serve she made. Great video, as always.
Great video on serve as ususal. The best parts are at 4:15 on 1-2-3 rhythm and at 15:12 on releasing the ball at chin level. Two simple tips with outsized benefits.
Thank you so much, Coach Nick. You have such a smooth teaching style. I will use this approach teaching my students. Ppl will study your videos decades into the future! Keep it up!
LOVE THIS! I've been struggling with my leg drive and forward momentum. Tried your 1, 2, 3 method and the tip about tossing at chin level today during serve practice and it worked like magic. The knee bend and forward lean on the toes made the leg drive and forward momentum so intuitive, it was happening on auto pilot. Interestingly my stance also naturally changed from a platform stance to a pin point stance without me noticing until I watched my own recordings. Great job coach! 🙌🙌
Hello Nick, Great lesson on the serve. The young lady is certainly a fine player. It was absolutely imperative that you corrected her foot faults. You did an outstanding job of helping an advanced player break a bad habit. It is interesting to note that some top servers like Federer and John Isner will hit a few practice serves with their front foot drifting over the baseline. They, of course, can effortlessly transition into their normal serve. I have found this little routine somewhat helpful when warming up. Norman Ashbrooke
Terrific video! Like all your instructional videos helpful and intuitive to the individual, yet managing to broadly answer anyone's questions about the serve. I haven't tried out your instructions yet ( there's a few inches of snow outside) but I think my foot faulting days are over. Cheers
The best tutorial ever! what are the odds, I was doing foot faults since a month don't know how it started and was thinking to fix it today morning before the tournament which starting this weekend, and youtube suggested me this, amazing! glad I watched it. Thank you as always Nikola, you are a wizard
Great points re: the Sampras analogy! Creates a very natural progression and load. Plus it enhances her form, if that were even possible. Tried the sequence this morning and hit a handful of aces.
I used to play competitively as a junior then I wasn’t serious I’m high school or college. After 10 years I’m back to playing and my consistency is absolute trash which I never expected because tennis used to be second nature. Only after the beginning of this video I realized now I’m pulling back too early and my racket is low not high when I pull back. Thank you so much!!!
Your coaching is sooooo good and spot on. I now know why when i do my mechanics right, I don't footfault!!! I have the same footfaults that she does. Thx. BTW through your instruction she seems to be going to a pinpoint stance!@@!
Amazing video. I need this correction as well cannot wait to apply it and wait to see if I will end up in with a pinpoint stance. Thank you for the video coach. More power Intuitive Tennis
Good coaching as usual. Since I haven't played in 30 years I'm having to adjust everything to get away from old muscle memory. So I've switched to pinpoint to stop pulling my shoulder forward
That's a really great video, and not the only one from you that I watch from France ! I wish I have had a coach like you because my serve woud not have been my limited factor.
Great lesson coach! I used to play against a chronic foot-faulter. Very annoying, and it is nothing less than cheating, intentional or not. A must fix for any serious player.
Platform worked for Sampras and Federer LOL! I use the platform but it's because I was copying Sampras as a kid. It's more like a mini squat. I think everyone uses the pinpoint because everyone plays the same style on the WTA. It happens naturally as a player shifts their body forward into the serve. Sara made the adjustment really fast.
Yes! I think, I think I had pinpoint until my 18 yrs tennis pause (I remember completely destroying top of my right shoes). When I came back in 2020, I definitely went to platform because Sampras and Federer. A narrower platform, maybe more like Noles. I do see overall fastest serves are pinpoint. I don't have the coordination now to do it.
You have very good instructional videos. I like the way you are able to coach to the level of the player, make them feel comfortable, and "intuitively" allow them to improve their game. Your instruction reminds me quite honestly of how Paul Annacone teaches as he too promotes working thru and figuring out strokes as well as match play. Keep up the good work!
These videos are great, definitely helping with my serve and attempting to change to a modern forehand. A bonus watching these lessons; Nic's students are very attractive. Then there's Shamir.
I remember servisman Milan Srejber from Czechoslovakia. He was like Karlovic. His best was final in Miami. And he moved all the time his feet so he started to toss far away behind baseline.
I think a consistent toss is difficult if you have a double knee bend which Sara had at the start of the video. Especially if it's jerky. Her legs straighten for the toss and then they have to bend again for the rest of the serve. Has there ever been a pro that does this?
You're amazing Nick ,great lesson ,great explaination very clear ,calm and few words to transform a serve.I wanna flight there from Italy to take few lessons,or you can be my guest here to teach me if you want Nick
Nick that was a quick fix. I wonder whether Sara had already mastered the serve as I noticed that she was getting on to pin point stance long before you noticed it.
The first 9 minutes Nick was right on target with the service motion, and then I was going to comment that he forgot one thing, the knee bend, then in the 9th minute he introduced the knee bend, so now her serve has all the components and Nick is right on target, the only issue I have with her is how did she not know this and apparently she played D1 ??
One question: I am an advanced player and the serve used to be my most natural shot. Back in the days was also serve and volleying a lot. Then I started tossing the ball all over - oftentimes behind me when trying to toss higher or tossing to low. The result is poor serving anxiety also conditioning the rest of my game. Do you have any tip on how to recalibrate it?
hello Nick, do you know what characteristic of the racket/string leads to the difference in sound between your racket and Sara's upon contact with the ball? Yours seems to have a sharper noise while hers is more dull.
You should be filming her and then showing her and explaining while ur watching the side clip. Like Ian does with his iPad. The absolute best way to make corrections.
Hey nick, nice lesson! Could you make a video on how to handle an opponent constantly making foot faults at the amateur level? Usually is fraud upon to call on foot faults, but I find it only fair to play by rules.
Lol not sure if it’s too late to respond, but I don’t think that’s a tennis problem. I think that’s just a communication issue. You should just be up front with them and let them know they are making too many foot faults. If you’re embarrassed to call them out, make a joke out of it, and poke fun each time, but since you are annoyed enough at them to ask, definitely say something to them.
Nick is a fantastic coach. But, she is a D1 player. Why haven’t any of her coaches corrected all this before? When I’m next in Florida, how can I get a few lessons with Nick?
+Intuitive Tennis Is it a well known problem for tennis players that serving gets drastically more difficult and worsened as string response stiffens up the colder and less sunny it is? I find its impossible for me to serve well unless its warm and sunny enough. The stronger the sun the better!
hey, I am currently using the pro staff and I am looking for a bit more of power but without letting go the control too much. What would you recommend? Thanks
I'm trying to stay focused on tennis, but getting distracted all the time by a couple of some round shape bouncy things... simply can't help it😂 I must stay focused!
She has a pinpoint stance not platform (7:05) good correction though! Definitely a pet peeve when an amazing player does a foot fault or cant toss the ball 😅😢 another way she can learn it is the Roddick way, just sinking into the balls of both feet
Good help for her avoiding the footfaults with this 3-step-method, but she is also not really activating her legs for the serve (I don´t do it too, but I´m 189cm). She could accelerate and speed up more, if she would/could jump into the serve, that also would avoid footfaults, because her feet would be in the air, when entering the court 🙂
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I am coaching my son, because the local coaches are to expensive and not quite qualified. Then don’t really care about improving your level. Thanks to your videos I have learned a lot of things and I was able to make a tremendous improvement in my son's game. He took a second place in a city tournament this September, however, about half a year ago he lost almost all games in such tournament. Keep up making good and useful videos. You are a very good coach.❤
I really appreciate you posting lessons with students. It's always one thing for a coach to post a video solo, but helping a client/student out adds another level of visual comparison.
This video showed me you have even more to offer in terms of spreading knowledge to your students and viewers. How quickly you’re able to view a mistake and fix it in a matter of minutes by explaining was incredible.
A briliant teacher at work. Unmissable content. As always.
That's the best serve lesson by far on RUclips right now!
It is extremely helpful to film yourself to improve your technique. This is a great example. She was convinced that her most important problem was her toss (which is what she sees), but for anyone watching the video the foot fault was absolutely evident from the very first serve she made.
Great video, as always.
This is hands down the best and most detailed serve video I've seen, fantastic Nick.
🙏🙏
Great video on serve as ususal. The best parts are at 4:15 on 1-2-3 rhythm and at 15:12 on releasing the ball at chin level. Two simple tips with outsized benefits.
Downloaded this video in FULL resolution so I can study it anytime I need inspiration. Great resource!
THank you very much for your observations and your generosity in sharing your coaching experiences, Coach Nikola
Thank you so much, Coach Nick. You have such a smooth teaching style.
I will use this approach teaching my students.
Ppl will study your videos decades into the future!
Keep it up!
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LOVE THIS! I've been struggling with my leg drive and forward momentum. Tried your 1, 2, 3 method and the tip about tossing at chin level today during serve practice and it worked like magic. The knee bend and forward lean on the toes made the leg drive and forward momentum so intuitive, it was happening on auto pilot. Interestingly my stance also naturally changed from a platform stance to a pin point stance without me noticing until I watched my own recordings. Great job coach! 🙌🙌
Excellent, Excellent, Excellent Nick !!! This is good instruction for anyone.
Hello Nick,
Great lesson on the serve. The young lady is certainly a fine player. It was absolutely imperative that you corrected her foot faults. You did an outstanding job of helping an advanced player break a bad habit. It is interesting to note that some top servers like Federer and John Isner will hit a few practice serves with their front foot drifting over the baseline. They, of course, can effortlessly transition into their normal serve. I have found this little routine somewhat helpful when warming up.
Norman Ashbrooke
Nice! Such a simple fix. Thanks for explaining the steps so clearly and repeatedly showing their perfect execution.
I will never forget that lesson.
Great teaching progression from the bottom up!👍
Yes her bottom is perfect
Terrific video! Like all your instructional videos helpful and intuitive to the individual, yet managing to broadly answer anyone's questions about the serve. I haven't tried out your instructions yet ( there's a few inches of snow outside) but I think my foot faulting days are over. Cheers
I thought I was the only one that does the 123 with my students. To know coach nick does it too makes me feel special!
No more Foot Faults...and an organically produced pin-point serve! Way to go! 🎾
The best tutorial ever! what are the odds, I was doing foot faults since a month don't know how it started and was thinking to fix it today morning before the tournament which starting this weekend, and youtube suggested me this, amazing! glad I watched it. Thank you as always Nikola, you are a wizard
You are so welcome!
Thank you ❣️serving has become my weakness after many years of not playing; and this is tremendously helpful ❣️
That last serve, amazing. Looks very good! What a transformation in 1 lesson. Well coached!
Thank you very much!
👍very good coaching and explaining. Great job. The woman learning also very quick. She is doing what the coach tells her. Great video👍😎
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏
Applying this on my serve and now have much better pacing, toss and timing to hit the ball. Gained a lot of consistency.
Great points re: the Sampras analogy! Creates a very natural progression and load. Plus it enhances her form, if that were even possible. Tried the sequence this morning and hit a handful of aces.
Also noted, after watching Sampras slo-mo serve vids, he's already rocked forward and starts his toss, coil, and leg load simultaneously. Arsesome!
I used to play competitively as a junior then I wasn’t serious I’m high school or college. After 10 years I’m back to playing and my consistency is absolute trash which I never expected because tennis used to be second nature. Only after the beginning of this video I realized now I’m pulling back too early and my racket is low not high when I pull back. Thank you so much!!!
Your coaching is sooooo good and spot on. I now know why when i do my mechanics right, I don't footfault!!! I have the same footfaults that she does. Thx. BTW through your instruction she seems to be going to a pinpoint stance!@@!
This is great stuff! As I'm watching I realize that I'm tossing during the second step and not the third step. This should help a lot! Thanks Nick!
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Amazing coaching. I work on your tips in VR - First Person Tennis with racket adapter.
Hi dear hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with us dear.
Love your videos. They helped me so much. Thank you!
Glad to hear that Daniel
Great video! Transformation before our eyes!
Almost everyone at our social tennis sessions foot faults. I will recommend them to watch this video! The fix is as easy as 1,2,3 ❤
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Amazing video. I need this correction as well cannot wait to apply it and wait to see if I will end up in with a pinpoint stance. Thank you for the video coach. More power Intuitive Tennis
Really picked up a lot from this lesson. Thanks!
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Beautiful forehand. .
I have this same issue thanks for posting this.
Good coaching as usual. Since I haven't played in 30 years I'm having to adjust everything to get away from old muscle memory. So I've switched to pinpoint to stop pulling my shoulder forward
Keep it up
Wow! Thanks🙏You made my day 👍🎾👊
she improved so much! much more stylish since her first videos.
Great tip. Works immediately.
Nic I luv your videos. It's transforming my game 👌
Brilliant session!
That's a really great video, and not the only one from you that I watch from France ! I wish I have had a coach like you because my serve woud not have been my limited factor.
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Great lesson coach! I used to play against a chronic foot-faulter. Very annoying, and it is nothing less than cheating, intentional or not. A must fix for any serious player.
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Excellent practical tutorial ! And this girl is super fit , pretty and such a fast learner.
We agree!
Thank you Coach for the thorough video on the serve
bloody hell Nick has definately changed his students over the years, first Shamir now Sara 🤣🤣🤣🤣 keep it up
Sara has the cutest accent.
Great detailed lesson Nik
Fantastic. I wish I lived in Florida to get in person coaching from you.
This is an awesome video. I like the breaking of the serve preparation into 3 steps.
Platform worked for Sampras and Federer LOL! I use the platform but it's because I was copying Sampras as a kid. It's more like a mini squat. I think everyone uses the pinpoint because everyone plays the same style on the WTA. It happens naturally as a player shifts their body forward into the serve. Sara made the adjustment really fast.
Yes! I think, I think I had pinpoint until my 18 yrs tennis pause (I remember completely destroying top of my right shoes). When I came back in 2020, I definitely went to platform because Sampras and Federer. A narrower platform, maybe more like Noles. I do see overall fastest serves are pinpoint. I don't have the coordination now to do it.
You have very good instructional videos. I like the way you are able to coach to the level of the player, make them feel comfortable, and "intuitively" allow them to improve their game. Your instruction reminds me quite honestly of how Paul Annacone teaches as he too promotes working thru and figuring out strokes as well as match play. Keep up the good work!
sara is a well rounded student
Amazing stuff
These videos are great, definitely helping with my serve and attempting to change to a modern forehand. A bonus watching these lessons; Nic's students are very attractive. Then there's Shamir.
Like a magician in action! 🥸🤓 It happens in front of you eyes! I love it!
Thank you so much 💚
Great work 💪
Great explanation
Incredible!
I remember servisman Milan Srejber from Czechoslovakia. He was like Karlovic. His best was final in Miami. And he moved all the time his feet so he started to toss far away behind baseline.
A true servisman indeed. 💯
Great instruction. There are some details in the weight transfer and bio mechanics I find useful.
Shoutout to the coordinating outfits!
Accidental 😂
If I'm ever in Florida I want to take a serve lesson like this. I'm a decent server but I'm sure I'd level up fast with a lesson like this.
Wow beautiful!...serve lesson
I think a consistent toss is difficult if you have a double knee bend which Sara had at the start of the video. Especially if it's jerky. Her legs straighten for the toss and then they have to bend again for the rest of the serve. Has there ever been a pro that does this?
You're amazing Nick ,great lesson ,great explaination very clear ,calm and few words to transform a serve.I wanna flight there from Italy to take few lessons,or you can be my guest here to teach me if you want Nick
Thanks much, at the beginning, who knows the reason?? to keep fluid motion? to keep coiling ?
To good nick 👍💪💪💪💪💪 😊
Nick that was a quick fix. I wonder whether Sara had already mastered the serve as I noticed that she was getting on to pin point stance long before you noticed it.
The first 9 minutes Nick was right on target with the service motion, and then I was going to comment that he forgot one thing, the knee bend, then in the 9th minute he introduced the knee bend, so now her serve has all the components and Nick is right on target, the only issue I have with her is how did she not know this and apparently she played D1 ??
One question: I am an advanced player and the serve used to be my most natural shot. Back in the days was also serve and volleying a lot. Then I started tossing the ball all over - oftentimes behind me when trying to toss higher or tossing to low. The result is poor serving anxiety also conditioning the rest of my game. Do you have any tip on how to recalibrate it?
Impossible to say wo seeing it.
Here are some general tips
ruclips.net/video/Ui2-wDmNGFY/видео.htmlsi=PSnpwCW1a6ogt5Ow
@ thanks. I sent also an email with a couple of videos
hello Nick, do you know what characteristic of the racket/string leads to the difference in sound between your racket and Sara's upon contact with the ball? Yours seems to have a sharper noise while hers is more dull.
String and tension
@@IntuitiveTennis Im guessing higher tension on your racket?
@@DetectiveConan990v3 looser and more responsive strings ruclips.net/video/JefKI18-HkM/видео.htmlsi=NMOzB3jWSzwTRMrM
This makes me want to go play tennis in a snow storm. Hoping Sara needs a doubles partner.
This was helpful, I tried it yesterday and it improved my serve a lot. One question off topic, now where can I meet Sarah. LOL 😂
You should be filming her and then showing her and explaining while ur watching the side clip. Like Ian does with his iPad. The absolute best way to make corrections.
Dang! She got her moneys worth with that lesson. Well done.
Hey nick, nice lesson!
Could you make a video on how to handle an opponent constantly making foot faults at the amateur level?
Usually is fraud upon to call on foot faults, but I find it only fair to play by rules.
Lol not sure if it’s too late to respond, but I don’t think that’s a tennis problem. I think that’s just a communication issue. You should just be up front with them and let them know they are making too many foot faults. If you’re embarrassed to call them out, make a joke out of it, and poke fun each time, but since you are annoyed enough at them to ask, definitely say something to them.
Nick is a fantastic coach. But, she is a D1 player. Why haven’t any of her coaches corrected all this before?
When I’m next in Florida, how can I get a few lessons with Nick?
"You can not do footfault when you loaded properly" - That's why Andy Roddick was so furious to umpire because of call that he had done footfault.:D
I need to safe this video, really usefull for me...
Master!!!
Interestingly at 13:56 she moves to a pinpoint stance. Maybe a product of the change rhythm? Anyway good lesson.
oops Nick did catch that....of course.
+Intuitive Tennis Is it a well known problem for tennis players that serving gets drastically more difficult and worsened as string response stiffens up the colder and less sunny it is? I find its impossible for me to serve well unless its warm and sunny enough. The stronger the sun the better!
Did Sara go pro? I can't find her anywhere to check.
Sara is teaching full time
hey, I am currently using the pro staff and I am looking for a bit more of power but without letting go the control too much. What would you recommend? Thanks
I'm trying to stay focused on tennis, but getting distracted all the time by a couple of some round shape bouncy things... simply can't help it😂 I must stay focused!
15:46 nice! something clicked... Eureka moment.
4:30 important
2:37 I can't believe you saw the footfault. I watched the still image for 5 minutes and couldnt see it. ill just have to watch longer.
@@sergiosimbula he was distracted
She has a pinpoint stance not platform (7:05) good correction though! Definitely a pet peeve when an amazing player does a foot fault or cant toss the ball 😅😢 another way she can learn it is the Roddick way, just sinking into the balls of both feet
More Sara vids,🙏
Coming soon…
good stuff ... all's well that ends well
Beautiful smile. Great tennis too
How to contact you. Thanks
Good help for her avoiding the footfaults with this 3-step-method, but she is also not really activating her legs for the serve (I don´t do it too, but I´m 189cm). She could accelerate and speed up more, if she would/could jump into the serve, that also would avoid footfaults, because her feet would be in the air, when entering the court 🙂
Sara is goddam amazing!!!