I enjoy this video so much because I would have never guessed shifting my weight and hopping to the left foot would dramtically increase my serve like it did only learning it a week ago. Faster spin, more power, and accuracy even! (literally won me most of my recent sets at practice)
You vids are amazing, Kyril, going off of them, I was able to reach near varsity this year, when I only started Tennis last year stuck at the bottom.
Keep up the good work, its helping so many people!
These videos are great! The one that has helped the most was the Roddick serving video because for the past year i have lost my serve and have not been able to find a good clean motion again even with the help of coaches, ive asked multiple coaches but all they can say is work on your toss and i know for a fact that it was not the best thing i could do for my serve. but after watching the videos and practicing the one foot-then two foot motions i have finally found my serve again and it feels so great to have this big part of my game back. i finally have a cleanly timed serve and i feel i can put my serve wherever i want with whatever spin and i finally have faith in my 2nd serve. the other video which has really helped me is the one handed backhand video. i hit a 1hbh and ever since ive had one ive had a decent motion but there’s always been something missing that has made it a liability instead of a weapon. but after watching the video the two main tips of showing your opponent you back and the relaxed spread out grip has really filled the holes in what has been missing in my backhand. before i did not rotate my body enough so it was mostly just arm strength but none of my coaches told me what i was doing wrong. earlier i went to tucson for a training trip and after concentrating on the advice given in the videos i had seen great improvement in both my serve and backhand. it feels sooooooooo great to KNOW that my backhand is now a weapon rather than a major weakness in my game. i had recently bumped up my colorado ranking from 86 to 14 in a matter of months(but now i am no longer eligible in the 16s so im now working on 18s). With the confidence brought from improving my backhand and serve other areas of my game also improved. All i can say is THANK YOU COACH KYRIL!!!!!
I love the videos, I’m basically learning tennis from these. Hard to imagine that only about a month ago i was serving underhand or a paddycake serve. Now i actually make the serves in consistently with a real grip. Its a lot of practice. I go to UCSC, who are DIV 3 champs and I picked up tennis last year around November. I cant really afford tennis lessons or coaching so these videos are a real life saver. I have a nice 2-handed back hand, a fluid forehand, and a pretty consistent serve. Also i’ve started working more on my footwork and fitness because i now really understood that getting in position is the most important aspect of the game.
Thanks a lot for being my coach, even though you dont know about it!
I could identify with your lady of your second case study in two ways. First, she was someone who played when young and then was away from tennis for a while. It is the same with me. I played a lot when I was a teenager, but only during the summer. It was just playing with friends, but we could sure get intense in the competition. None of us ever had lessons because the economics of our families didn’t have a budget category for things like that, so I know I developed some bad habits which seemed to work for me at the time. My playing stopped when we all went off to college, and then I started up again after I retired, living in a community with tennis courts as one of the amenities. Now I am playing three times a week for about two hours each time. I love it and will be continuing even though I have to play through the pain of these old feet. My layoff from tennis, you could calculate, was about 46 years.
Now, the retirement budget still doesn’t allow for tennis lessons so I did the same thing that your lady talked about — checking out the internet to get some pointers — and that is where I found you. I can’t compare you to live tennis teachers since I never had one, but I do like the way you break things down. I watched your power serve movies and liked how you broke it down into four phases, and I have started to try these out. It is hard to break old habits that you’ve gotten comfortable with, and I think your phased approach is the best way to do it.
I appreciate that you have these free tips, and I have to admit that I’m curious about your full course and the ten laws. I’ll continue playing tennis because it is great exercise and I enjoy it, but I am also a competitive person so I want to improve.
I immensely enjoyed watching the videos of the two-step serve as well as the one-handed backhand. What struck me as overwhelmingly obvious was not the game-changing techniques, techniques that were effective because they were simple, but your excitement and love of the game of tennis. As a retired teacher, I realize that the pinnacle of that love is to teach others what you have discovered. Thank you. I look forward to seeing future videos and tips from your newsletter
The video that helped me the most was the kick serve video. Last year I was looking for a slice top-spin serve. But I realized that my own kick serve was not top notch yet. Through research I realized that i could still put even more spin on the ball. I kept on hitting a kick serve contenetal getting atleast four feet when the ball bounced with pace but I couldn’t get that extra kick. After your little tip about switching to an eastern backhand grip my kick serve improved a great deal. Plus I realized that I need more head speed on my racket in order to pull of a great kick serve. My frustration and confusion dissapeared.
First of all, I am a 48 yo male and have been playing tennis for less than a year. While being athletically inclined and a usual quick study, I am still learing and fine-tuning my game. All of your videos are so amazing! I have learned so much from you. As a matter of fact, I have been on your e-mail list for quite some time now and what I’ve created is a binder of all your lessons that I have received in my e-mails to date. I’ve got a neat looking binder with a sweet picture of Roger Federer doing his signature backhand inserted in the front sleeve. I have a table of contents and each lesson is separated individually. I have referred to your lessons time and again and they have proven invaluable to the improvement of my game.
Fast forward to now. I am really glad that you have put the effort into creating this new site with all of your videos. While they are all very helpful and useful, and I have implemented elements from all of them, I am particularly fond of your two-handed backhand video. I was a player who found the two-hand backhand as awkward and uneffective. I watched so many players achieve great success with it. I tried using it on several occasions but I naturally wanted to use a one-handed back hand…it just felt very natural to me. I tried several times to implement the two-handed shot but with no success at all. After watching your video and hearing you break it down to it’s most simple elements, I now understand the shot fully and am having great success with it. I guess I never realized, or even more so, it was never taught to me that the right hand (for a righty) is just there as a I guide. You brilliantly and simply displayed this in your video and emphasized that the pwer is generated from your left (foe a righty). Additionally, you indicated the correct grips which in the past I have been told several different ways to do it.
Coach, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the things you are doing to improve the tennis game for people of all ages and all over. You are truly a gem and your instruction is easy to understand and digest. You have an uncanny way of taking something complex and breaking it down to it’s simplest form. Thanks for making my game complete!
I can’t wait to practice my serving since I watched your serving video’s. I am confident that my game will improve a lot once I implement this into my game.
I want to buy your videos, do you have them in dvd, please let me know where I can buy them, I want to learn as much as possible and I want to see the variations for different types of serves like the kick serve, slice serve and flat serve, please respond as soon as posible
Hey Coach Kyril i was having so much difficulty with my serve. The form came to me naturally when i first tried serving. but after watching this i notice what i was doing wrong xD. thanks for uploading this video. lol
However i have a question on how to toss the ball. can you email me or make a video on how to get a good toss when serving? that be really nice =]
Employing this one distinction to my serve (the right foot stepping fwd) has really allowed me – a 5′9″ player – bring heat on my serve. What bugs me however is that Federer and Sampras don’t employ this one distinction…I actually found it strange. Stephan Edberg does tho and his serve is awesome!
Bryan said
am February 9 2009 @ 11:34 pm
I enjoy this video so much because I would have never guessed shifting my weight and hopping to the left foot would dramtically increase my serve like it did only learning it a week ago. Faster spin, more power, and accuracy even! (literally won me most of my recent sets at practice)
You vids are amazing, Kyril, going off of them, I was able to reach near varsity this year, when I only started Tennis last year stuck at the bottom.
Keep up the good work, its helping so many people!
Miles said
am February 9 2009 @ 11:51 pm
These videos are great! The one that has helped the most was the Roddick serving video because for the past year i have lost my serve and have not been able to find a good clean motion again even with the help of coaches, ive asked multiple coaches but all they can say is work on your toss and i know for a fact that it was not the best thing i could do for my serve. but after watching the videos and practicing the one foot-then two foot motions i have finally found my serve again and it feels so great to have this big part of my game back. i finally have a cleanly timed serve and i feel i can put my serve wherever i want with whatever spin and i finally have faith in my 2nd serve. the other video which has really helped me is the one handed backhand video. i hit a 1hbh and ever since ive had one ive had a decent motion but there’s always been something missing that has made it a liability instead of a weapon. but after watching the video the two main tips of showing your opponent you back and the relaxed spread out grip has really filled the holes in what has been missing in my backhand. before i did not rotate my body enough so it was mostly just arm strength but none of my coaches told me what i was doing wrong. earlier i went to tucson for a training trip and after concentrating on the advice given in the videos i had seen great improvement in both my serve and backhand. it feels sooooooooo great to KNOW that my backhand is now a weapon rather than a major weakness in my game. i had recently bumped up my colorado ranking from 86 to 14 in a matter of months(but now i am no longer eligible in the 16s so im now working on 18s). With the confidence brought from improving my backhand and serve other areas of my game also improved. All i can say is THANK YOU COACH KYRIL!!!!!
Aditya Bandi said
am February 10 2009 @ 12:24 am
I love the videos, I’m basically learning tennis from these. Hard to imagine that only about a month ago i was serving underhand or a paddycake serve. Now i actually make the serves in consistently with a real grip. Its a lot of practice. I go to UCSC, who are DIV 3 champs and I picked up tennis last year around November. I cant really afford tennis lessons or coaching so these videos are a real life saver. I have a nice 2-handed back hand, a fluid forehand, and a pretty consistent serve. Also i’ve started working more on my footwork and fitness because i now really understood that getting in position is the most important aspect of the game.
Thanks a lot for being my coach, even though you dont know about it!
Adi
Joe said
am February 10 2009 @ 4:16 am
I could identify with your lady of your second case study in two ways. First, she was someone who played when young and then was away from tennis for a while. It is the same with me. I played a lot when I was a teenager, but only during the summer. It was just playing with friends, but we could sure get intense in the competition. None of us ever had lessons because the economics of our families didn’t have a budget category for things like that, so I know I developed some bad habits which seemed to work for me at the time. My playing stopped when we all went off to college, and then I started up again after I retired, living in a community with tennis courts as one of the amenities. Now I am playing three times a week for about two hours each time. I love it and will be continuing even though I have to play through the pain of these old feet. My layoff from tennis, you could calculate, was about 46 years.
Now, the retirement budget still doesn’t allow for tennis lessons so I did the same thing that your lady talked about — checking out the internet to get some pointers — and that is where I found you. I can’t compare you to live tennis teachers since I never had one, but I do like the way you break things down. I watched your power serve movies and liked how you broke it down into four phases, and I have started to try these out. It is hard to break old habits that you’ve gotten comfortable with, and I think your phased approach is the best way to do it.
I appreciate that you have these free tips, and I have to admit that I’m curious about your full course and the ten laws. I’ll continue playing tennis because it is great exercise and I enjoy it, but I am also a competitive person so I want to improve.
Richard Label said
am February 10 2009 @ 8:12 am
I immensely enjoyed watching the videos of the two-step serve as well as the one-handed backhand. What struck me as overwhelmingly obvious was not the game-changing techniques, techniques that were effective because they were simple, but your excitement and love of the game of tennis. As a retired teacher, I realize that the pinnacle of that love is to teach others what you have discovered. Thank you. I look forward to seeing future videos and tips from your newsletter
Stone said
am February 10 2009 @ 9:39 am
The video that helped me the most was the kick serve video. Last year I was looking for a slice top-spin serve. But I realized that my own kick serve was not top notch yet. Through research I realized that i could still put even more spin on the ball. I kept on hitting a kick serve contenetal getting atleast four feet when the ball bounced with pace but I couldn’t get that extra kick. After your little tip about switching to an eastern backhand grip my kick serve improved a great deal. Plus I realized that I need more head speed on my racket in order to pull of a great kick serve. My frustration and confusion dissapeared.
Walt said
am February 10 2009 @ 11:16 am
Coach Kyril,
First of all, I am a 48 yo male and have been playing tennis for less than a year. While being athletically inclined and a usual quick study, I am still learing and fine-tuning my game. All of your videos are so amazing! I have learned so much from you. As a matter of fact, I have been on your e-mail list for quite some time now and what I’ve created is a binder of all your lessons that I have received in my e-mails to date. I’ve got a neat looking binder with a sweet picture of Roger Federer doing his signature backhand inserted in the front sleeve. I have a table of contents and each lesson is separated individually. I have referred to your lessons time and again and they have proven invaluable to the improvement of my game.
Fast forward to now. I am really glad that you have put the effort into creating this new site with all of your videos. While they are all very helpful and useful, and I have implemented elements from all of them, I am particularly fond of your two-handed backhand video. I was a player who found the two-hand backhand as awkward and uneffective. I watched so many players achieve great success with it. I tried using it on several occasions but I naturally wanted to use a one-handed back hand…it just felt very natural to me. I tried several times to implement the two-handed shot but with no success at all. After watching your video and hearing you break it down to it’s most simple elements, I now understand the shot fully and am having great success with it. I guess I never realized, or even more so, it was never taught to me that the right hand (for a righty) is just there as a I guide. You brilliantly and simply displayed this in your video and emphasized that the pwer is generated from your left (foe a righty). Additionally, you indicated the correct grips which in the past I have been told several different ways to do it.
Coach, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the things you are doing to improve the tennis game for people of all ages and all over. You are truly a gem and your instruction is easy to understand and digest. You have an uncanny way of taking something complex and breaking it down to it’s simplest form. Thanks for making my game complete!
Walt
Steve said
am February 10 2009 @ 12:26 pm
I can’t wait to practice my serving since I watched your serving video’s. I am confident that my game will improve a lot once I implement this into my game.
Thanks
Steve
Vern Gibson said
am February 11 2009 @ 7:13 pm
Love the video. Is there anyway you could make a mirror image edition for us lefties?
- Thanks.
oscar lomeli said
am February 27 2009 @ 11:51 am
I want to buy your videos, do you have them in dvd, please let me know where I can buy them, I want to learn as much as possible and I want to see the variations for different types of serves like the kick serve, slice serve and flat serve, please respond as soon as posible
готовит кулинария said
am March 19 2009 @ 2:24 am
Спасибо наконец то нашла то что хотела прочитать тут. Кстати у меня есть рисунки на эту тему. Куда можно скинуть? Ещё раз спасибо огромнейшее ! :)
Екатерина said
am March 28 2009 @ 4:08 am
Спасибо наконец то нашла то что хотела прочитать тут. Кстати у меня есть рисунки на эту тему. Куда можно скинуть? Ещё раз спасибо огромнейшее ! :)
yida said
am April 10 2009 @ 9:46 pm
thanks for ur vid
Dan said
am April 20 2009 @ 8:59 pm
Just in case haha
Hey Coach Kyril i was having so much difficulty with my serve. The form came to me naturally when i first tried serving. but after watching this i notice what i was doing wrong xD. thanks for uploading this video. lol
However i have a question on how to toss the ball. can you email me or make a video on how to get a good toss when serving? that be really nice =]
Allen said
am June 9 2009 @ 2:28 pm
Coach what is the angle of tossing the ball? or how far it should be? is it by 12 o’clock or 1 o’clock tossing?
thanks
Howard Cheung said
am April 7 2010 @ 12:18 pm
Employing this one distinction to my serve (the right foot stepping fwd) has really allowed me – a 5′9″ player – bring heat on my serve. What bugs me however is that Federer and Sampras don’t employ this one distinction…I actually found it strange. Stephan Edberg does tho and his serve is awesome!
Peace