Flat Serve Warmup Drill: Learn the Perfect Snap & Leg Drive for a Faster Serve

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The flat serve is one of the most powerful shots in tennis — but only if your timing, hand action, and leg drive work together. In today’s video, I walk you through my favorite flat-serve warmup exercise, where I demonstrate each step myself and show you slow-motion clips of my full serve so you can understand exactly how the motion should look and feel.
This drill focuses on just two essential elements:
1️⃣ Separating your hand from your shoulder so you can create a clean, powerful snap.
2️⃣ Teaching your legs to bend and lift to give you height — not power — so the ball can be hit from a better contact point.
You’ll learn:
✅ how to delay the acceleration,
✅ how to pronate,
✅ how to avoid muscling the ball with your shoulder, and
✅ how to time the jump with the snap for a truly explosive flat serve.

⛑️ What you’ll learn in this video:
🎾 Why most players accelerate way too early
🎾 How to “disconnect” the shoulder from the hand
🎾 How to pronate and strike the middle/back of the ball
🎾 How to use the legs for height, not power
🎾 How to feel the snap vs. the shoulder pull
🎾 How to delay acceleration until the perfect moment
🎾 Warmup progressions: near the net → service line → mid-court → baseline
🎾 How to keep your body over the ball for a clean downward strike
🎾 Real-time and slow-motion examples from different angles
🎾 How to train the correct intention so your timing becomes automatic
This is one of the most effective serve warmups you can do — and when practiced consistently, it transforms your flat serve into a reliable weapon.

📍 Chapters
0:00 Intro – Why this flat-serve drill works
0:33 The two main focuses: hand separation & leg height
1:11 Why players accelerate too early
1:39 How to snap the ball cleanly
2:02 Using legs for height, not power
2:47 Understanding hand–shoulder separation
3:16 Step 1: Snapping the ball down near the net
4:01 Slow motion demonstration
5:21 Adding torso rotation
5:41 Timing the snap
6:37 Moving back to the service line
7:16 Snapping into the box
7:33 Reading your shoulder activation
8:04 Body staying over the hand
9:20 New angle demonstration
9:36 Step 2: Using legs near the net
10:03 Bending for height
10:56 Height vs. power explained
11:31 Middle-court progressions
12:18 Service-line progressions
13:25 No man’s land progressions
13:57 Combining hand + legs
14:53 Baseline integration

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