Session 2 – The Serve

Week 2 – The Serve

First we started warming up so that we were nice and loose and ready to do the drills. For the warm up we just started rallying with each other using any type of shot just getting used to the ball. We done this for about 5 – 10 Minutes before moving onto the main activity and skill based exercise.

In the main activity we focused on one main skill, the Serve. Service shall start with the ball resting on an open palm of the server’s free hand. The server shall then throw the ball vertically upwards so that it rises at least 6 inches after in the air away from the palm and then falls. As the ball is falling the server shall strike it so that it touches his/her side of the court and then touches the receiver’s side of the court. From the start of service until it is struck, the ball shall be above the level of the playing surface and behind the server’s end line, and it shall not be hidden from the receiver by the server or by anything they wear or carry.

After getting used to serving we added some mats into our session which we attempted to hit with the serve. We did this for a while so that then our accuracy of the serve would improve.