The serve can make the biggest impact in peoples’ games.
Recently I worked with a couple of young kids who were just starting racquetball. Because both were good softball players in high school, I had them hitting pretty good drive serves within a few minutes of instruction. I took the racquets and put them to work throwing racquetballs sidearm at the front wall. After a few minutes of that, I put the racquets in their hand and had them do the same motion. Instant forehand! The look on their faces when they hit the ball hard with minimum effort was priceless. Here’s the best part. We worked with several other players for three hours. As we were packing up to leave who was on the end court still practicing? Yep-the two kids I worked with. They were still practicing. I love that enthusiasm and it is contagious.
The enthusiasm of my athletes, young, old, skilled, unskilled, and pros-still fires me up after 45 years of teaching!!