I used to serve with my non racket foot forward, but then someone told me I should serve with my racket foot forward, I tried it and I preferred it a lot more. Serving with the racket foot forward enables me to be more aggressive on my next shot because I had the ability to step forward in one step, leading with the racket foot; as you would approaching the net anyway. I found it easier and faster for me to play net kills or drive returns after my serve when serving with my racket foot forward.
I feel that you should just serve with whichever foot gives you the most comfort and flexibility to be ready for the return. It may also depend on where and how you intend to serve.
Non racket foot forward for me. As you require your arm on your non racket side to be in front, ie holding the shuttle in front of the racket this feels far more comfortable for me. Either way it's only around half a foot so i'm sure it's a preference thing.
i have never thought about what foot is in front..so i cannot even say how i do it recently i tried standing with parallel feet but stoped it because i was not able to move back or forwards quickly enough that way i think i put different feet forwards, when i stand on the left side of the court i put my right front forward and when im serving on the right side i put my left foot forward?! i will check out tonight
so i looked down today and i have my racketfoot in front..on both sides serving..what a silly idea i had in the previous post ^^
Racquet foot forward. Apparently the correct way is to either have the racquet foot forward or both feet roughly parallel to the net, never non-racquet foot forward?
Don't need much swing, but I'd put my back out of place if I tried a sudden flicking movement in that twisted position. Yah, I know... I'm getting old.
Okay. It doesn't seem twisted to me. Unless maybe your foot is pointing at an angle, so that your body has turned a bit? But yeah, not wanting to wrench your back is a pretty good reason for preferring one way or the other. Yes, they do.
I don't think I've ever seen any of the top 100 international players serve backhand with the non racket foot in front... cmiiw. Another disadvantage of it is I would be slow to respond to a reply to my backhand.
It's certainly a lot less common than racket-foot forwards. I have seen top players do it, but that was some years ago. I think the most common by far is racket-foot forwards; then a much smaller number of players prefer feet level; and very few prefer non-racket foot forwards. Maybe. Maybe not. It might actually be better for moving to the backhand net. But I guess interceptions could be trickier. Of course, there should be some kind of split step anyway. On the whole I think racket-foot forwards is probably marginally better, but it's not something I would try to "fix" if a player preferred non-racket foot forwards.
Abt backswings on flick serves, good n undetectable serves only uses strong wrist flicks. My good/effective flick serves only speeds up the serving motion in the last few 2-3inches before impact, which is practically the starting position of the serving wrist. If there is a backswing on a backhand flick serve, wouldn't that be somewhat ILLEGAL? Like the Danish top doubles player? I am sorry i don't remember his name
