Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: to learn how to serve in tennis.

This week we learnt a different technique of serving. First we had a short recap of what we learned in the past weeks. Then we got into our warm up which was a rally practice.

A rally is when a ball is served and the two players hit the ball to one side then the other. One bounce is allowed before the ball is hit each time it gets to a persons sign. During our rally practice, we learned a different technique on how to hit and serve a ball.

The Serve
We learnt a different type of serve. It was to take a ball in our hand and pull that hand up to our ear and our elbow had to stick out. Our other arm had to be straight and aiming a small amount above of our target. Then we throw and when we throw again, it has to be the same strength of hit again and again.

Shoulder Aim
Shoulder Aim is having your tennis racket in hand and the round part of the racket resting on our shoulder. Then when we serve the ball, we need to throw the ball up and use the racket to hit it. Instead of hitting underarm, we hit it upwards and over-arm. We did this diagonally because we were facing our character across the net on diagonal sides.