Float serve

- Khang Chin Peng

Last updated on 03-Feb-2012 03:00:22 PM

I am interested in float serve. Is it because of the massive backspin? Please teach me how to master that serve.

Thanks

and Alois Rosario said...

Hi Khang,

The float serve is a no spin serve so it doesn't have much backspin at all.

To do the float serve you need to contact the ball quite flat so that you are not spinning it mich.

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Comments on this question

JinMeng Lai commented...

on the 03-Feb-2012 02:06:08 PM

when you said flat, do you mean a vertical bat contact or horizontal?

Alois Rosario from PingSkills said...

on the 03-Feb-2012 02:25:13 PM

Vertical, so that you can hit the back of the ball without spinning it.

JinMeng Lai commented...

on the 03-Feb-2012 02:44:11 PM

I read somewhere that the benefit of doing the no spin serve is because it can disguise as a backspin serve and produce inaccurate returns from the opponent By having a vertical bat angle, wouldn't it be losing its effect as disguising as a backspin serve? Thank you.