Roundhouse serve

Question
I have been looking for cues to teach someone how to use the roundhouse
serve. Can you help me?

Answer
Hello!

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I haven't heard that phrase in a long time.  Why are you asking?  Have you seen video of it?  

The serve most the most popular on Some of the Asian men used that serve in the 80's.  Now, with the belief in the men's game that disrupting the opponents serve reception is a massive priority, the more risky serves have taken the place of the roundhouse floater.  I don't that I've seen a roundhouse serve in the past 20 years........but w/o satellite, I don't see hardly any vball, except for beach.  

What makes the roundhouse so unique is that the elbow doesn't bend!  Roundhouse servers start with their hitting hand down, at thigh level, and the arm straight.  The ball is tossed, and their arm whips around in a catapult-like fashion......but not as fast as you would imagine a catapult swinging.  The serve isn't tough b/c of it's velocity.  It's meant to be a floater serve that, b/c of the power generated from the arm swing, can be hit from as far behind the endline as the server wishes.  Back in the 84 and 88 Olympics, they were serving 50 feet or more behind the endline.

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Tom Houser