The Total Serve ServeMaster Tennis Serve Trainer and Swing Training Tool

I have an injury to my right shoulder and I use this almost every day as an augmentation to actual serve practice in developing a left-handed serve while simultaneously rehabilitating my right-handed serve. It's a super way to develop, strengthen and maintain proper serve motion.

Good, however be careful......... have an instructor, pro server, or coach by your side for the first day. I had some bad muscle memory that is known as a leak that includes a slight wrist twist on take back. Not quite as bad as a waiters tray serve, but far from perfect.Now on the product. This contraption can be somewhat dangerous with its three balls headed straight to your face at times. Balls to your face is never really a good thing, just ask Paris Hilton. I almost quit in the first couple of minutes. However, I had a great server to help me. Yes, I know there is a grainy video that looks like it's from the 70's available, but an actual real person in real time helps immensely, not to mention saving your face, and other notable body parts from damage. I divided the lesson into three sections as recommended, and had it down in about 20 minutes to my surprise. If you saw me at first you would have said that I would never get it.It is helping my serve. If you can't do it, then you aren't serving correctly, so I was motivated by that alone. It's an eye opener. You might be surprised to know that nearly everyone on city, or school courts has a bad serve and waiter trays, or some sort of glitch. Yes, nearly everyone sucks. Only about five percent actually serve correctly. They think they are serving great, however they are not even close. They end up practicing a bad serve over, and over again until it's ingrained in their muscle memory, and they end up in real trouble. I see it all the time. They would be much better off not practicing at all. Perfect practice, makes perfect.

It’s so simple yet brilliant. The reason I didn’t give it more stars in ‘value for money’ is because you can literally make your own with old tennis balls and rope or old socks. It is of higher quality than the homemade versions but the principal is the same. Teaches mechanics of the tennis serve in an intuitive way. Helps build proper muscle memory. Will show you what is wrong with your serve mechanics through natural movements of gravity & force without requiring any higher level learning skills.

This is one of the products that you either get or you don't. For me, being able to feel where acceleration is occurring helped me to finally get when and where my power should be initiated - even in my forehand. Lisa Dodson, the inventor, said in one of the training videos that the racquet pronates, and not the player. I cannot tell you how profound that single statement was in erasing all of the other "methods" I had attempted to follow prior. I chose to also purchase her training videos and they are short but to the point. I recommend them as well. I purchased the two ball ServeMaster over the three ball version as it seemed to be easier to manage will trying to perfect the swing movement. The price may seem high, but the trainer is made well and looks to have had a lot of thought put into the design. I highly recommend this trainer as it was designed by someone who seems to get the physics of the serve.

This is an excellent innovation to improve the mechanics of your serve, letting you feel how the racquet is supposed to accelerate through the contact point and simulating the feeling of "letting the racquet do the work." Lisa has a number of videos on YouTube demonstrating the proper way to use the ServeMaster, not to mention how to serve in general. I highly recommend any serious practitioner of the game to have a look. I regularly hit with NTRP 4.5 and 5.0 level men's players and feel that the 3-ball ServeMaster is the right version for me. At 15 oz, it's also an awesome warm-up tool before swinging my usual racquet which weighs closer to 12 oz.

The item seemed very well made and would last a long time if cared for according to the instructions.There was no assembly required as it is all one rubber piece.I cannot comment of whether or not it was fun to use because I didn’t bother to use the item.I didn’t use the item because the instructions on the inside of the package recommended that I purchase the instructional lessons for an additional $39I was surprised at this because I had already paid $50 for the item. I returned the item immediately and have no plans to purchase it again or would recommend this product to anyone else.

Cool invention.Pro: Understanding the correct grip.Cons:Expensive.Could be embarrassing to be seen on a public tennis court trying this outCould hurt yourself on the downswing -- so be careful!Overall a nice invention but wasn't for me - I don't have a large private space to practice using this, and just prefer practicing serves the real way.

Disclaimer: I spent years working with a teaching pro when I was in HS and college. I recently picked tennis back up after a few years off. I was previously a strong 4.5. After returning, I started getting some horrendous shoulder pain on my serve. I thought it was due to my advancing age and I would have to stop playing. I saw this and figured it would at least strengthen my shoulder, I had already been doing rotator cuff exercises. I also thought it was stupid to pay that much for a piece of rubber but would do anything to get back into tennis. I watched the tutorial on how to use this gem and practiced for a few days. Although I already had a pretty clean serving motion, this forced me to take ALL of the tension out of my arm and BOOM.. shoulder pain gone! Also my serve has NEVER been more consistent. My last time out, in 2 hours of singles play I only double faulted twice and blame the last one on pure exhaustion. I cannot recommend this enough. It has fixed my shoulder pain and made my serve A LOT better.