diff --git a/config.js b/config.js
index 435c65f..28df04c 100644
--- a/config.js
+++ b/config.js
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@ export const TUNE = {
   reach: 1.3, aiReach: 1.6, // tight contact radius: the assist positions you, the tap must be honest
   swingWindup: 0.06,       // s before contact window opens
   swingWindow: 0.16,       // s contact window length
-  // ALL FOUR PACE NUMBERS ARE 1.3x THEIR ORIGINALS (16/12 and 19/22) — the whole ball, tennis and
+  // ALL FOUR PACE NUMBERS ARE 1.2x THEIR ORIGINALS (16/12 and 19/22) — the whole ball, tennis and
   // splatter, his and theirs, moved together so nothing about the relative feel shifts.
-  baseShotSpeed: 20.8, qualityShotSpeed: 15.6, // horizontal m/s = base + q*quality; perfect timing = real pace
+  baseShotSpeed: 19.2, qualityShotSpeed: 14.4, // horizontal m/s = base + q*quality; perfect timing = real pace
   // the slingshot's pace range. Weighted hard toward QUALITY so a full draw is a smash you can
-  // see: 27 m/s floppy at the minimum pull, 53 m/s at full. (baseShotSpeed above is the rally
-  // volley — shared with tennis mode and the CPU, and scaled with them.)
-  serveSpeed: 24.7, serveQualitySpeed: 28.6,
+  // see: 26 m/s floppy at the minimum pull, 49 m/s at full — the draw nearly DOUBLES the pace,
+  // which is the "harder pull, faster ball" relationship, and it is in serveQualitySpeed's share
+  // of the pair. (baseShotSpeed is the rally volley — shared with tennis and the CPU.)
+  serveSpeed: 22.8, serveQualitySpeed: 26.4,
   serveSpin: 1.3,   // extra gravity a full-power serve carries (was a fixed 0.35). Without it the
                     // net-clearance loop ate the whole smash: a flat fast ball can't get over the
                     // tape AND come down on a target, so it got throttled back to walking pace.
diff --git a/gameplay.js b/gameplay.js
index 2a854bc..8207e7a 100644
--- a/gameplay.js
+++ b/gameplay.js
@@ -861,6 +861,12 @@ function tryGunBurst() {
 // slingshot serve, stage one: the pull-back starts the toss animation. The ball rises while
 // you aim (dotted line, render.js); the release (dragServe) fires it. Only from a fresh pretoss.
 export function serveToss() {
+  // A NEW WIND-UP ENDS THE LAST SHOT'S FOLLOW-THROUGH. Without this he latched: hitServe sets
+  // pose 'serve' with poseT 0, that only expires after POSE_TIME, and the pull frame is only drawn
+  // from 'idle' — so firing faster than 0.38 s reset the timer before it could ever expire and he
+  // was welded into p_smash. Racket permanently up, balls appearing out of it, no wind-up at all,
+  // which is precisely the late-game rapid-fire look. Clearing it here restores pull/smash/pull.
+  if (score.server === 'P' && P.pose === 'serve') { P.pose = 'idle'; P.poseT = 0; }
   if (score.server === 'P' && G.phase === 'pretoss' && !ball.active) tossBall(P);
 }