see i feel like there's a deceleration on the slice a little bit yeah i think so are you
hitting it as hard as the flat serve i'm trying to oh you are trying to okay i feel like they go
a little too wide so i try to slow down a little bit don't slow down at all see what i mean like
there's something going on that it doesn't look like you're accelerating the same way
there's something there it's almost like you're trying to manufacture this movement with the
like in isolation and you're going around the ball with the racquet just picture the finish
and that movement will be there for you okay and just unload the entire body the same way
you do on the flat accelerate fast okay unload fast on that serve go back to slice out wide
more
okay let me show you this is your slice serve that's your slice now what i want
is this i want you to unload on the slice now i'm not warmed up but you see the difference
now there's no difference between that and this i'm going to go flat down the t watch
there's no difference between me slicing and flattening the serve out
so go hard on that slice i feel like you're slowing it down you're
almost like massaging the ball
better and go flat down the tee
go back to slice unload on that slice come on load the body unload it in a violent way
there you go best one you hit so far do you see the difference so there is something going on in
the slice where you're trying to manufacture the slice it's unnecessary you already know how to
do it so you just rip command your body to do it and you already it's going to be there that's the
level you're at right now you don't have to learn the slice right you already know how to do it so
just tell yourself i'm going to slice that wide it's going to be there for you because you've got
muscle memory you know how to do it without even thinking about it right it's already automated in
other words but go hard when you do that okay and that will be it's going to result in a lot more
service winners and a lot more aces all right so now you're telling me in your match that you're
missing in the bottom of the net or in the middle of the net yes i've not seen any balls in the net
so that tells me is that some kind of tightening or some kind I'm very tight
yeah see what i mean it's tension try it's the relaxation techniques to loosen yourself up try
to like maybe if you're feeling tight you don't have to do this always when you're feeling tight
you're trying to like bounce around a little bit like shake out your arm maybe take a little bit
longer between points go to your towel try to take a deep breath breathe through your nose breathe
out to your mouth and try to relax yourself that way so you lose a little bit of that tension and then
go for the serve now here's another thing that can happen is that if you're missing a lot of
serves right let's say you miss like i don't know eight out of ten or seven out of ten so you really
a lack of confidence in the particular stage of the match so you should do there is maybe
kick a couple of first serves slice a couple of first serves so you get some like first
serves in and build the confidence back up that way and then when you start getting
some first service in then you go back for the bomb right that makes sense yeah these are the
techniques you have to do inside of a match to get the serve back because i don't see anything
technically wrong that would indicate to me that there's a problem with net errors and we can see
that because there's not a single ball in the net okay show me a kick from this side to the backhand
it's nice well the guys can't really do that much with it right no i get a lot of shanks
yeah because the ball is lively man you see how
yeah it bounced to the right a little bit yeah very nice serve
it's very lively it doesn't by the way it doesn't
have to be any faster than this this is fine the speed is fine one more
fabulous fabulous okay let's go the other way to the ad side
that is big
that's huge man nice serve now go slice down the tee
there it is but again here we have a very very weak slice serve
unload on it it's so slow that's gonna get destroyed man it's to the forehand remember
the guys are gonna unload on that they're gonna put you in a world of have trouble there
yeah you got to go for it hard now when you're slicing down the tee that's just something that
like because it's going to the forehand in your mind you got to think ace okay you got to be like
sampras sampras always went for the ace and you're a tall guy i think you got to go for the a's too
now i'm not saying go for the ace every time slide over there but when you are selecting to
go slice down the t it's got to be the intention has to be ace right all right ending the point you
go there i'm not thinking just get it in because i can't afford that i'm gonna have to go for the ace
there that's not an ace but uh it's still decent it's decent right probably not the guy if he goes
for it he might miss but you can't like place the serve there you can't spot serve there where you
can place it maybe it's going to the backhand where you want to take something off at least
have the ball go to the backhand maybe you're like kicking it there or something like that like this
you know of course you're going to do this much faster but that's where you can spot serve you can
afford the spot serve so intention has to be much different here keep keep going slice down the tee
actually you know what goes um go flat out wide first
okay go now slice down the tee toss it at 12 and really go for it
more even more than that come on unload on that thing still
bend the body backwards load it very powerfully
that was the best one so far do it again slide that toss a little bit more towards 12.
load it in a powerful way
okay see that right there i know you missed it but that's the type of slice serve that you
need to hit yeah do you understand the difference yes all right go kick out wide
that's very nice a nice placement there very nice oh again kick out wide
good action there go flat flat body
there's the body blast all right now go to slice down the t and again intention is ace
no massaging i want you to unload on this one rip more so slow that one come on faster
that's better now i know you missed it a little bit but that's the right serve now remember this
is a super low percentage serve right even though it's slice it's low percentage because we're going
for a very small area right there yeah okay we have very little room for error there and uh
when we go wide we have a little bit more room to work with also the target is further away
right which increases our chances of making it okay just like going down the line and tennis is
worse than going cross-court same exact reasons on the serve so when you're playing a match
and you decide where you're going to serve i always like
made a stupid decision to go down t tea too much i was in love with the t and i would miss a lot
more first serves because of it so going wide is going to be the safe like not safer but it's going
to be the higher percentage served right all right now you do select the serve before you before you
when you set up on the baseline you do have like a plan right okay good like what were you saying
like when you started dumping everything into the net what was going on to your head
well i tried to take a little off it yeah okay don't do that don't do that no that's going to
be a disaster when you decide to take some off to serve that's not going to be good because what
you're going to be doing is decelerating in the most important area of the serve
and it's going to cause problems you're actually going to continue to miss believe it or not
did you continue to miss when you start okay that's very usual so what you do instead what
i told you in the beginning you go a little bit less flat you might take a kick you're a very
consistent kick so you hit a couple of kick serves of the first serve when we start improving the
slice that's also another option you start slicing the first serve more then your percentage is going
to go up your confidence is going to go up okay but under no circumstance do you ever want to slow
your serve down it will come you will continue to miss and your confidence go even lower and you
might not be able to get your serve back right yeah no more slowing down no don't slow down
there it is that's a clean ace my friend i saw your video say again i saw your video which one
on the racquet tap oh you see it yeah if you almost did it wrong i know that's why i was here yeah you
do it again there you go clean racket tap you saw that serve i did that's how you got to do it
you still like look at the amount of net errors almost none so it's not even it's
not a problem at all yeah thank you appreciate it it's not a problem at all man that there's
you don't even worry about that so it's a problem of nerves yeah and you gotta control the nerves