right i mean people say you got a nice backhand right okay that's what i thought
do it again yeah when you're telling me to do more of the c-shape yeah i feel like naturally because
my arm when i toss it kind of goes here yeah so as i was doing it i went farther back i started
tossing a little more of the leg is that right that's just something i noticed okay interesting
very interesting so let me get that get this straight like when you try to bend your arm
like what's going the toss is going further to the left right because right now my arm usually
it stops here but gotcha so it's going a little bit more vertical a little more yeah okay good
yeah i mean it looks a lot cooler when the arm continues to go back you know like like
so when you toss so you let go you let go and the arm continues it looks more stylish yeah
like players who like let go and keep the arm down here looks very ugly okay but um as long
as the arm continues to go up even a little bit you're going to get the tilting of the shoulder
so the left shoulder is going to be above the right shoulder on right-handed players even if
that continuation of the left arm is only like this much you'll still get it so if you release
here and go to about right here you still get the tilt right like an isner he doesn't go very high
he doesn't go like this he goes about right here yeah so as long as you're going up you're good
i like that toss much better are you ready to rip yes here we go
they went a little bit too far to the left you saw you lost balance afterwards
much better you see that nice looking serve
how many times did you get broken against that guy that plays for tennessee i got broken once
in the first set and twice in the second set okay that's not too bad because i feel like with your
game you got to be like someone who holds serve yeah yeah that's where the serve has to come your
serve is good but we have to make it a real weapon you know we can win matches with just
get one break in the set holding serve i will say i got a lot of free points off my slice serve okay so
oh good okay well i'm glad you recognized that
this is where the slice can come in very handy you know very nice
okay do it again let's go a little bit higher on that toss yeah
i like you bending backwards though this is nice keep going
very nice good work
okay now i'm going to alternate with some kick serve very nice by the way i like that
reverse c that we talked about last time you're loading position you're bending backwards this
is a fantastic thing um now i'm going to to hit some kick serves to the deuce side okay and then
from over here we're going to do slice serves to the ad side okay we're gonna flip the script today
we're gonna take the tough serves okay because as you know it's tougher to kick to the deuce
and it's tougher to slice to the ad so give me a kick from right here okay go towards the backhand
side okay so towards the t doesn't have to be on the line but try to get to the guy's backhand
was that in okay playing with fire though we don't
like that second serve to be on the back of the line here we go
okay nice serve do it again
okay that's not bad it's a little bit soft and short yep
all right was that supposed to go to the backhand it wasn't
okay no problem the racket face opened up a little bit
get the toss needs to be more to the left
excellent serve maybe the best one you hit so far all right now go slide over go back to flat serve
load the body with that backward bend okay
see how much more pace you get on there the body helps out
there it is and it's a like it's easy power it's almost like as if you don't have to do
anything right it happens naturally all right keep it loading come on keep bending backwards
okay now go take it out wide to the backhand
absolute bomb and now give me a slice okay slice down the tee let's see what happens
okay remember the slice we talked about this last time we decided to hit the flat in the slice from
the same spot from 12 o'clock remember that yes there's an advantage on the slides when you hit
it from 12. you know why because it while it is easier to hit a slice from like two o'clock or
one o'clock because naturally the racket will continue to go towards the the right so you
get that lateral swing path naturally however um when you are doing um chin ups never done chin ups
the wider your grip is the weaker you are right so when you're hitting surfs over here the body kind
of gets disengaged and it's more the arm working so it's more difficult to make power so you have
more strength the closer you hit to your core so 12 o'clock area is a stronger area but that's not
the only advantage why you should try to hit a slice of 12 is because think about it this way
if you hit a slice of 12 you got more room here to go towards the side when you hit it here there's
not that much room the arm eventually runs out of space but from here you got a lot more room
on this side to go this way okay so you get more range of motion so slice it from 12. here we go
do it again
okay it's not bad but i want you to slide that toss a little bit more towards
yeah one o'clock but also now you're doing something where it's like a lot of players do this
they try to make slice with the arm and they forget to engage their body
yeah so they just focus on them going around the ball like that they just forget the through
the rest the you know the power sources on the serve so don't make slice with your arm make it
with the whole body so nothing changes you're still bending backwards you're still loading
the same way you do on your flat and on top of that i want you to rip the slice
because naturally the slice will have more pace i mean sorry less pace it's naturally a weaker serve
because we're making the ball spin more right so it's going to be like 10 15 miles an hour
slower than your flat if you hit it with the same amount of effort okay so go for it
slide it more towards the the 12 o'clock area
that was made there's the best one so far do it again
that's not bad come again
okay it's still kind of like spinny right a little flat i think well it's like a mixture
of like either flat there's still some kind of got a little bit of spin on there so what we
got to do is let's try to get the toss a little bit more in front of you okay
and just you got to realize visualize going towards see that door right there and the net post
you go more towards that door right there and that's where you get slice on it because
now we're gonna be making the racket go more this way okay and throw it in front
okay do it again
that's a little better come again
okay you know what happening probably what's probably happening is that because you're
throwing it at 12 it's a little bit of the kick mechanics are kicking in you know that sounds
weird quick mechanics are kicking in but you're not you're a little bit more sideways at contact
and your racket is most likely a little bit more towards the side and you're going you're going
like this a little too much all right so let's just also make sure that we rotate into the ball
just like you do on the flat surface give me a one flat serve real hard okay go flat serve big pace
okay now go slice
it's still got kick on it do it again slice
okay that was more of a slice because you threw the ball a little bit more to the right
so the issue is that you know you're still uncomfortable slicing from 12 because the
kind of accidental kick happens when you when you throw it at 12. that's right so there's something
we can work on although i do have a question on my kick sir is my toss at 12 well you can slide
it a little bit more towards 11 45. okay a little bit more towards the left give me a kick from here
like that was more at 12 but you can go a little bit more past 12 and see what happens past 12.
give me see actually let's pick up like 10 balls let's do a few more serves
for example in the first set yeah it was i was serving down four five yeah so i
was starting the same set and i hit a double fault in the first point and double fault okay
you think the reason for that is the toss
i i don't know i haven't seen you play so it's hard for me to say definitely what that is what
it is but when i saw you play for the first time last time okay here put this put these on
here let's go back over there what i did think the toss was your biggest issue but you know
the biggest issue that you had last week has already gotten better was the toss was
going too far over to the left on all serves now whether that's was the cause when you
were down probably not you're probably a little bit tight maybe and you're tightened up
you know i wouldn't worry about it too much just put in the work put in the hours put it
like just keep practicing serves it's gonna be fine trust me you got a nice serve already all
right let's go back to uh kik you asked me about the kick toss yes let's see it
okay so that's a little bit past 12 maybe like 11 50. it's slightly maybe more over but it's pretty
much in the same area but you can do think of it long term as like being able to hit all surfs on
the same spot it's going to be a big disguise as far as power is probably the most optimal
way to do it too down the road but for now if there's slight discrepancies it's okay too all
right let's go back to the slice throw it more in front bracket needs to go towards the side
remember visualize this like you're going towards the side and bring it back around have the
the palm of your hand up the the strings of the racket up towards the sky like this watch
here this is the visualization that way and then this way this is what's going to make slice
okay it's not bad but you're still throwing too far to the left
yeah it's going past 12. here we go
that was a little better do it again come on you got this
okay that was probably the best slice you've done so far you saw the the bounce of the ball was a
little bit more shallow it didn't necessarily curve because you're standing very far over
it's going to be tough to make it curve that way when you're standing there as well as a severe
rightward trajectory from your perspective but that was a better slicer you'll see the
ball more skid afterwards rather than then pop up and bounce up having said that let's
slide over towards the middle a little bit more right there okay good last one
that was more of a kick give me another one yeah last one
big slice big body involvement big power come on rip this one
that's probably the best slice you hit today you think i'm i guarantee you that was a slice
and it hit the line all right but still i feel like you could have hit
harder i still feel like your your flat service got the most action out of all these servers
by action i don't necessarily mean pace action is the whole system working to make power my whole
body is going into it exactly right all right we'll keep working man you're doing good nice job
forehand
back to me come on back to me good
get in put away oh you popped it up another set back up
don't run under the ball next to the ball come on
good on the run come back in come on
get in there come aggressive attack
another round you got to make the shot if you don't make the shot hey fight fight fight
come on no giving up over here down back to me back to me come on don't worry about that
backhand or hand come attack it and put away okay here's the thing that i want you to understand