Welcome to the serve consistency video. In this video, we're going to focus on how to be more consistent with your serve. Now the reason this is so important is because one of the biggest things can hold you back as a tennis player is losing your serve, meaning double faulting not getting enough serves in. 

So the game we're gonna play is something really simple, but really critical for you to improve your serve consistency. That's called playing Bob, pretty much I have an imaginary opponent on the other side called Bob, what we're going to do is go through a serving sequence, i want to keep track of score.

 Now I recommend in the beginning, if you're not confident in your serve, that you play Bob, starting from 00. As you get more confident in your serve, what you're going to want to do is stack the game against you, meaning that I might start playing the ball at 15-30, meaning I'm down. And the way we're going to play Bob is simple that I'm going to serve and hit a first serve. And if I make it, that's my point, if I miss it, I have to go and hit a second serve. And if I double fault, Bob gets a point. If I make that second serve, then I get a point. So you can see how I'm just trying to mentally train myself to get better at hitting second serves. If I'm putting that position. 

The other side of it is this to be more consistent on your serve, you want to create more margin over the net and create more spin. If you want to learn how to hit more spin on your serve, the first thing you can start doing really simply is swing more left to right when you're going up to hit the ball. After that, if you want to know more detail, make sure you check out the videos to go over the slice serve and the kick serve. So let's get started. We're gonna start this really simple. And I'm gonna start 00 playing Bob and just show you how this works. And then I'm going to take it up a notch and show you how you can increase the difficulty of playing Bob. 

So it makes it a lot harder. So let's get started. It's 00, I'm going to come up  the line and hit my first serve. So I hit my first serve. It's in now  it´s 15 love, Bob. Oh, bad toss. I hit another serve in. So again, it's 30 zero. So I missed my first serve. And now I have to hit a second serve. I hit my second serve, so that counts for me. And so still, it's 40 love, you can see how the whole thing works. And you play it out all the way into you get a game. So right now, this probably isn't challenging me that much. But if it's challenging you that's great continue, how you can increase playing Bob and make this a lot more difficult is actually starting down in the match. So let's say we're gonna start from 15/40 Bob's up 40. 

So we're gonna start from here and see how it turns out. So now it's 15/40. So that's my first serve, went in. Now it's 30/40. Now I made another one is Deuce, you can see how this could put a lot of pressure on you. If I missed that ball and had to do a second serve, I don't want to lose that. Now there's one more element you can use to make playing Bob even more difficult, which is adding a placement, meaning that you have to select your placement of where you want to hit it. And if you don't hit that placement, then it doesn't count. So let's play a couple points like that starting from 00. So my first placement starting on the do side is going to be forehand out wide. And if I don't hit that placement, then it's a fault. So that's a little bit too much in the middle. Now I have to hit a second serve. So I'm gonna try to do the same second serve, maybe in same placement or different placement. So the placement I want to choose is going to the backhand side using more spin. 

So that's the second serve. I got it. So now I'm still up 15 love. Now you see how this can put more and more pressure on me because now I have to hit a certain location. Again, you could do so many different variations of playing Bob and making sure you add more pressure by just starting out trying to make your serve. 

Then you can start up by giving Bob more points then you can also start out by making sure you have to hit in certain locations. And if you really want to make this difficult hit certain locations and be down. Either way this will really train you to be much better at dealing with pressure and being consistent on your serve.