Black Belt Tennis is a fun, energetic, and easy-to-follow system of tennis instruction especially designed for kids. Utilizing many concepts from martial arts, Black Belt Tennis promotes character building, discipline, and fitness, while helping students improve their tennis games.
Developed by tennis coach Steve Martin, the Black Belt Tennis teaching system is the culmination of his 16 years of coaching in different cultures around the world and his longtime passion for martial arts and self defense. This innovative and integrative approach to teaching tennis is easy to understand, and can be taught by any coach or parent.
Whether you are looking for a high-energy, rewarding, and fun system of tennis instruction for your child, or a unique, effective tennis teaching system for your trainees, Black Belt Tennis has it all.
Fundamentals Review: Introduction
All great tennis players agree that reviewing the fundamentals on a consistent basis is imperative to success on the court.
Freedom from Tennis Elbow
Anyone who takes on the rigorous, fun, and challenging game of tennis as a passion will at one point or another confront perhaps the greatest bane of the tennis player: tennis elbow. More than just a nagging ache and pain, this condition can seriously hamper not just your game, but also your lifestyle, livelihood, and long-term muscular health if left untreated.
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing: Finding the Right Racket for Your Best Tennis Game
The most intimidating task to accomplish when learning to play tennis is probably finding the right racket. One of many reasons is how many there are from which to choose. Beyond that, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that
Putting your Best Foot Forward: Finding the Right Shoes for Your Best Tennis Game
For your best tennis game, choose the right shoes based on the court you’re playing on, your foot, and your body type. New to tennis and not sure where to begin? Let’s start with the basics: finding the perfect shoe.
Tennis Parenting: Rights and Wrongs
Ask most people who’ve had the pleasure of raising up a tiny human, and you’ll often hear that the hardest job they’ve ever had to do was just that: parenting. It’s full of unexpected twists and turns, snap decisions, doubts,
Four Tactics for Setting Up Your Net Player
Doubles is all about partnership, and being a baseline player requires a certain kind of mentality to best support your partner from the back. These four strategies will help you ramp up your baseline game by granting your net partner
Developing Your High/Low Game
A big part of being a good tennis player is psychology. In singles, tennis is largely a battle of wits, but when you’re playing doubles, the stakes seem to increase as you’re not only thinking about what’s going on in
Match Readiness – Part 2
In the first section of this series, we covered how to develop the “inner world” off-court for becoming a consistently strong and successful player on-court. Here, we’ll cover the “outer” or external things you can focus on to greatly enhance
Solving One Problem at a Time
Tennis is a game of moments, of snap decisions in the face of ever-changing circumstances. A great player has mastered the art of honing the ability to navigate these moments fluidly with a calm mind, responding moment-to-moment with the appropriate
Good Communication With Your Partner Is Key
One of the most essential things you need to remember when playing doubles is the importance of communication. After all, moving from singles to doubles tennis changes the dynamic from you being on your own and you being on a