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Welcome to Black Belt Tennis
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.
Using the Opposite Hand to Improve Your Tennis Game – Part 3
So, we have already discussed two very important uses for the opposite hand while playing tennis. First, how the opposite hand relaxes the grip hand, and second, how the opposite hand is the “computer chip” used to control the racket and change
Using the Opposite Hand to Improve Your Tennis Game – Part 2
In the last article I talked about how the opposite hand can be used to RELAX the grip hand during groundstrokes. We learned to make a “shelf” for the racket, creating a great balancing point that allowed our dominant hand to ease
Using the Opposite Hand to Improve your Tennis Game – Part 1
The number-one reason for learning to use your opposite hand in tennis: to RELAX the grip hand. By relaxing the grip hand we gain two benefits immediately. First, we save wear and tear on the hitting arm, which significantly diminishes