Tennis Oxygen

One of the most difficult challenges of teaching strokes and doubles strategy has been to instill the proper building blocks that allow students to grow to the next level.  While no one improves overnight, learning to play with anAdvanced Foundation will help you build and grow your game to the next level avoiding the proverbial “taking one step back before taking two steps forward”.

The good news is that there is no such thing as the perfect swing. That is so well illustrated at the top level of the game, where Nadal and Federer could not be any more different in their ball striking methods but yet share many common denominators in every stroke. While there are many elements of strokes and doubles strategy I do not expect my 2.0 to 5.0 students to duplicate, each stroke and strategy bears basic fundamentals that everyone needs to integrate to keep improving. 
 
Build your game on the following Advanced Foundation Platforms and you will never have to change them as your game grows. 

A.The stroke platform

1.The hitting zones.

Understand your hitting zone is the most essential aspect of hitting a groundstroke.  You must understand the correlation between your grip and the bounce of the ball, since where you make contact will affect your swing.
Footwork also becomes a significant ingredient in addressing the ball in the proper hitting zone.
Shot selection when the ball is either in or out of your hitting zone is crucial when choosing the correct stroke or strategy. 
In laymen’s terms understanding your hitting zone means:

What to do when the ball is in “IT” or out of “IT” and how to find “IT”?