Essential Strokes (The Basic Game) The Essential Strokes video is an instructional guide for tennis beginners. This video is hosted and instructed by Van Der Meer, who taught more than 5,000 teaching professionals around the world. On this video, he breaks down different techniques into seven different chapters which are: warm-up, grips, forehand, backhand, serve, mental tennis, and mini-tennis, respectively. In the warm-up chapter he discusses and stresses how important it is to warm up before …showed first 75 words of 469 total…

…showed last 75 words of 469 total…is also a mental game. You have to have a feeling of relaxation of muscles, feeling of calmness, no pressure feeling, feeling of energy, feeling of confidence, feeling of control over situation, and feeling of instinct. If you have the right state of mind when playing tennis, you will play at your best. And finally, he ends this tutorial with a game called mini-tennis. It helps build skills to improving your backhand and forehand shots.