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Summary: Learn about the basic tennis racket grips for beginners like eastern, back hand, and continental from an expert in this free tennis instruction video.

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Joe Spano Joe Spano is a Certified Tennis Instructor, and a member of the U.S.T.A. Professional Tennis Registry for the past 30 years. Having attended and graduated for... read more

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Basic Tennis Racket Grips

On behalf of Expert Village I'm a tennis instructor in Oak Ridge, New Jersey and today I'm going to show you the basic of teaching tennis. Okay before learning the strokes of tennis the most important thing is understanding the different areas grip. Most common grip to be teaching a beginner is the eastern grip and this grip is just shaking hands with the racket so that the V of your hand comes here and you see the top of the racket is even with the V. Then you have the back hand grip which you take the 4 fingers. The easiest way to teach this is the first knuckle, the 4 finger knuckle is on top of the racket. There is a continental grip which is in between the eastern grip and the back hand grip. Continental grip is used by advance players many times and the volley stroke where they don't have to change their grip to back hand forehand. Or in the other forehand is extreme western grip. A lot of players now use to create extra top spin. These are your 4 basic grips in tennis.

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