Sharing 65 Years of Lessons and Insights
Teaching at the Roy Barth Tennis Center,
Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Charleston, South Carolina
Roy Barth | Publications
My Tips for Better Tennis Booklet and Tips for Better Tennis DVD have been staples of my longtime teaching success. Join the hundreds of students who refer to these publications year after year to keep their games in top shape. My upcoming book, Point of Impact, is my story — great tales from the tour and from the early days at Kiawah. So many lessons I learned on the court proved valuable to my success in business and in life.
Scroll down this page to read about each publication or click the links below to purchase one.
Point of Impact — Read about my first match at Wimbledon
Tips for Better Tennis DVD — Turn up the volume and enjoy a video montage from the DVD
Tips for Better Tennis Booklet — See a sample page (how good is your Follow Through?)
Point of Impact
Read it. Enjoy it. Recommend it.
Point of Impact is my story: junior tennis, #1 at UCLA, the pro tour, and 40 years growing and managing the #1 tennis resort in the world. The lessons I learned on the court became valuable lessons off the court. Read the reviews and a sample chapter and then reserve a copy.
Tips for Better Tennis DVD
Sometimes you just need to see it.
My Tips DVD is filled with video of the strokes I have used and taught to others for more than 60 years. I’ll explain my Key Foundation Points, highlight my pros in action, and show how I teach my students. After you see us do it in the DVD, you’ll see yourself — and your students — do it on the court.
Click on this video to watch a one-minute montage of the DVD. Buy it to get all the valuable tips. Your game will thank you.
Filmed at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Charleston, South Carolina
Page 9 discusses the importance of the Follow Through. Click on the image to see it larger.
Tips for Better Tennis Instruction Booklet
Read it. Refer back to it. Keep it in your bag.
My Tips Booklet, now in its third edition, has been a staple of my teaching success for more than 40 years. Just ask the hundreds of students who have it, read it, and rely on its wisdom. Here are two of them.
I think that the combination of your clear writing style and intense focus on what's really important makes it one of the most useful tennis instruction books ever written.
Herman Gluck, Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
I was fortunate to spend time learning from Roy at his tennis center on Kiawah Island, several years ago. Roy’s wisdom from being a professional player, along with decades of experience as an instructor, are unmatched. Roy has a unique teaching method that makes sense for any level of player. His key foundation points improved my strokes immediately and also provided me with a clear, consistent framework that helped improve my students’ games. If you get a chance to speak to Roy or to read his book, you will walk away with more knowledge about the game of tennis than you could have imagined.
Julie Wood, Certified PTR Instructor, Founder of Tennis Junior 10 & under Community Program, New Albany Tennis Center, Columbus, Ohio.