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Padel Etiquette and Rules For Non-Umpired Matches
During friendly matches and most amateur tournaments padel matches are played without an umpire. The qualifying rounds of World Padel Tour don’t have a referee either. This means that the players will have to judge certain things themselves in an amicable manner. Let’s talk about some of these things to keep an eye out for…
Five Different Ways to Improve at Padel
Here’s a quick list of five different ways you can improve at padel. Go through them whenever you feel like you’re stuck in a rut and you’re not improving much.
The Rivals’ Mistakes are Our Points
Let’s start with an obvious statement. Winning a point with a fantastic smash or drop shot will have the same effect on the scoreboard as one of our opponents failing to return a serve and hitting the ball into the net. In both cases, if it was the start of a game, we would end…
Proper Breathing in Padel
Proper breathing is often a neglected element at amateur level sport, and sometimes even professionals breathe incorrectly, although nowadays with the influence of good coaches and technology this is very rare. I definitely struggled with improper breathing myself. My biggest issue was holding my breath during padel while playing shots or while lifting weights at…
How to Deal with Confrontation in Padel
Today I want to address confrontation in sports like padel, where it is quite common to have opponents try out some gamesmanship techniques to try to put you off your game. I’ll start by recounting a situation that happened to me recently while playing in a padel tournament in Barcelona. I’m always a bit on…
Fitness for Padel
Padel is a sport that requires a broad fitness regimen. Strength, speed, agility, flexibility and endurance are all athletic building blocks of a padel player. Workout routines designed for padel need to incorporate training for each of these attributes. Balanced training involves workouts on the court, in the gym and on the track. Physical preparation…
