Padel Profe: One Shot Ahead!

Padel Profe: One Shot Ahead!

One piece of real padel research per episode, argued over by a recurring cast until it either survives or does not. Full transcripts for every episode.

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September 20, 2026 • 16 mins
Padel finally has an expert-validated map of which technical-tactical objectives belong at which stage of development — but a validated map tells you coaches agree, not that the map makes players better, and it is drawn for a player who started as a child rather than one who arrived with another sport's reflexes already installed.
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Professional points break down in their opening five shots, but the club-level fix is positional rather than temperamental: what looks like patience from the outside is nearly always a player who has already arrived.
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Spain's padel surge did not just make the sport bigger — it made its centre adult and substantially female, which means the standard club session is built for a player who is no longer standard, and the sharpest place that shows up is who moves when the lob goes up.
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A study of professional matches found women play more shots and more lobs per point and work harder relative to their recovery — but the usable lesson for a club coach is not to coach women differently, it is to stop teaching the lob as an emergency exit and start counting what the players in front of you actually do.
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This study shows anxiety and padel performance moving together without telling anyone which came first — and the coach's whole session turns on whether you read that as 'teach them to attack' or 'teach them to survive the miss'.
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August 9, 2026 • 4 mins
Padel is drowning in confident advice and nobody is checking any of it. Why a show that opens the paper exists at all.
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The clearest measurable gap between a trained club padel player and a novice is not swing speed but where the ball meets the racket relative to the hips — behind them when attacking, in front of them when defending — which makes contact position the rare technical marker a coach can see across a court without any equipment at all.
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