In many countries such as France, it is possible to teach padel as a tennis teacher, but is that as far as you have the skills?

certainly the padel is a racket sport with a yellow ball that looks so similar to tennis! But that's when coming back on a short padel with experienced players that we become aware of all the subtleties that are hardly visible at first!

It's a bit like comparing windsurfing to kitesurfing ... of course knowing how to play tennis gives you many advantages in getting to padel, however, it can also be disabling! It's not always easy to reduce your major tennis preparations, to ignore your bad reflexes to wanting to play in open spaces, strong or even on the fly when you are behind the white line!

To make the link between the two activities and thus be able to teach padel in a relevant way, the trainer will need to appropriate different content:

As a player:

  1. Learn to adapt your own tennis gestures through technical lessons specific to the padel.
  2. Appropriate the playing area to better understand the strategies to be implemented and the need to adapt your technique through matches with experienced local players.

As a coach:

  1. Assimilate the learning chronology through the experiences of experienced coaches.
  2. Build up a repertoire of valid exercises according to the situations and profiles of the players concerned thanks to the observation and participation in the supervision of training of all levels and ages within a Spanish school as an assistant '' a French-speaking or English-speaking Spanish coach.

As animator and coordinator of a school padel :

  1. Take note of all the ideas of fun activities and management of competitions appropriate to different types of public

OSS which has the will to help the padel to develop internationally offers personalized training at any time of the year.

The modular standard program below aims to give coaches the opportunity to orient themselves the content of their training according to their needs and the aspects which seem to them to be a priority at the time of their internship in Barcelona!

  • 8h private lessons
  • 8h games
  • 15 p.m. Coaching Assistant
  • 5 hours personalized theory sessions according to the coach's needs

+ info:

Isabelle VANNIER tennis teacher BE 2 and padel having lived in the USA, and expatriated in Spain for more than 10 years, organizes sports and language courses in Barcelona, ​​through its OuiSportSpirit structure - www.ossbarcelone.com and more particularly in the world of padel and tennis through the OSSTP department - www.padelbarcelona.com. We look forward to welcoming you soon!