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:
As a coach:
As animator and coordinator of a school padel :
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!
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