What is the position of "the house"? When to use this position? Players, clubs and teachers, let's break this positioning.
On a plot of padel, there are several positions which allow us, according to the moment of the game and according to the blows played by our adversaries, not to lose the advantage in the point and especially to play our balls more easily.
There are several "typical" positions on the field: baseline, in front of the service line, on the fly, glued to the back window and ... the house.
This place is characterized by an imaginary square of about 1,50 meter by 1,50 meter from the service square line to the net, along the side window and start of the grid. This zone will be your place of residence when your opponents will perform a smatch. For all other moves, if you enter this zone, you are likely to lose the point.
If you play in the diagonal of a right-handed player playing on the left, his smatches will allow you to use the placement of the house. In the case of a left-handed player playing in the diagonal left (unlikely but sometimes the players swap during a point), the printed effects will not allow you to use the house.
If you play in the diagonal of a right-handed player playing on the right, the position of the house can not be considered unlike a left-handed player playing in the right diagonal.
When you know that the opponent in your diagonal will perform a smatch (if the conditions of the previous paragraph are respected), you will go directly to this zone. The waiting position will be low on the legs, slightly on the tip of the feet to be hyper-responsive, 3 / 4, looking towards the door and racket in front of you in the down position. Then…
This very effective position takes a little time to learn, especially for a right-hander to the right as he has to adapt to the game of a right-handed or a left-hander. Thanks to it you will have less apprehension during the smatching of your opponents. As much in the men of the WPT this position is gradually forgotten because the strikes are very violent and the primary intention is to bring the ball back into the court, but in the women of the WPT, I invite you to look at the positioning taken during of a smatch; and I mean a smatch, not a bandeja...
Do not hesitate, if necessary, to ask your questions.