The French Tennis Federation has been offering training courses since last year padel for players with the Tennis State Certificate. Training courses which are mainly intended to initiate BE for the moment.

Today, the trainers are Arnaud Taboni and Patrick Fouquet, therefore in charge of initiating tennis teachers. They unveil their objectives around this training padel.

"A training of trainers"

“We are the league trainers. We are in a way the trainers of trainers since it is a training to allow tennis teachers to discover and have skills to be able in turn to transmit »Explain these two figures of padel French.

Remember that this is a continuous training, not compulsory, and which is intended for the moment only to teachers of padel.

 “Two weeks ago we carried out the first training of league trainers. Each league sent at least one trainer to then preach good talk in the leagues. "

The training usually lasts a weekend. Trainers are well aware that it does not really allow you to go beyond "The simple initiation, but it allows you to then preach the good word ».

"Building an educational framework"

« We have the project with the FFT and the head of training Jean French Blanco, to build a pedagogical framework with tutorials mainly based on video. »

"During the next training dates in the Lyonnais league, we will set up a training program padel. It will be in place for the start of the school year at the latest. We aim to be ready by May ”.

“These are 25 hours of training for BEs. "

Limited to BE?

“We are trying to get the message across so that this training is not limited to BE. "

« The CQPAMT will allow many to become more or less legal with a diploma that will include the possibility of teaching padel ". (See interview with Jean Wallach)

"25h is enough to see what the padel. The training allows you to see above all the limits. "

Arnaud Taboni and Patrick Fouquet, however, agree that this training can not go very far and that it is more " to initiate And not improve " students. For the majority of these BEs, it is even totally new ».

Interview by Franck Binisti

[box type = ”note”] For more information on the training padel, find the interview of Jean Wallach, Vice-President of the FFT in charge of training padel :

“The teachers of padel will have their training ”

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Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.