German Jerez Lopez, the technical director of Padel Stuff, is one of the great figures in the teaching of padel in Europe. He returns to current topics between tennis and padel, but also gives us some tips to get started in the padel.

  • Tennis and Padel, same fight ?

First of all, we must not forget that tennis and padel are completely different sports.

It is true that they are similar when it comes to assimilating certain psychomotor skills with an instrument in hand, such as movement or eye-hand coordination.

But the concepts that we attribute to each sport are technically very different.

When it comes to transmitting, advising, motivating or communicating, it depends on each professional teacher but, in our case, it is the fundamental basis for student learning and pleasure.

The biggest difference between one sport and another is based on the times of assimilation or mechanization of the technique and the processes of the levels until reaching the real game.

  • Tennis or padel For the young ?

I encourage young people to play one of the 2 sports because they are fabulous in every way. If they choose the padel, the first thing I would pass on to them would be the idea of ​​PATIENCE. In all sports, it is an added value and a virtue for athletes. But it is true that padel, it acquires great importance, even more for young people.

In tennis, any shot can be a winner; in padel, there is only one winning move and it is the most difficult to execute.

Young people (and also the not so young) want to win the point as soon as possible and always play very hard and fast, but in the padel this is not the most correct and advantageous thing for our game. Hence the notion of patience ...

  • Training adapted to padel

Unlike other countries, Spain has a great culture of padel. This is normal, the padel is in its history, in its DNA. But things are moving very quickly!

What usually happens in some countries is that tennis education professionals are encouraged to teach tennis. padel without even basic sports training. The result is usually "that a tennis course is taught on a tennis court. padel».

Our advice is always the same: you have to understand that the padel is a sport with other technical and tactical approaches and with other notions ...

Padel Stuff performs various trainings. And our trainees are often amazed by the difference there can be between tennis and padel.

  • Padel Stuff and a rewarding diploma

Padel Stuff is a company of events, training and stays of padel, which has been in the market for 8 years and provides these services throughout Spain.

We record all the diplomas of students who pass the different stages and exams that take place during our training.

We have qualified instructors throughout the Spanish national territory.

On the other hand, we offer a series of services to reach all audiences and all levels of education. For example, several WPT players follow our training by taking the professional trainer or instructor course.

  • Padel Stuff : a team / an organization

I will start with the team that runs the company, because they are the ones who put all the enthusiasm, perseverance, professionalism that we apply and transmit in everything that we do Padel Stuff :

  • Inaki Loredo, CEO
  • Laura Boluda, CMO

We are neither worse nor better but different from other organizations and companies. The players support us enormously.

The value of perseverance, enthusiasm ... are some of the values ​​that we cherish.

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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.

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