For two years, the teachers of padel are currently tennis teachers. This information was confirmed to us by Jean, who aims to develop courses for all ages in the center where he is employed. This center had tried to offer courses almost two years ago now, except that it had not worked: “ we did it the first time, there were 7 or 8 people, we did it a second time, there were 4 or 5 people, a third time, there were two of them ”.

There are also reasons that have been described to us by Jean and Brice. First, there is too little demand from the public.

Then the profitability was too low: “ the first is profitability. Uh, you realize that in the long term, by having a tennis teacher as a coach, you are not going to make any profit from your lessons, unless you have 12 people each time ... We paid 100 euros for two hours on the structure "[1]. And finally there was the difficulty of proposing something effective depending on the level of play " and compared to the level, there is a guy who already knew how to play, he had been playing for two years, he wanted to improve himself, you have 3 who had never touched a racket in their life ”.

Jean therefore took the initiative to undergo training padel, the only one in force and currently recognized by the FFT. This training consists of two parts of 14 hours of training. For the moment, any person having this training can declare himself a "teacher" of padel.

In our questionnaire survey for tennis teachers, only 3 out of 63, or 4,8% of the overall sample, teach tennis. padel, and only 56,7% of the other 60 have ever thought of teaching it. Thus, 41,3% of the total sample do not teach and have never thought of teaching.

We then wanted to know if these teachers would like to obtain diplomas, knowing that 57,8% of the global sample had already thought of teaching the padel or already teach it.

We then wanted to know if they would like to obtain diplomas:

Here are the results we found, with 56,4% of the overall sample who would like to earn degrees to teach padel. We wanted to compare with Xavier Dumortier's survey in 2016. The latter had received roughly the same number of responses (67) as us this year (63). It was, in addition to that, the same database, because Xavier Dumortier sent it to us. So this is roughly the same sample, knowing that the average age of her sample was 41 years old, and knowing that ours is 42, she should have been 43 if it was from exactly the same population, as his survey dates from two years ago. But in any case, this is a good point of comparison, two years apart.

We can then observe, when we asked our sample if he wanted to obtain diplomas to teach padel (graphs above), that the results of the two surveys come closer, with a slight increase over the past two years, as we have gone from 53,7% of people wanting to obtain a degree to 56,4%. This increase is very small, and it is therefore not sufficiently significant to say that more teachers are now willing to graduate in the padel. In any case Dumortier had shown that the younger the teachers, the more likely they were to obtain diplomas, and that full-time teachers in a club were more inclined to wish to obtain a diploma.

[1] Page 100: interview with Brice and Jean

Pierre Lemonnier

Pierre studied STAPS, and validated a master's degree in sports management, after studying in Reims, Frankfurt and Lille. I discovered the padel in 2014 during my Erasmus year in Frankfurt thanks to a Spanish friend. Damn it is good padel !

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