Today, he is one of the emblematic figures of padel Lyonnais we interview: Pierre Gadras. In April 2017, during the tournament padel (Henry Leconte Padel Tour) at the Lou Tennis Club in Lyon, the “Yoann Gourcuff of padel”Is seriously injured. Appraisal: Operation and more sports for a long time.

The co-founders of “padel for dummies ”gives us some keys to avoid us“the same galleys”And finally gives us his opinion on the evolution of padel in France.

Pierre Gadras, the return?

I hoped so… I returned to competition after more than 22 months of struggle. I took my foot while replaying. But the rupture of the anterior ligament of the left knee and the fissure of the internal meniscus are far from easy to cure. Unfortunately it was released in March 2018 while playing football with the same breakup. For the moment no operation in 2019, we are crossing our fingers.

Sensitive soul, do not watch this video.

You have become despite yourself a specialist of the human body.

You can call me the Yoann Gourcuff or the Abou Diaby of Padel. It is certain that the quadriceps, hamstrings, patellar tendon, meniscus, kneecap etc. I have become unbeatable. Before the first injury, you could call me Bison Sharpened but believe me that with more than 17 kilos gained after 8 months, I was a family of bison all to myself. Then I also have a thought for Sandy (Editor's note. We will soon focus on Sandy Godard) who had made the ligaments to Padel Central Lyon or Thibaut Perreon in Cap d'Agde, fortunately we have become a small family because of that.

Do you have a specific preparation to avoid relapse?

When you kneel (amateur level that we are obviously), usually you wait between 7 and 10 weeks to wait for the knee to become "dry" and become operable.

Behind, it is 2 to 4 weeks of pain and you start to walk without crutches after 5/6 weeks limping a little. The most surprising thing is perhaps the muscle mass that you never even suspected was melting. Before in jeans I took size 44, with two operations I went to 40…

The resumption of the race is done 3 or 4 postoperative month but you learn to run again, you run at the beginning only ten times a minute with a minute of walking between each session, so you have the impression to have 100 years .

And after you have re-training until it's better and your physiotherapist or physical trainer thinks you're ready to start your sport again (a big thank you to Quentin Giacomazzo, a gold fitness trainer in Lyon).

To give you my example, I went since my second operation 79 times in 9 months at my center of the Kiné of Sport in Lyon. I saw more my physiotherapist (Thomas Chamu than I recommend) than my girlfriend or my family. You have to be strong mentally, it changes you and it becomes a real psychological fight not to let go.

Exercises to perform?

I'm going to push open doors and that will make some laugh but warm up well before a match, avoid going out before a tournament, pay attention to your diet. You can feel it when you have 5 to 10 kg too much. And the joints take.

I recommend some exercises to protect his knee:

  • The proprioception ball, super important which allows you to build up all the muscles around the knee and it works the balance;
  • Make controlled jumps always forward, lunges, squats etc.
  • Work on movements, accelerations etc.

I do not touch any commission on it (laugh), but I think Claire's book "Functional Bodybuilding for All" could help a lot of people.

With Thibaut Perreon, you did not remain inactive in the padel ... With in particular the creation of this fb page which is all the rage: The Padel For Dummies.

This is a co-creation of this facebook page with my friend Thibaut Perreon (Setteo France Manager). We had this idea at the start because it amused us to see guys making thank-you posts for a 17rd place on a P250. Obviously, we had to do something…

Thibaut made some exceptional shots with the France team in particular.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1741501675962298&id=1382752865170516

it even made people laugh in high places. We were a little surprised to see such a success in such a short time, we went from 15 people to almost a thousand. We will have to prepare a big publication for this course there and in my opinion, Franck, you can be one of our next victims.

You who live in one of the lungs of the padel French, do you see the difference in the padel enter before your injury and now.

I can already thank some people who have been loves and who regularly took news like Serge (Reisinger), Romain (Old man), Thibault (Perreon), Jean-Yves (Levrat), David (Miotto), Alix (Colllombon) , Jean-Christophe (Kimmerlé), Max (Moreau) or you Franck and I forget about it.

 

It is true that over the last two years, I have been able to have this objective point of view on padel and there are some good and some not so good in my opinion.

The positive is the creation for example of the Spirit complex Padel by Seb Cornet who made a monstrous complex. The fact also that the average level has increased and intensified in quality but also in quantity.

But the negative is that there is a monstrous chasm between the top of the basket and the average level, you know almost certainly who you will find in eighths or quarters.

The sometimes a little too "unhealthy" atmosphere that comes from tennis, and I know what I'm talking about, I've been playing it for over 20 years, hoping that it doesn't spoil the atmosphere too much. Padel.

I also wonder about the development of Padel, I want to be wrong but I'm not sure some people really want it to develop to its potential, so as not to overshadow another yellow ball so I wait to see but we come to a point where the Padel is a turning point in France, we will see what path it takes.

In Padel for Dummies, we are sometimes at the 5th degree and even beyond. Is there any truth to it?

In any case, we never do publications to be mean or hurt. Our goal is really to have fun of a situation, a reputation, a specific moment or anything but never with a bad background. Sometimes Thibaut and I can go very far when we made videos, and besides I think they will return soon for spring.

After yes you can bring out some truths, there are messages hidden in certain publications but we are not either on messages which will destroy a reputation or a state.

Our goal is more modestly to promote the padel by our humor than by our bandeja which forms a glass medium.

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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