sworn enemy of tense players, stressed and friend of cool players, fanatics of rebounds on the windows, the double pane is not a simple thing to negotiate at first sight padel. You are lucky, we help you to better understand it.

The important thing would be above all not to stress when a ball comes in the direction of the angle. We get stressed when we don't know, when we don't have control. So if you want to feel good and comfortable, agree to let it go.

The technique of the pros

This may be the technique you are taught during your first lessons. You are told that you have to move away from a ball that would be far from you and on the contrary get closer to a ball that would pass close to you. When you know, when you have the experience, when you recognize the effects and when you detect where the ball will bounce first, indeed, it works! But for novice players, this technique is more than difficult to master because it makes us ask ourselves too many questions, and in the end, we make mistakes, we get stressed, and we drop to take the volley ball: simpler.

So dear experienced players who know how to understand the majority of rebounds, can this article help you? Not sure. What could make you play better would not be to learn how to defend the double glass, something that you certainly already know how to do, but rather to know where to play and how to complicate or abort the attack of the opponents.

It's up to you to feel the difficulty of the ball but if there is no rotation and you move away from the side window, look for the lob so as not to lose position. If you find yourself close to the side window after rotation or not, try to play a bandeja. Finally if you turn to play a ball from your maison with your forehand to the center of the court, look for the backing forward after a chiquita or fast low ball.

The zero-stress technique

The goal is to gain insurance with this double pane. So the less you have to think the quieter you will be.

The situation is as follows: you see that the ball is coming towards the corner and you are going to let it pass, you are going to lock it in this corner after it enters whether it is from your left or your right. Once she is behind you, you will adopt the neutral waiting position with the pala taken with both hands in front of you, pointing the angle, knees bent, ready to react. This waiting position must always be the same, straddling the imaginary line formed by the straight line cutting the angle into two equal parts (of 45 degrees).

So far no headaches. The ball comes and you lock it in, always adopting the same position.

After that, all you have to do is wait for the bounces on the bottom panes. A bounce first on the bottom window will then come on the side, and on the contrary a ball which first touches the side window will then go on the bottom window (in the best case and without effect).

Since you're waiting for the first bounce, you're safe. Once you see the place where the ball exits, the same as for a window exit, you will come to accompany and not hit to recover your home, your comfort zone, without having taken any risks and without major mental problems.

Tell yourself that acting like this, with a zen attitude, greatly disturbs your opponents because you are able to calmly defend balls that are supposed to be difficult with good technique. For you too it is positive but it requires a minimum of practice in training. No matter your level, the work of the double pane is super important at all speeds, with all the effects, to offer a complete, precise and well-executed defense. Let's go!

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.

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