Episodes

  • E006 — Padel Coaches Finally Have a Validated Training Roadmap

    E006 — Padel Coaches Finally Have a Validated Training Roadmap
    Sep 20 2026
    Padel finally has an expert-validated map of which technical-tactical objectives belong at which stage of development — but a validated map tells you coaches agree, not that the map makes players better, and it is drawn for a player who started as a child rather than one who arrived with another sport's reflexes already installed.
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    16 mins
  • E005 — Pro Padel Finishing Shots: Patterns Across 5,500 Points

    E005 — Pro Padel Finishing Shots: Patterns Across 5,500 Points
    Sep 14 2026
    Professional points break down in their opening five shots, but the club-level fix is positional rather than temperamental: what looks like patience from the outside is nearly always a player who has already arrived.
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    15 mins
  • E004 — Spain's Padel Growth: Mapping a 15-Year Demographic Surge

    E004 — Spain's Padel Growth: Mapping a 15-Year Demographic Surge
    Sep 11 2026
    Spain's padel surge did not just make the sport bigger — it made its centre adult and substantially female, which means the standard club session is built for a player who is no longer standard, and the sharpest place that shows up is who moves when the lob goes up.
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    14 mins
  • E003 — Gender Gaps in Pro Padel: What 28 Matches Revealed

    E003 — Gender Gaps in Pro Padel: What 28 Matches Revealed
    Sep 4 2026
    A study of professional matches found women play more shots and more lobs per point and work harder relative to their recovery — but the usable lesson for a club coach is not to coach women differently, it is to stop teaching the lob as an emergency exit and start counting what the players in front of you actually do.
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    17 mins
  • E002 — Padel Performance: Unpacking Anxiety's Impact on Your Game

    E002 — Padel Performance: Unpacking Anxiety's Impact on Your Game
    Aug 13 2026
    This study shows anxiety and padel performance moving together without telling anyone which came first — and the coach's whole session turns on whether you read that as 'teach them to attack' or 'teach them to survive the miss'.
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    15 mins
  • E001 — Ball Impact Position: The Metric That Defines Padel Skill

    E001 — Ball Impact Position: The Metric That Defines Padel Skill
    Aug 9 2026
    The clearest measurable gap between a trained club padel player and a novice is not swing speed but where the ball meets the racket relative to the hips — behind them when attacking, in front of them when defending — which makes contact position the rare technical marker a coach can see across a court without any equipment at all.
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    16 mins
  • E000 — Why this show exists

    E000 — Why this show exists
    Aug 9 2026
    Padel is drowning in confident advice and nobody is checking any of it. Why a show that opens the paper exists at all.
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    5 mins