Everton football club have a Padel court at their Finch Farm Training ground.
There’s considerable coverage growing around Football and Padel, such as this featuring Virgil Van Dijk https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/31/padel-racket-sport-uk-boom-jurgen-klopp-van-dijk-andy-murray so we thought we would turn to the blue side of Liverpool for a moment. Is playing Padel a physical and tactical weapon for improving the control and balance of the players at the start of the 2022/2023 season?
People increasingly know It’s fun, so much fun, and a great way to socialise but will Padel training become more than a fun outlet for the club. Lots of training time in football is presumably invested in preventing opposition from winning points and this is both technique and tactics, creating strategies to neutralise the opposition, to soak up their advances up the field and stop them from scoring and going on to win. You can be playing against a more aggressive side in football, you can have less of the ball, and you can still win if you have the discipline and conditioning to stay in the game.
The basis of managing a game of padel is very similar indeed to preventing a football side from beating you, the further up the field you are the better position you are in, and the more likely you are to see your opponent’s commit unforced errors as they are in positions where they are having to play the hardest shots under pressure – defending from the backcourts, back glass or side glass.
But there’s another thing about Padel which may be one reason why Everton have joined Liverpool and Man City amongst others ( it’s on the way at the world’s oldest professional football club Notts County as well), the footwork and turning circles on a padel court particularly around the walls don’t look too different to what a footballer might need to do to shield the ball from an opponent or create an opportunity to spin away from a defender, or find a teammate to pass to. In Padel there are lots of short movements and regular requirements to be able to turn almost 360 degrees within a few steps and be able to instantly adopt an explosive position.
Great to hear of Padel courts popping up at football clubs. Let’s hope Everton don’t get relegated after this post.
Explore the map feature to easily find Padel clubs accross the UK
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Everton football club have a Padel court at their Finch Farm Training ground.
There’s considerable coverage growing around Football and Padel, such as this featuring Virgil Van Dijk https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/31/padel-racket-sport-uk-boom-jurgen-klopp-van-dijk-andy-murray so we thought we would turn to the blue side of Liverpool for a moment. Is playing Padel a physical and tactical weapon for improving the control and balance of the players at the start of the 2022/2023 season?
People increasingly know It’s fun, so much fun, and a great way to socialise but will Padel training become more than a fun outlet for the club. Lots of training time in football is presumably invested in preventing opposition from winning points and this is both technique and tactics, creating strategies to neutralise the opposition, to soak up their advances up the field and stop them from scoring and going on to win. You can be playing against a more aggressive side in football, you can have less of the ball, and you can still win if you have the discipline and conditioning to stay in the game.
The basis of managing a game of padel is very similar indeed to preventing a football side from beating you, the further up the field you are the better position you are in, and the more likely you are to see your opponent’s commit unforced errors as they are in positions where they are having to play the hardest shots under pressure – defending from the backcourts, back glass or side glass.
But there’s another thing about Padel which may be one reason why Everton have joined Liverpool and Man City amongst others ( it’s on the way at the world’s oldest professional football club Notts County as well), the footwork and turning circles on a padel court particularly around the walls don’t look too different to what a footballer might need to do to shield the ball from an opponent or create an opportunity to spin away from a defender, or find a teammate to pass to. In Padel there are lots of short movements and regular requirements to be able to turn almost 360 degrees within a few steps and be able to instantly adopt an explosive position.
Great to hear of Padel courts popping up at football clubs. Let’s hope Everton don’t get relegated after this post.
Explore the map feature to easily find Padel clubs accross the UK
LATEST NEWS
UK Padel breaks new ground in Universities Championships
A record breaking 143 student padel players competed in thirty-seven teams in the first ever UK PADEL Universities Championships at Rocket Padel Bristol 1-2nd February “We hope that next year it can be at least double the size” says Nick Baker CEO of UK PADEL. “The...
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The Essex men’s, women’s and Mixed team showed the 217 competitors at the UK PADEL County Championships the way as they swept the board with all three titles. The biggest UK PADEL County Champs ever was spread across two venues for the first time and the level of...
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Mark Ayers, the Mod Father of major nationwide team padel events in the UK has been tapped by UK PADEL to lead a major expansion of UK PADEL Events. Mark Ayers, Doctor of Philosophy, specialist in architecture light and lighting has not been brought into UK PADEL to...
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What Is a Padel Court?
What Is a Padel Court? A Padel court sits somewhere between a tennis court and a squash court. The ground-markings are similar to those of tennis with two service boxes on each side of a tennis-like net, and another zone at the back of the court. This zone is,...
Who and what is a Bandeja?
Who or what is a Bandeja? I hear you ask… Bandeja is the Spanish translation for the word ‘tray’. I know confusing, right? Well, actually it’s not, you see in Padel terms Bandeja means a sliced volley. In Padel, a player's aim is to keep their opponent at the back of...
The Racket
The Racket Almost uniquely among racket sports, the Padel racket has no strings. Instead, the impact surface is generally made of fiberglass or carbon fiber, resting above a rubber core in a carbon or fiberglass frame. But, as with most sport equipment, there is quite...
The Ball – What’s the difference between Tennis balls and Padel balls
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