Taking the first steps in any sport activity involves knowing the rules of the sport, the technique and having an adequate physical background. From the Padel's Blog Our They will give us a series of basic tips to start practicing this sport knowing their 'secrets'.
Padel World Press .- For all those who begin to practice paddle tennis, the most advisable thing would be to have the help of a professional who explains what are the basic rules, the blows and necessary techniques as well as the philosophy of this wonderful sport.
And one of those 'basic questions' that must be taken into account when playing this discipline is knowing how to choose where to direct our shots.
It is very likely that on some occasion you have had a rival in front of you who, at the time of the warm-up rally, has shown few technical qualities and, therefore, has made you think that it would be easy to beat him ... However, in When the match starts, his game changes and although his 'style' is not very showy, his blows do a lot of damage ...
With this we do not mean that technique is not important, far from it ... What we want to reflect is that, with the same technique, the player who knows where to make his shots will always get better results.
One of the key points in this regard, and which will be one of the first things that a monitor will say, is that on paddle tennis, in most cases you must play 'crossed' ... This means that, if we occupy the drive position, we will play a large part of our shots towards the opposing pair's drive player. On the contrary, if we place ourselves on the backhand, we will direct the ball towards the backhand player of our rivals.
And all this has a 'why'… What we must understand and internalize to get the most out of our blows.
Let's think first of what happens when we are in a defensive position at the back of the court ... If we defend ourselves with crossed punches, when the ball passes over the net, it will do it right between the opposing pair, with what we will do doubt the rival. On the other hand, if it is a balloon, since the track is diagonally longer, there will be less chance of the ball going to the glass and also, after the boat, it will most likely bounce on a double wall, so that the return by the rival will be more complicated.
From the position of attack on the net, the advantage of cross play is found in that the rivals will have to return the double-walled ball, with the complication that this entails and, just like when we defend ourselves, the diagonal track is more long that in parallel, with what we will have more margin to avoid the error.
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