Improve Your Padel In 24 HOURS!

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00:00If you want to see improvements quickly on the court and don't want to spend hours practicing

00:03technique, then this video is for you. Here are six killer paddle tips and you can improve in

00:09under 24 hours. Let's go. So the first of the killer tips is all about defending in this corner.

00:15I know it is an absolute nightmare when it comes to trying to take it off the sidewall or do a

00:20turn. The hardest part is knowing if it's going to hit the sidewall and the back wall or if it's

00:26going to hit the back wall and then the sidewall. So how could we tell which wall it's going to hit?

00:31It's all down to this tip about positioning. If you stand around here and block the corner,

00:37I will now know that any ball that comes to the left of my foot here is going to hit this sidewall

00:44first. So then I'll know it's going to hit the sidewall and then I can do a turn. And then I

00:49know that if it's going to hit at me here or to the right, it's going to hit this back wall and I can

00:55turn the other way. So I saw on that one that because it was coming at me here, I know it's

01:01not going to hit that sidewall and I know to turn the other way.

01:13That will help you massively. Tip number two is to play percentage. If you play percentage in paddle,

01:19you're going to be way more consistent. You're going to make a lot less mistakes and you're going

01:22to be much harder to beat. What shot should we play in order to play percentage? Well, we should

01:27do lots of lobbing because that's a very easy shot that even if you're playing against the top, top

01:32players, if you get a good lobbing, they'll always have to move to the back of the court and you can

01:36take advantage and push the net. The next thing is to play down the middle so much. The middle is so

01:41low risk because one, if you mess it up and maybe it goes a bit to the left, a bit to the right,

01:46it's still very likely to end up in the court. A lot of the time, your opponents won't know whose ball

01:50it is as well. If the ball's always going down the middle, they might mess up and both go for it or

01:54both not go for it. You're going to win a lot more games because you're going to be so much more

01:58consistent. Tip number three is all about how you use the warm-up. A lot of people, when they start a

02:04paddle game, vaguely do ground strokes from the back of the court. Then they go to the net and do

02:09a few volleys and a few overheads. A lot of the time, it looks like they're focusing more on just being

02:14able to hit the ball back than actually warming up their shots. The warm-up is crucial. It gives you an

02:19opportunity to basically try all of the shots that you've been practicing and learning and get a free

02:24chance at them. The key shots that I personally think are crucial are volleys and overheads.

02:30For me, when I play in a tournament, I don't even bother really warming up my ground strokes from the

02:34back of the court. I just go straight to the net position and try and get as many forehand, backhand

02:39volleys and overheads as possible. Then when my opponent wants volleys and overheads, I move to the

02:46back of the court and then I get to practice my ground strokes then. But I wouldn't waste any time

02:49doing ground strokes from the back of the court because the most important shots are the volleys

02:53and the slightly higher balls and the overheads. Tip number four is to use the split step. I watch

02:59so many players playing paddle and they just stand with their racket down like this and then when the

03:05ball comes to them, they're so late to react. If you do this, which is called the split step,

03:10scientifically proven that you will move faster. It's the same phrase as just being on your toes,

03:15always bouncing and then when the ball comes, you do a little bounce and you'll be much faster to

03:19react and get in your position quickly. If you watch any pro player play or any top players,

03:24they're literally always bouncing and every time someone hits the ball, they'll do a bounce that

03:29they're really fast to react. I guarantee you if you spend the entire match just focusing on being

03:33on your toes and staying awake, you'll notice a huge change in how fast you are to react to every

03:38single ball. Tip number five is to lob a lot more. Now I touched on it a little bit earlier. I don't mean

03:43to lob every single point. Maybe half the time when you're defending from back here,

03:47the shot should be a lob, especially if that ball comes off the wall. If a ball comes off the wall

03:51like this, you've got to lob that ball every single time. It's an easy ball. Too many players get caught

03:56up in the ground stroke battle, trying to play to people's volleys and they end up running around

04:01here and getting tired. The lob gives you so much time to prepare for the next ball and it gets you out

04:06of trouble a lot of the time. The main goal from being in this defensive spot is how to get to the net

04:11position. It's not to try and win the point from here. It's not to try and play a really good

04:15ground stroke past the opponent. It's to get the net position and the lob is the easiest way to get

04:20that net. So you should do it a lot more. Tip number six is to soften your shots. Now I don't mean to

04:25play every single shot soft, but there needs to be a mix up. Some shots you play slow, some shots you

04:30play fast. Hit the ball as hard as you possibly can and then half that. Medium pace, 50%, 60% of what

04:43you can do. If you're playing hard all the time, yeah, it might work at beginner level, early

04:47intermediate. As soon as you go to an advanced level, they'll kill you if you're constantly

04:52playing the ball hard on time. If you're too focused on the smash and the aggressive shots,

04:56better players will beat you. The benefits of playing soft is that you'll be more consistent

05:01because you've got less risk of missing. It's a lot easier to play the ball where you want it

05:05when you play it slow. If I want to go down the middle and then I want to go corner. Softer shots

05:10a lot of the time will actually throw your opponent off and are a lot harder to defend. It will keep

05:14your opponents at the back of the court. A little bonus tip here, if you're struggling to choose a

05:18paddle racket, then you can contact me personally on WhatsApp. Just drop me a text on WhatsApp and I'll give

05:23you some advice of what paddle racket to choose. Also check out everything Paddle, my online

05:26paddle store. Nearly every single paddle racket on that store has a full video review of me reviewing it.

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