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Pro player shares tips for powerful padel smash.

🏆 Your #1 Takeaway

How can I improve the power and effectiveness of my padel smash?

Focus on building a strong base with your legs, loading your body weight, hitting with a high contact point, using wrist snap, and rotating your body after impact to generate more power and aim for a high bounce on the back glass.

What Your Guru Thinks

This covers some great points if you want to add more power to your overheads. The coach shares his personal approach, focusing on using your legs and body rotation effectively. There is also good advice on wrist snap and aiming for a high bounce. It gives you clear elements to think about when working on your smash technique.

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Added on: May 13, 2024
PRO PADEL PLAYER shows me his best TIPS for a HUGE SMASH

Description

Hi Padeldrivers! In today's video we have with us our friend Louie Harris, a pro padel player, ranked Top1 in the UK, 501 in FIP (Premier Padel) and 414 in World Padel Tour (WPT). Louie has shared with us his best padel tips and secrets to have a huge smash and win more games. Let us know in the comments which was the piece of advice that you liked the most! For me it was the one covering the follow-through!

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Audience: Lower Intermediate|High Intermediate
Skill Level:
62%
Primary Shot: Smash
Play Style: Offensive
Court Position: None

Tags

skill-lower-intermediate skill-high-intermediate style-offensive

Keywords

Smash Technique Power Overhead Padel Tips

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