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Refining padel drop shot technique focusing on slice and motion.

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🏆 #1 Takeaway - What are the key technical elements for hitting an effective Padel drop shot?
An effective padel drop shot requires a compact, one-tempo motion emphasizing significant slice (80-90%), finishing the swing, taking the ball in front, and using body weight forward from a position closer to the net.

What Your Guru Thinks

This lesson with coach Dani and Colin is very insightful for polishing your drop shot. It's not just about hitting the ball soft; the coach explains the crucial elements like generating slice and using a compact, continuous motion. Understanding when and where on the court to use the shot effectively is also key. Pay attention to the coach's feedback on finishing the swing and using your body weight.

Improving the PADEL DROPSHOT / Inside a Real Lesson - The Padel Doctor Chap. 1

Description

In this first chapter of The Padel Doctor, we take you inside a real lesson as Colin works on improving his padel dropshot. Watch as he faces the challenge and nails it! Get a behind-the-scenes look at how a real training session goes down.

If Colin succeeds, everyone has to head over to asiapadel.com to grab some awesome T-shirts!

Thanks to SingPadel for supporting this series.

00:00 INTRO
00:30 LESSON
13:04 CHALLENGE
14:27 THANKS COLIN
Audience: High Intermediate|Advanced
Skill Level:
70%
Primary Shot: drop_shot
Play Style: Offensive
Court Position: none

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skill-high-intermediate skill-advanced style-offensive shot-drop_shot

Keywords

Drop Shot Padel Technique Slice Padel Lesson

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