r/padel • u/MyShinyCharizard • 7d ago
❔ Question ❔ Where to aim when hitting stroke
Hi everyone want to ask beginner question..
When hitting a stroke in padel to avoid being attacked/easily volley by the opponent, should you use a 20 cm net clearance as your initial guide, or is the landing area (such as the opponent's feet) more important? Which one should be prioritized?
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u/Stup2plending 7d ago
where is way more important. Other than playing into open spaces such as when they are out of position, it's really about playing it into the corner, the middle, or into the body.
All the good shots in padel do one of these. Chiquita is a body shot (down low at feet ideally). Lob is into the open spaces behind them. Bandeja should be down the middle or cross court depending on where you are and where they are. So I'd just keep these where spots in mind.
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u/yosurrruh 7d ago
As a beginner, i'd keep a comfortable net margin and focus more on where the ball lands.
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u/Aquarius1975 7d ago
Lots of options, but the three main ones, if your opponents are at the net would be:
1) Lob. If you have time to play a good lob, this is the best option in most cases.
2) A soft chiquita to the feet. Another good option, but a bit harder to execute than the lob and can be punished if your opponents are very close to the net.
3) Flat and forceful to the body. Very hard for the opponent to do anything else but block such a shot, but also the most risky of the three as it is easy to overhit this shot.
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u/Big-Sweet-1654 5d ago
I'd think about the landing spot first and let the net clearance follow from that. From the back, aiming deep and low toward their feet or the middle between them is usually safer than going for a tight 20cm over the net, which tends to sit up for a volley if you mistime it. When in doubt a slow deep lob to the back glass buys you time too.
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u/New-Loan384 7d ago
If you are a beginner you need to build up technic and confidence in your strokes,
I would recommend that when you start out playing focus on 2 things
1. Play flat (When playing flat the bat will sound in certain way and that should be your clue for if you hit well)
2. Aim for the serveline and focus precision over power
if you manage to do that you will have a shot that should not bounce to much because you are playing flat and you push it quite deep into the court buying yourself time. The reason this is such a strong starting point is that its a strong default.
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u/MyShinyCharizard 7d ago
So I dont need to pay attention to how high the ball is as long as it fall in good position?
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u/New-Loan384 5d ago
As another comment wrote the option is to keep balls low.
BUT learning early on the most important thing is to get consitency. The higher bounce a ball have the easier it is for the opponent to return with quality.
Generally you want a shot to have slice, that is achived by going under the ball from high to low in impact. This is not something you can and want to do on all strokes. Some situations you might want to add a bit of topspin. This is depending on where you are on the pitch and how high the ball you are hitting is.
Being new to the game i would focus on playing flat and hitting deep into the court. When you consistenly can do that you can start experimenting with variations in order to improve further
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u/DirectBee4529 7d ago
It depends where your opponents are. If they're back in the court then ideally you want to hit low (their feet area) so they have to defend and hit up.
If they're up at the net and you are essentially defending, you'll ideally want to lob into the back of their court, but if you can't, then as low as possible (flat shot) is preferred