I’ll go first….. so I should say I don’t play here very often, (when you see the price you can probably understand why.) This is my closest club, probably about five minutes away yet I find myself driving atleast an hour in the opposite direction to go to a more reasonably priced club.

Because the weather where I am is starting to cool a little bit, it’s looking like courts I usually play at are starting to get booked up a lot. So I was looking for an alternate venue. It’s obviously not gonna be this place.

Edit for context : this is Los Angeles, California. There’s only two clubs within 100 miles, and this is 1 of them.

Watching the Milano P1 QF today and the first guy to commentate on the Triay/Brea and Ustero/Sanchez matches was terrible. He just exhaled into the mic a lot and said things of absolutely no use like “wow you don’t really wanna be broken in the first game” and “nice that shot was too good!”. Absolutely no value or knowledge of padel exhibited.

On the other hand the current woman commenting on the Tapia/Coello matches is incredible! She sounds ?English but her Spanish is great and she brings a lot of padel terms and explains the shots and strategy. I like her and the Spanish guy too, he talks a lot about building up the rally which as a beginner I don’t have a lot of insight into and appreciate.

I've been playing padel around Amsterdam for a while now, and I'd say I'm somewhere between beginner and intermediate. Good enough to have some decent rallies, but still bad enough to embarrass myself at least once every few games.

The other day, I went for what I thought was going to be a pretty easy shot and completely missed the ball. Not even a difficult smash or anything spectacular, just a normal ball that somehow went straight past my racket. Of course, my mates made sure I heard about it for the rest of the match. I'm still feeling it in my shoulder 😂

It's one of those sports where you can feel like a pro for five minutes and then immediately look like you've never held a racket before.

What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you on a padel court? Please tell me I'm not the only one with stories like this.

Do you prefer senior padel or the modern style of padel? 🎾