A bandeja down the middle forces you far across court and leaves gaps, while a cross-court shot lets you recover in two steps with better coverage. Shot direction matters less than where you end up next.
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In this position, if I receive a bandeja through this middle, if I play the ball over here, what I've— my recovery position from here, if I want to then recover that next shot, I have to move all the way over here, right? So from there all the way over here, and I've left a big gap. If Sandy takes that early, he could expose that gap, whereas if I play the ball cross-court, yeah, My recovery position, I'm in position here, yeah, so it's like 2 steps. So whenever it's about direction, it's always about what happens after, after the shot. As a player, it's sometimes challenging to know, am I doing the right thing? Am I taking my game to that next level? Am I training the right aspects of my game? And that's exactly why we created thepadelschool.com. On there, our community of players across the world have a roadmap specific to them and their game so they know that they're transforming their game in the right way. Head to thepaddleschool.com or the link in bio to learn more.