Sandy FarquharsonFounder at The Padel School | Elevating Padel Players' Performance

Want better volleys instantly? Start here 👇🎾

30 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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In this short instructional clip, three speakers discuss how to improve paddle/tennis volleys. Speaker A emphasizes the fundamental ready position—keeping the racket above the hand and preparing to strike down on the ball—as a quick win for intermediate players. Speaker B explains the next level of volley development: adding slice to keep the ball’s rebound low and improve accuracy, describing a "setup volley" that stays low after hitting the glass. Speaker C addresses the common player uncertainty about training focus and introduces thepaddleschool.com, a community platform that offers personalized roadmaps to guide players through the right drills and progression steps. The segment ends with a call‑to‑action to visit the website for more information.

I think immediately is this, this position here with the volley, like ready position here, keeping the racket above the hand so that we can come down the ball. I think if intermediate players do this, immediately their volleys will be better.
As you go up the levels from intermediate to advanced, it's accuracy of the volleys, but it's also the ability to put slice on and keep the rebound low at the other end. And so what we're working on here with this group is to work on that, what we call like a setup volley, but a volley with slice so that when it hits the ground, hits the glass, it stays low and it can set them up. So I think that's probably the difference between the volley quality of intermediate to advanced level.
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 thepaddleschool.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.