Coach Sandy Farquharson teaches a 5.0 padel player how to finish points with the volley. Keep your racket head up, use a push-brush motion for spin, and focus on spin before power. Small adjustments to racket angle and timing make a huge difference.
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If you want to finish more points, the volley is the way to go. Hit a low setup, keeping it low over the ground. We're going to work on the volley with a 5.0 Playtomic level female player here in the US at this beautiful Paddle 9 club. Forget holding your head and distance from ball and all the other advice for now. Like, I'm coaching you in the moment. Okay. Right, they've coached you like in other sessions from what they've seen. Let's just— we're doing the now. Okay. So, so keep that racket head up. You're gonna turn, keep doing what you're doing with your feet, that's working really well. And all we're gonna go through is here and push, like push to brush down that ball. Push, spin, remember, remember spin first. Like, like we're increasing explosivity, but explosivity on the, on the spin. Good! That one. Like those last 2, For me, you hit that point in the spectrum perfectly. She hasn't had loads of lessons, so it's quite easy to make a change. Right, right. No, it's very subtle with me, I know it is, but it makes a huge difference.