Back glass rebounds
Ready when: Bounce about and ladder rallies (b1) started.
What you are learning
The special padel skill: letting the ball bounce on the floor and come off the wall, waiting for it, and returning it softly. Players who wait for the glass have more time and make fewer mistakes.
Words on this card Glass, Rally
- Glass
- The glass walls behind and beside each pair; the back glass is behind you.
- Rally
- Shots going back and forth until the point ends.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Stand two big steps in front of the wall, facing away from it.
- Drop the ball so it bounces and rolls back off the wall toward you.
- Turn sideways, wait for it to come off the wall, and hit it softly forward.
Your part while they practise
Feed softly in front of the wall.
Step by step
- The ball bounces off the floor and then the wall.
- Wait for it and return it softly.
- First off one wall, then off a corner (two walls).
- Solo back-glass rally.
How much: 3 rounds of 10 feeds 10 min a session 3 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Rebound count
Count returns off the wall in a row.
Who plays: the child against their own best, or two children taking turns.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- You feed the ball to bounce and come off the wall
- The child returns it softly to you after it comes off
- Count the clean returns in a row
- 3 tries; keep the best
- Fair play
- A grown-up returns with the backhand only.
- Points
- 1 point for each clean return in a row.
- Fouls
- The count stops
- Hitting the ball before it comes off the wall
- Letting it bounce twice
- Standing so close the ball hits you
- Winning
- Beat your best count.
- 3 points for 1 star
- 6 points for 2 stars
- 10 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
A slower feed.
A rally off two walls.
What you will see, and what to say
- the child hits too early
Let the ball come off the glass
Wait for it. - they stand too close
Give the ball room
Two steps from the wall.
Self-check
6 returns off the back wall in a row.
Stop and get a coach when
The ball hits the face; use a softer ball.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains reading the rebound.
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