Guides to playing, scoring and understanding padel
Ten articles about the parts of padel that are easy to play and hard to explain: how the scoring actually works, which numbers are worth keeping, what the game does to your heart rate, and how to look back at a match and learn something from it.
What to Look For in an Apple Watch Padel App
Six things worth checking before you install anything: where the scoring happens, what the app does when the signal drops, and where your matches end up.
How to Keep Score in Padel on an Apple Watch
Points, games, sets and the golden point — and then the part nobody explains: how to keep all of it from your wrist without stopping the game.
How to Track Your Padel Performance
The score tells you who won. Tracking is what tells you why, and what to do differently on Thursday.
What to Track in a Padel Match
Serve patterns, winners against errors, momentum and what your body was doing: four things worth recording, and what each one is good for.
Heart Rate Training for Padel
Padel is interval training pretending to be a game. Here is what that does to your heart rate, and how to read the numbers afterwards.
How to Analyse a Padel Match
A repeatable twenty-minute method for turning a finished scoreline back into the story of how it happened.
Padel Statistics Explained
Winners, forced and unforced errors, break points, golden points: what each number counts, and what it quietly leaves out.
How to Improve Your Padel Positioning
Where to stand, when to move up, how to switch sides without leaving a hole, and what the back glass does to the shape of a point.
Americano vs Mexicano: Two Padel Formats
Two ways to run a social session with rotating partners, and how their rotations, their scoring and their mood differ.
How to Record Padel Highlights
The propped-phone method, why filming by hand never works, and how to finish the session with clips worth sending.