Cork Padel Light III Review

The Cork Padel Light III is a balanced padel racket with the right amount of power, control, comfort, handling, and durability.

This cork padel racket is recommended for beginners and advanced players whose physical structure does not allow excessive weights.

This padel racket stands out for its improved comfort and mobility due to its lower balance and reduced weight.

Read on to see if this is the padel racket you need!

Babolat Air Viper Review

The Babolat Air Viper is a stand-out Padel racket thanks to its light weight, hybrid shape, and unique Holes Pattern System that allow its users to generate power and force during their games.

The Babolat Air Viper padel racquet is great for users looking to increase their power transmission with a padel racket that complements their offensive play style.

The Babolat Air Viper is a marvel from a technological standpoint with its’ X-EVA rubber build.

Adidas Adipower CTRL Review

The new Adidas Adipower CTRL 3.1 is one of the best all-around rackets. It’s all about maximizing control. Endorsed by professional player Alex Ruiz, a left-handed player who plays right side.

This really is a racket made for high-level players who want to exert their maximum power but also keep their control during difficult strokes.

With Spin Blade mold technology and a solid core structure, the racket can handle rough situations thanks to its durable composition.

Adidas Adipower Review (Seba Nerone)

A padel racket like the Adidas Adipower 3.1 is an elite choice of equipment as it’s specially designed by Seba Nerone (link in Spanish), a retired five-time former world number 1 padel player.

The Adidas Adipower 3.1 is a good padel racket with Spin Blade, Smart Holes Curve, and Dual Exoskeleton technologies, responsible for greater rigidity, maximum comfort, and power.

However, as good as it is for offense, it may be less potent in defense. Yet, it’s not a big deal since the Adipower 3.1 padel racket is for advanced and expert players.

As you read through our review of the Adidas Adipower 3.1 racquet, you’ll learn more about this model, its features, composition, and our first impressions! 

Head Zephyr Review

The Head Zephyr is designed for intermediate players who want a powerful but lightweight racquet for top performance in the game.

Its technology gives durability to the padel racket to deliver strong hits while remaining flexible.

Players can perform at their best level and let their games flow with Zephyr racket’s optimized shape and balance.

StarVie Metheora Warrior Review

Starvie Metheora Warrior is a padel racket made for advanced players who want the “complete racket” with the best control and power.

See also our best StarVie padel rackets guide.

This padel racket comes with the new Star Balance System that gives the perfect balance and stability for maximum playing performance.

StarVie’s premium model comes with Matias “The Warrior” Diaz’s signature and logo at the bottom of the racket.

Read on for a complete test and review!

How do you change a Padel Grip? (Quick Tutorial)

Funnily enough, many padel players are beasts on the court with excellent skills and backhand serves — but they don’t know how to change padel overgrips.

It’s understandable, really. Because, in many cases, padel players don’t do it themselves. Or worse, they rarely replace them.

The use of grip sprays and gels is also becoming more common. We recommend the 4on totalgrip spray, it’s an incredible product.

Let’s change that today. You’ll start changing padel overgrips by yourself in no time and see the value of what a fresh padel grip can give you on the court!

Highlights from the Global Padel Report (2022)

A few weeks ago, Playtomic and Deloitte (Monitor Deloitte) released a massive 115 pages report labelled Global Padel Report. The report, focuses on the growth of the sport from both a leisure and professional perspective and shows a lot of interesting points.

In the introduction of the report, Martita Ortega and Fernando “Bela” Balasteguin speaks about how they got started with playing padel. Even though the report is labelled as global, the US is hardly mentioned, probably because of its relative growth to pickleball in the US.

In this article, we’ll give you the most important highlights from the report.

Padel is coming to New York!

Looking for padel courts in NY?

Read our updated guide: Where to Play Padel in New York — 18 clubs and 52 courts across NYC and the Hamptons, with ratings, contacts, hours, and amenities for every venue.

Where to play Padel in NY, US?

Restaurateur Santiago Gomez, co-founder of restaurants Cosme and ATLA signs lease of warehouse in South Williamsburg to create Padel Haus – New York’s first padel club and padel venue.

There’s also signs of The Padel Club NY opening, but no real information in terms of facts as New Yorkers get excited and prepared.

The potential for padel is tremendous

Santiago Gomez

The ever growing sport of padel is finally coming to New York in the US. It seems only right that it’s a man of Mexican origin that is bringing the world of padel to New York back from his home country.

It’s said that Padel as a sport originated in 1969 in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco which is exactly where Santiago Gomez stayed during the covid pandemic to get the idea of bringing padel to NY.

As padel continues to grow, make sure to read our complete coverage of the growth of padel in the US.