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.