SimplePadelLucas Sánchez is the founder of SimplePadel. Born and raised in Spain, Lucas has been living in the US and UK for the last 20 years and currently calls Miami his home. While he’s never played professionally, the dream is still alive.
Lucas loves nothing more than playing (and talking) about padel, and he considers himself lucky to have a wife and family that share his love for the game.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
