COACH GABO TIGER PADEL
Spain
Spanish, English
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Coach Gabo is a padel coach dedicated to improving players through technical training, tactical awareness, and mental discipline. His coaching focuses on consistency, confidence, and real performance on the court.
From Padel Chess
Free tactics to read
Illustrated walkthroughs showing what to play and why it works.
- Switching Sides in Padel: Shout Switch When Your Poach FailsA failed poach leaves you both on the same side with half the court empty. One word fixes it: shout switch, and your partner takes the side you left.
- At the Net in Padel, Prepare for the Worst Ball, Not the BestSet up expecting the fast uncomfortable ball. You will still have time to attack an easy one, but preparing to attack leaves no time to block the hard one.
- How to Block a Bajada in Padel: Move Closer to the NetStanding three metres back makes their court huge and your block impossible. Step in to about two metres, shrink their angles and you will reach far more of them.
- Poaching in Padel Is Not Stealing: Take It, but Play It CrosscourtPoach when you are genuinely closer to the ball. Just do not go parallel: your side is now open and your partner is too far away to cover it. Go crosscourt instead.
Puzzles to try
One court, one decision. Pick the shot you would play.
- Where to return a neutral ball from defensive position to make attackers' life harder?
- You're serving to the T-zone. Where should you move?
- Where to defend vs rulo / gancho?
- Their second serve bounces inside your box and then hits the metal fence. What do you do?