Hi guys in this video today, we’re going to talk about the two different types of technique for the bandeja. Now, if you watch a high level of the World, Padel Tour, you’ll notice that a lot of the players they use slightly different techniques when it comes to hitting that defensive smash and that’s also the same for the right side of the court.
Compared to the left side, so the bandeja is a defensive ball.
You can hit from slightly further back in the court and in this video we’re going to show you two techniques that you can use To begin with.
We’ll look at the purpose of the bandeja.
Now, if you hit your bandeja a defensive smash from further back in the court.
Your aim is to get quickly up to that net position and the best way to do that is to hit a slow or medium speed ball into the corner, putting your opponents under pressure, but also buying yourself time to get back up to that net.
Here you can see quite a deep lob and I could let this bounce and play after the back glass, but I decided to keep that net position and hit a bandeja both times sprinting forward.
Afterwards, there’s a lot of similarities between the bandejas to begin with, from both of them.
You turn your shoulders.
You turn your hips your feet. You move back into that position.
The racket starts going up straight away and you contact the side Now.
The difference is that for one of them you use your chest almost like a high forehand volley and the other one.
You use more your arm as if it’s kind of like a throwing action where you come around the side of the ball.
The purpose is still to hit with spin and nice control in the corner, but they’re different techniques for that now to begin with the first one way you use your chest.
This is a good one to learn when you’re starting out, because it’s a simpler technique.
You go straight into this position.
The racket goes up and from here you control that ball, like a high forehand volley contacting to the side, with the racket face slightly open, and the aim of that is just to control that ball to push it back into the corner.
Now, the other one where you use your arm, is you come back and brush around the outside of the ball? This is a slightly more advanced technique, because the timing has to be just right for this.
In order for you to contact that ball well, spin it and put it into the corner When it comes to choosing which shot to play on which side normally, on the right hand, side. If you’re a right handed player, you’ll often play the shot with a chest, because you, don’t have as much space to the right hand.
Side of you and often the lob doesn’t go in that area.
If it does go in that area, then yes, you can be a little bit more aggressive, go around the outside of the ball, but more often than not.
It comes on from the cross court or centre the lob or even down the line, and it’s going to come into this area.
So if you contact slightly higher it’s much easier to do that.
If you’re using your chest on that bandeja the other technique, you will see more often from the left side.
It’s a similar technique to the vibora, but with a slower, racquet head speed.
So all of these balls that go in the middle that the left player takes if it’s a defensive bandeja.
They’re gon na, come across hit that slice and then get back up to in that position, but they’re gon na hit.
In a lot more controlled fashion On this bandeja, you can see that he hits more with the arm. He has a bent elbow.
He comes back brushes around the outside of the ball, nice controlled speed and then sprints back up to net.
Therefore, retaining the net position, Whether you’re just learning this technique or you’re wanting to practice the feel on the ball.
It’s always good to grab a basket of balls and just to have a go at practicing yourself.
So here we’re going to just hit a few with the chest and then we’re gon na hit a few with the arm, and I’m gon na start the racket up high for the shot with the chest and just down that back Of the ball and deep into the court trying to hit both glasses, if I can and again racket up high and you can see a nice controlled speed, my contact is slightly under the ball going through that ball, and now I’m going to take three Where I’m, just gon na, come around the outside of the ball.
So I start slightly with the racket behind the head, which you’ll notice from some of the vibora videos, and I’m just gon na hit a similar speed, but just brushing around the outside of that ball.
And you can see that the speed on the ball is similar in both, but they’re both in that corner this one with the arm has slightly more kind of side spin and the other one comes down the ball a little bit more, but the best Way for you to find out which you prefer is just to practice and to practice here with the basket, but also to practice when you get into a match situation, When you’re learning the bandeja from the beginning, I would always learn it with the chest: Technique because it’s a lot simpler, you’ve got a lot more kind of contact range where you can contact that ball and you’re less likely to make a mistake when you’re using your arm, you have to get that timing.
Just right so the chest bandeja like the high forehand volley, is a lot easier at the beginning and then, when you’re introduced to the vibora and you get used to hitting some viboras, you can then learn to slow the racket head, speed down and experiment With which one you prefer in which different situations you’ll, see a lot of players that use both.
Now we’ve done a full course on the overheads on thepadelschool com, and I’ll put the link in the comments down below that’s.
A great place to go to, if you want to learn more about the overheads It’s really important, that you get comfortable with your bandeja technique because it’s more than likely. You’re going to use it almost every single point here.
You can see a nice control bandeja into the corner and it’s their way of keeping that net position.
Eventually, we managed to take the net and then we’re controlling the game from the front of the court, and the bandeja is the thing that keeps us at the net here.
You can see that point.
Nothing is hit with really aggressive power, but the point is one: with a nice control.
Bandeja .
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