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And today we're at Caribe
Royale here in Orlando.
And today we're going to talk
to Angel Espadas about his
career and his life in Padel.
How many courts do they have?
They have two courts here?
We have two courts, uh,
Padel, two courts of Pickleball.
And the idea in the short future would
be opening in that area, you know?
It's a private club.
They're going to expand how well
this does, but not only for a guest,
there will be here's five hours a
days for guests and the other is
open, but there will be as a open.
Okay.
Right.
So when did they put this up?
Really?
I don't know.
It was, uh, we are starting, uh,
with the project before, uh, COVID.
Okay.
Uh, I thought that, uh, They forget
it because it's, uh, they say
that one day in August, they told
me we are, uh, starting to work.
So you might be ready in,
uh, the end of the year.
Wow.
And we open in January.
Wow, January.
At the end, really, we are waiting
for the bench, uh, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then we will organize,
uh, the big opening.
So how did they come to
put Padel courts here?
I mean, that's like, uh I mean, I
know it's popular in Miami, but over
here, it's just starting to grow.
So how was it that they said, Hey,
I want to put some pickle parts?
Uh, is that, is that, no, it's a, it's
a, it's a mixing story because, uh, a
friend was working here with, uh, doing
the, doing the, doing the laundry.
Uh, I, I thought with him, was that
someone that was, I teaching him in
Miami and he said to me, but, uh,
The American people don't know this.
Uh, let me, let me, Oh, I have plenty.
Um, so I, we already with a very,
very good presentation to him.
So he'll, Oh, it's fun because they had,
uh, tennis court, uh, no one playing
there, so another basketball court.
No, I, you see, I say,
okay, this is a good option.
Maybe we can, it's cheap.
I pay the course.
And the new manager arrives.
Look this over the
table, say, what is this?
I want to know about this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He call me and he tell, he say, Okay,
right now I'm, uh, preparing, uh,
another, another convention center
because, uh, I love boxing and we are,
I will organize a league of boxing.
Okay.
After this, we will do.
Okay.
Okay.
I was confident at the end.
He did it.
He called me.
I say, Angel can come tomorrow to Orlando.
We are starting the project.
I said, Oh, crazy.
And then it was amazing because my
idea, you know, me, I was helping
in Miami when I arrived there.
was few people playing.
I cried for that because they
what I'm doing here is impossible.
I said, Nothing is impossible.
I right now I moved to Orlando
thinking that in 23 years we
can have a lot of course here.
And really, there's a lot of
people asking for business.
It's like brand new.
Right?
I mean, how are the court?
Okay, so what are they
using for the for the turf?
Is it monofilament or is it, what is it?
No, it's the, uh, what brand is it?
Uh, man, the Mando.
It's Mando.
It's Mando.
Mando.
Okay.
And you use a silicone
for stand for outdoor?
Yeah.
So do you use silicone
or sand then, or No.
Does it have the, is it
monofilament or is it the other?
The other one.
The other one.
The other one.
It is.
Okay.
So you do use silicone sand, right?
A little bit.
Uh, we need a little bit more.
Okay.
Yeah.
And how new is this?
This is just this year, right?
Or last year?
This year.
One month ago, when two months ago.
So how does it play?
So it's a difficult finding people
because most of the people that play
in the other side in the USDA campus,
they live in there in this area.
So, and then we are starting
calling today was a very good day.
I have organized clinics for free.
Yeah, I did it in the past in Miami.
This, uh, we have the, uh, uh, To
play, uh, open all levels given, uh,
they pay only 25 for three hours.
It's too cheap because
we need to call people.
I know the game.
I know the course.
And here is a very good facilities.
Yeah.
Uh, the hotel is amazing.
Very good restaurants,
sport bar is a good place.
So you guys own, they own
that other and the other side.
So my first idea was, uh, all this space.
Since Padel Court.
Only two Pickle.
Two Pickle Court.
Right, right.
They weren't sure right When they,
they knew about the, not the, the,
the, the Daddy Yankee, but Yeah.
Yeah.
That they say the franchise
that helped then, right?
They, yeah.
They motivate them to put, they, they
say, okay, maybe we, we were around, yeah.
Yes.
Yankee.
Yankee, and they told me, but don't
worry, all of this, all of this trees.
The land is ours.
Right, right.
So it's working well,
we are opening there.
Right, right, right.
But then I say, okay,
only two is too small.
This is okay, but this is a good start.
But these look so beautiful.
So beautiful.
Yeah.
Like brand new.
Oh my God.
Nico, Andrea, they, uh,
team came from Miami.
Yeah.
Was crazy.
Three sessions training here.
Oh, they can play here?
Yeah.
Training pre season.
Yeah.
Right now it's coming, uh, a
girl from, uh, United Kingdom.
So, he stay here, she shows, okay, I want
to train with you all week, all week.
Pre season, another It's okay,
because it's a nice place.
Yeah.
The only problem maybe
sometimes is the noise here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But here in this court, it's friendly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very quick, you know.
Yeah, and you get used to
it, anyways, the noise.
But, that's, okay, so, this
is, um, So, this originally
is obviously a hotel, right?
And they had tennis courts as
some of the amenities, right?
And so now they, they said, Hey,
look, let's, let's put in some Padel
courts and hopefully we can attract
some people to come in and stay.
And I think that's super smart.
Yeah, but it's a lot of people coming
from, from Padel because it's, uh,
really, uh, in this area, a lot of hotels.
People coming from another state, Texas,
you know, California, maybe New York.
A lot of people from
Europe, they want to play.
Do you know that when you have this
habit to play every day, one week that
you don't play, you say, that is so
nice, but they want to play a game.
A hundred percent.
Because when I go somewhere,
I look for a club close by.
Cause I want to play.
It's incredible.
You know, it's crazy.
But do you think you are?
Traveling, you're resting for
Padel at the end, after three
days, this is a drug, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
It's, yeah, it's an addiction.
A hundred percent, you know.
Okay.
So what is the cost?
So if, if somebody stays at the hotel,
um, how much is the cost to play
Padel, and what if somebody doesn't
stay at the hotel when they stay here?
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM is free.
Free.
Okay.
The other, the other hours,
they pay the same at the.
That people, somebody.
Okay.
Summary.
How much is that?
So they pay, uh, 25, uh, if it is 25 hour
and a half, 25 for an hour and a half.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
That's very competitive.
Yes, it's very competitive.
And mornings is 20.
Okay, so overplay 80, how,
how can they reserve courts?
Is there an app that you guys, we are
using an app, which is your personal app.
Apparel.
Okay.
No, we are using a
Padel as a apparel app.
Okay.
It's a little new, what is it called?
Padel App.
App.
A, P, P, Padel.
Okay, okay.
And there you can reserve the courts and
you could pay and everything like that.
We're doing organizing tournaments,
uh, Memberships, all that you
want, getting control with this.
It's a, it's a, it's new.
It's, uh, some friends of
my village in Barcelona.
Uh huh.
But, uh, the two ambassadors of
the brand is, uh, Tapia and Lebron.
Okay.
So, they are thinking something using
between, uh, Padel manager and playtomic.
Gotcha.
Okay.
So now what are the amenities here?
So if If if I come to play here, uh, do
we have showers or just bathrooms or no,
we had the bedrooms This is what we have
there uh, theoretically when they build
the course we're thinking only for guests,
okay, so uh we We think that when we will
organize a tournament And We'll have the,
the option maybe with the, uh, portable
and maybe going to the, the gym area.
Okay.
Gym area.
And they have, they have showers
there and stuff like that.
So in the future, maybe
that could be a possibility.
Okay.
That, that, that, that would be great.
Um, so how did, how did they contact you?
How did that, because I, I
know you from real Padel,
you know, how did that happen?
This Ally, obviously, uh, some
people is helping people by example
that, that are working in USDA.
Mm-Hmm.
or.
Diego Leal, Luisito
Estrada, Marco Del Pilar.
At the end, we are close friends.
We are close friends, so they are helping.
Because at the end, they know that really
we are in competition against them.
Right, right.
That we need more people playing.
Yeah.
So that people can not
play there and live here.
It's coming.
All right, right.
This is uh, and then is that
they are giving they they gave
me Uh phone numbers of players
i'm calling them very supportive.
Yeah, very supportive.
Very very good So so how uh,
how is it now about the leagues
that you guys have leagues yet?
Do you guys see people
reserving the courts?
I know you got two pickle courts there.
Are people playing more pickle than
Padel or is it half and half most of
Most of people uh, they are winning.
I need to talk with them in a second
The most of people that coming from
the hotel is coming to play Pickleball.
Pickleball, okay.
At the end, when they, we don't have,
this is good for me, because they
are asking for Pickleball court,
say, okay, you need to wait half
hour, I can give a lesson for free.
And you know me, I need the
people coming to my, to my.
So that's how you're
converting them, right?
That's so smart.
From a comfortable space.
Yeah, some of the pickle players
they come, do most of them have
seen Padel before, or they've
never seen Padel before?
Most of them never seen Padel before.
The other day came people from Minnesota.
I said, what's crazy?
Crazy, crazy, crazy.
But did you know the game?
I have seen a lot of reels.
Ah, yeah, reels.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Probably.
I said to him, because I said,
do you know Smash Academy?
Yeah, yeah.
Yes, I know this.
I know.
I said, but what?
Enjoying was more than it
seems what you are watching TV.
Yeah.
Yes, obviously.
It's so fun.
Yeah, it is.
It's an amazing game.
We're trying to give exposure.
Everybody's trying to help to give
exposure and make Padel grow.
This is big difference.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So let's talk about you, Angel.
Um, where are you originally from?
I'm from a small village
close to Barcelona.
Okay.
More in the rain, my city.
I was born there.
Okay.
And, uh, very, very Uh, Out
of the city, uh, neighborhood.
Okay.
Was studying, uh, my family was from, uh,
Ciudad Real, La Mancha, south of Madrid.
And I only been all my life there.
And I decided that I
wanted to come to America.
America.
Well, how, did you play
any other racquet sports?
I, I was soccer player.
Soccer player, okay.
But, uh, I fall in love
with, uh, Soccer player.
With tennis.
Tennis.
Okay.
I started one day.
Okay.
I can't say the day that it was.
Okay.
But my first day, I was 13.
I went to play with the
soccer team of under 19.
Okay.
And what an amazing final,
Bob McEnroe and Wimbledon.
Wow.
And then I was fall in love.
After this day, I play
every summer, every day.
Wow.
Tennis all morning.
So when you play tennis, did you see.
Uh, Padel.
Did you know about Padel or no?
Maybe you started here.
There not, yeah.
This time was, uh, I was very old,
so when I was, uh, starting to play
few times Padel, I didn't like it.
But Was that Spain or was
it No, it was in Spain.
Ally.
It was in Spain.
Okay.
Why, why didn't you like it?
What was, uh, the, you know, the
difference between tennis and
Padel and why didn't you like it?
For me?
Because I, I played tennis because, uh,
I didn't like run to run side to side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
And then I was.
My style was similar that Arancha Sanchez
Vicario, very high over the net and then
pass ball, pass ball, passing balls.
Okay.
Then playing with my friends.
Padel was so boring because
two, three shots out, out, out.
I didn't like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So then why I started to play Padel?
Yeah.
Because I had sporting
stores in Barcelona.
Okay.
Okay.
And in my villas, they
open, they open two clubs.
Both of them, they are my friends.
I say, Angel, do you
want to run the pro shop?
I don't like Padel.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
But you are my friend.
I want that you do.
Okay.
And I started.
Okay.
In this moment, I started to play with
people that were playing real Padel.
Real Padel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The correct way to say it.
After two, three months,
I was playing Padel.
Four, five hours every day.
So it took you two, three
months to transition.
Okay, wow.
Coaches, they want that you sponsor them.
You know, they are playing,
starting to play with coaches.
It was another thing.
And it is, uh, starting to play
competitive, very competitive.
So, I started to play tournaments.
I am arriving the third one to the final.
Obviously, the last category.
But, I say, okay, this is fun.
I like to compete.
I cannot compete playing tennis.
Thank you.
Because it's not the
same, it's more difficult.
But playing Padel with a
good partner, I can do it.
I'm starting to play, to play, to play.
Do you see that more and more happening?
Tennis players coming to be able
to compete again into Padel?
Soccer players.
Just like what you're saying?
Soccer players.
Soccer players too?
Because really, the soccer players,
when you finish your career, you
don't like to play senior soccer.
Right, right, right.
Because it's another thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you're looking for something.
That you run that you're using
your skills that you have on your
your feet, but you want to be
competitive You're still an athlete.
So your balance and timing
is still there, right?
You're just working on the skills
of your eye hand coordination
versus eye foot coordination.
Exactly So, how so how did you
how did you get to to the usa?
How did that happen?
uh, this is another amazing story
because I I in the Uh, la Olympic Games.
Yeah.
Remember, Carl Lewis was the most
important person this, uh, these weeks.
For me in this, uh, Olympic Games, I
will remember with the, uh, the boycott
of the, the Russia, all of the countries
of the years, the communist countries.
So, and then America Winner,
winner, winner, winner.
And in Spain, only one, one bronze medal.
Yeah.
And I say, I'm very
competitive, I told you.
I want to play with these people.
Okay.
Wow.
I say that.
People say, you're crazy,
this is impossible.
You're a Spaniard.
Yeah.
And this is, they are American.
Yeah.
But I won.
Then, sometime my, my wife is from Cuba.
Okay.
And we have.
Did you meet her here?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, and then, we decide to leave.
I decide, really, to move to, to Miami.
Okay.
She had here a lot of, uh,
friends, uh, family, uh, but
she wanted to stay in, in Spain.
Spain.
Okay.
I say, I want to train there.
Because I want to know that, uh, how
is working the, the sport in America.
Tennis, basketball,
university, college, you know.
So when you got to the USA,
did you already have, um,
a club to go to or a job?
And was it for tennis
or was it for Padel?
Nothing, just came,
said I want to go there.
I have only a joker in my, in my hand.
Okay.
I was working for a lot of
years, 15 years, in Novartis.
Yeah.
A pharmaceutical company.
I have good relations.
It was before I started
with, uh, pro shops.
Mm.
And I advising them, I moving to America
and they say, what are you doing?
I don't know.
I want to work there as a trainer.
I'm soccer coach, football
coach, a tennis coach, a cardio
tennis coach, Padel coach.
Mm-Hmm, . Really?
I like coaching.
Right?
So, but you know where you are.
I don't know.
And I dunno.
I need to, to analyze what
happened there and where is my
point, my good position for me.
I was coming to enjoy the
last years of my life.
That I like only is coaching.
So I arrived here.
I started with the soccer team.
Okay.
I was going to the, to play
Padel and coach with the head.
So what was the first Padel
club you played here in Miami?
I was going to play there.
Real Padel?
Real Padel.
Okay.
That was the first one
you went to play there.
Okay.
Great.
I started to play there.
Maybe going to A.
V.
Uh, the Adrian Beltramino Club.
That is right now Padel Life.
Yup.
So, but it was closer for me.
Real Padel.
Okay.
The coach they had was in Europe and
they told me, can you give some lessons?
Real Padel or Padel Life?
Padel.
Padel, real Padel.
Real Padel, okay.
Real Padel.
So that was your first
coaching in real Padel.
The first coaching there.
I started and people said that they, I
like them better than the other coach.
And they offer me running the club
and uh, Wow, that was the beginning.
The beginning of the Padel
journey here in the USA, right?
Wow, that's, that's pretty incredible.
And okay, so since that time until
now, how do you see the, the Padel
players progressing in Miami?
Crazy.
It's a big difference.
Uh, the, I want to paint with something.
The first tournament I organized there,
I get only 12 teams, but after the
second round, they came only for, wow,
they, they, they went to the tournament
because I say, please, please, please.
They play the first game.
I call in them.
Hey, why do you think that was?
Hey, are you coming?
Oh, sorry.
I'm on my boat with some friends.
I'm in a barbecue.
I will go Monday, Monday.
No, it's today.
They are waiting.
It was crazy.
I was crying in this situation.
But why, why do you think, in that time?
Because it was only
something, uh, spending time.
It was for fun.
Less competitive.
Okay.
Nothing.
Gotcha.
Nothing, nothing for anyone.
It was something new.
It was, okay, it's close to my home.
I want to play, you know, tennis.
It's, it's fun.
It's fun.
Most of them were from Argentina, Spain.
So how did, how did Padel get addictive?
See, at that point, they're
just playing for fun.
How did it transition to where people
are like, I gotta play, I need to play.
How did that happen?
I know there was COVID, but
besides that, how does that happen?
No, but really, no, we had the, the,
the afternoon, evening, we had the, when
we were working before COVID, was fall.
Okay.
Monday to Friday, fall.
Weekend, hmm, you know.
More activities in Miami.
But, oh, I did it.
I was on the street.
People were looking there.
I was pushing it inside.
Yeah.
Trying.
Yeah.
And most of people say, oh, this is fun.
You have a game free
the day that you want.
Oh.
And then people is telling, I know that
you play three times, you're addict.
Yeah, you get addicted.
It's only one of 20 person decide
that prefer playing tennis.
Right, right, yeah.
And then it goes.
Looking there and calling, using
my phone every day, organizing
the game for the next day.
At the end it's, you know,
each person is added.
It's moving 10 percent
more to play better.
That's what happened to me.
Happened to everybody.
Everybody.
It's an amazing sport.
And once you start playing, once
you start getting better, once
you start understanding more about
the game, you get more addicted.
You know, that's pretty amazing.
It's always the same, that football here.
If you're watching this, say, it
looks fun, but I don't understand.
But when you're
understanding, it's changing.
The thing is, with some, some
sports, it's easier just to watch.
Like a football, you have to get teams.
Exactly, it's waiting.
It's more, more people.
Here you only need four.
Exactly.
You're focused only in this.
This is the word that you say.
It's the first time I, which is a,
uh, uh, good game, first division.
They were, they, they wanted that I play.
Sponsorized a big tournament.
They call me the you know beer here Hamon
cheese, you know already and they call
me what do you think about this game?
Really?
What's so different that I saw I played
I say This way is too easy When you
understand the game, yeah, you still
doing people that is doing easy.
It's too easy.
Yeah You need only to understand
something Close spaces open spaces
and strike line Yeah, it is simple.
Most people complicate it.
Most people do complicated,
you know, but you're right.
It is simple But I think that's when
it comes through Understanding Padel
and they have a little experience
and then they finally realize
what what you realize so it takes
you kind of time Always it's fun.
Yeah, well, you understand
it always it's fun.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So let's talk about the USPA How,
how were you involved in the U us?
In USPA and how are you
involved now in the USPA?
Right now?
I am, uh, I am coach of the female team.
Okay.
Sorry.
The I am, I am the coach
of the senior team.
Yeah.
The U us coach P team
for the women's, right.
Women's.
And at the same time, uh,
Luther, Fernando Ramirez Yep.
Is the head coach of the absolute teams.
Yep.
He's, uh, with the male team,
and me with Mariana Talarico,
we are with the female team.
Okay.
So, but at the end we
are working together.
Okay.
Okay.
It's not that I'm, no, I helping
him to Louis, he needs help.
Luther is helping us.
We are working together.
Yeah.
And I think, I, I don't like to
say that I'm not the coach because
I think we are, we are a team.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
Definitely.
And I'm congratulate you for the Brazil,
you know, you guys won the US us you
won most points, which is pretty great.
How was that experience?
Yeah, KA Coon was crazy.
Yeah.
Cancun.
How was that experience?
That whole, it was a big experience.
I never did it.
This is a style of tournaments.
I have been, no, I have played
about coaching or watching,
uh, world championships is
another style of tournament.
I was crazy.
It's a lot of games.
And the most important for me was that
most of people in Cancun was crazy.
Whole people was men.
Usually they don't support girls.
Girls don't support guys.
All people together.
We say we are a team and this is the same.
Roster is no winning the girls.
Man is together.
We need that.
They win games.
All people together.
All people fighting.
All people going same places was crazy.
Was that really team?
It was the same first time.
I think this is a team.
All people are thinking we can win.
Yeah, we haven't win.
We arrived there, we were the only
ones saying, I think we will win.
People, Angel, you are a dreamer.
All people say, Angel, you are crazy.
That's where it starts.
You say, OK, maybe, third place.
But I think that we will win.
And the last day, when some called me,
Angel, because people don't know that,
uh, Right, the scores, the points.
But they were pointing, saying,
I think we win two games.
We are the winners.
Yeah.
If someone told me the other
six was doing the same, Angel,
do you think we are in the top?
Shut up.
Please shut up.
I don't want anyone.
But it's real.
Wow.
It's real.
Wow, wow, wow.
So, at the end we were dinning,
and we received a message
saying, You are the winners.
Wow, that's amazing.
Oh, my God.
I saw I saw the videos
and stuff was so amazing.
Wow.
Because the dream became a reality.
Yeah, that was amazing.
Wow.
That's I want with America.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is incredible.
You know, yeah, it was.
It was.
I mean, I saw a lot of the videos.
I saw a lot of the reels and
social media and I was like, wow.
Well, what a moment for USA, you know,
and how do you see the, you know, the The
level I know we're I know Spain, Argentina
are, have a head start, you know, but how
do you see us getting closer and closer?
I mean, you also see Luis and Nico, you
know, uh, they're playing the USPA and,
and they're getting better and better.
How do you see the US now?
We are on the way.
We're on the way, right?
We're on the way.
I said five years ago, in 15 years,
we will fight against Argentina and
Spain for the world championship.
Wow.
Why?
Because we have a lot of very good tennis
players or racquet players from squash,
racquetball, and tennis, obviously.
So, we need time.
Uh, the next step that we need is the
starting to introduce course in college.
Yeah, so there's one.
Yeah, there's one in California, right?
Yeah, exactly.
That's a good start.
This is a sally.
I was Really, I celebrated at
the same when we won in Cancun.
Wow.
Because for me, this is the next step.
You're right.
Why?
Because sport in America is
focused with the scholarships.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No parallel in college.
Some guys, young people is playing, but at
the end is the second, third, fourth game.
Yeah.
Sport that they practice.
Yeah, they gotta focus on
ones that take a scholarship.
Yeah.
And Padel's not there yet, right?
So do you see that
happening in the future?
I'm sure that yes.
I know that I am very dreamer.
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, I mean it's growing.
I could see it too.
I could see it too.
So how about the youth?
I know your son was a
tennis player, right?
He was.
And I see him play Padel.
Um, what do you think about the
youth and how can we get, you know,
uh, Padel growing within the youth?
Because, you know, If you don't start
with the youth, it could die out.
I mean, that's what happened to like
racquetball, which kind of died out.
And how do we get the youth involved?
He was, he started playing in the
clubs that I told you before, in
nice village playing Padel because
we didn't have tennis courts.
The course I started to play when I was
13, they building there and nothing.
So, and then he's starting to play Padel.
But when we arrived here, it was
with the idea that he tried to
be a professional tennis player.
But in the end, he was playing
tournaments, sometimes, you know,
but not as a parallel player.
He was playing as a tennis player.
And the last year, I said to them,
when you will be 16, you must decide.
Yeah.
This is the time.
You want to be a professional
player, tennis or parallel, you
need to be only focused on this.
Right.
He went to Spain.
He played, uh, two big tournaments
for young guys there, and he lost.
Tennis?
Tennis.
Tennis.
Yeah.
He lost.
A lot of them.
He played clay.
Usually here is more difficult
playing clay, but he did
it well, but he lost easy.
So, and he went to a Starbuy Academy.
Played there, but with some of the
gala, plays the young guys that
they are playing World Padel Tour.
He felt well, but not too much well.
The coaches.
They didn't say nothing good,
nothing wrong, but nothing different.
And then he came to Barcelona
to Marta Marrero Academy.
This week has arrived the coach, the
former coach of uh, uh, Chingoto Antello.
Okay.
Okay?
And Maxi Sanchez Acapra.
He started, he didn't like it.
My son, no, I don't like
he's a tennis player.
But after two weeks, Alan come back to
Miami, and the coach call me, I say, He
has possibilities to be professional,
but he needs to come tomorrow.
Say, okay, I can go there because
I have the surgery that my knee
after this, we are going there.
I want to see where will be all, all this.
And there, Martha Marrero
was so nice with him.
Although her team was amazing with him.
They were taking care of
him every day, every moment.
I say, okay, perfect.
He's moving here.
It's very tough for me
because he's, uh, my only son.
So, but it's his dream.
And right now he's there.
He's there.
He's trying to, yes.
He moved there.
They're opening an international academy.
He's the first one.
Uh, he played, uh, Uh.
Two first, uh, days, uh, with, uh,
uh, division owner division, the first
category league, he lost the first day.
He was so nervous.
He told me on the second day they won.
So what's his goal?
His goal is to be play pro.
He's training four sessions every day.
Wow.
Three, four sessions every day.
He living in front of the club.
That's only crossing the road.
Wow.
He's studying virtual.
Virtual school.
High school.
So, so what was the shift when that
coach told him, Hey, he has potential
to be, uh, uh, number one, or what
was that shift where that pivot
where he said, I want to do it?
First of all, I think it's the,
he has a very high acceleration.
Okay.
He calculating the velocity of the arm.
Okay.
He, they, they calculate, uh, 91 miles.
Wow.
This is, that's very quick.
Yeah.
Very quick.
That's ugly.
This is an advantage.
This is talent because
he's included with him.
And then the other thing was
that he was saying every time,
I don't know about Padel.
He's saying, when he make a mistake, he
say, I don't know nothing about Padel.
I need to learn.
I need to learn.
I need to learn.
So he's willing to learn.
He's hitting them.
He's very focused.
He, you know, he's very calm, very, he is
not as me because I'm so too much nervous.
. It's a passion.
It's a passion.
You, exactly, exactly his passion.
He's very calm, very quick.
He's hearing all the time.
So he's doing pretty well and they
think that he has possibilities.
That's amazing.
So, but it's only possibilities, you know?
It's, yeah, of course, of course.
So around the world, how, how important it
it is to have, um, clinics for the youth.
And how to develop that because I know in
spain They definitely have that but here
I don't see it that much if I go to clubs.
It's mostly Filling the the courts
and getting people there, but I
don't see a lot of youth So how I
need that I I'm going to throw it
to through Something for clubs.
Okay for me, obviously i'm not the owner.
Yeah, i'm not investing my money, right?
Okay, but you are doing clinics for
free Every week, the other course
will be, uh, difficult hours to play.
The other course will be the, will
be the play, the parents playing.
So, you will have double
that you have right now.
This is my idea.
Because people moving there, the five
parents I'm thinking only scholarships.
Gotcha.
Angel, thank you so much.
for doing so much for Padel.
Thank you.
And I wish you all the
luck here in this new club.
The same for you.
All right.
I want to work another time with you.
Another when I come back when I fly.
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