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Hello everyone.

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Today we're reviewing Padel
MBA coaches certification.

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I believe is one of the biggest, uh,
Padel coaches certifications worldwide.

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Um, there are pretty much
in all over Europe and now

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they're in the United States.

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And, uh, now the panel of MBA
certifications had the honor and

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pleasure to certify my dear co host Seth.

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So tell us, how was your experience?

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I mean, I think it was,
it was pretty awesome.

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They have a two part, you know, um,
one is online and one is in person.

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Okay.

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So the online is.

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I think it's great for everybody.

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I mean, not if you want to be a coach,
uh, just if you just want to learn

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more, or if you do want to be a coach,
uh, the online is very thorough.

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Like I said, it's very long.

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There's tests there.

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I've learned a lot, um, things that I.

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Kind of did know, but didn't know the
details of things I didn't even know.

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Um, and then of course there's a
lot of education on, on coaching.

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Um, so it was, I thought it was
very thorough and very, very good.

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I mean, uh, it was, it was done
very well, you know, online.

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And then there's an in person
you're going to go over theory and

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you're going to go over methodology.

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Um, and we were fortunate enough to,
to, uh, listen to, you know, Marcus's

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inspirational and motivated motivational,
uh, speeches, which is, uh, a bonus,

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a plus, uh, it's very priceless.

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When you're outside, you're going
to focus on, uh, training, uh, you

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know, ball feeding and your skills.

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And that's pretty much
what they grade you on.

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Um, if you, you know, they, they
input it in, they send it to Spain.

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Uh, and then they, they, they,
you come back and they give you

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rather a, a coach's certificate
or professional certifications.

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Um, I thought it was really
great, um, the whole weekend.

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It was a lot of fun.

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Again, I learned a lot.

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Uh, you know, I'm not really a coach.

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But, but, but let me ask you, you
know, how, how the whole process.

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So you said you want to become a coach.

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So you go online.

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You register online.

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Yep.

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You paid, what was the cost?

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Okay, so the cost is about 5.

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50 in the U.

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S.

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Okay, and that includes the online
and the in person certification.

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And you can always get online,
you can always go back to it.

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Okay, and do they give you that for a
certain amount of time or it's forever?

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Forever.

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I mean, for years, it's not
a one year type of thing.

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Uh, they didn't say, but I mean, I think
you have access to it all the time.

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Okay.

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So, and the online process where
like there are stages that you

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have to take past level one,
level three, how does that work?

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Like you can't just, you know, run,
you just can't pass through everything.

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So you have to watch the videos.

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It's like they force you
to, which is great anyways.

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I mean, you don't, you don't think
you just want to not, not pay 5.

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50 and not educate yourself, you know?

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So you have to go through the videos
and then you have to take these

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tests and you got to pass them.

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If you don't pass them,
you can't move forward.

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Okay.

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Can you retake the test?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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It's for people like you that have
issues, you can take the test as many

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times as you like 12 times each day.

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So, so it's very long.

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I mean, it took me like a whole week.

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It took me three hours, you know,
almost per day for the whole week, you

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know, um, after that, I just couldn't
be like, it's too much, you know, for

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me and I have other things to do, you
know, like the length of the videos is

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that, uh, do you have their video for
like 45 minutes or they're very short.

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Some are like.

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20 minutes, some are like 45, some of
the, it all depends, you know, uh, like

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60, 70 percent of it are basic things
like they kind of knew maybe 75 percent

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and there's the other 25 percent that I
really learned that, you know, I, I didn't

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know certain things, you know, um, or
other things were more clarified to me.

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And then obviously the coaching
stuff, I, you know, I'm not a coach,

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so I learned, I learned a lot there.

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So I, I, I think it was,
I think that's great.

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I mean, even if you just want
to be a better player, yeah.

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You know, understand the game more.

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Um, I mean, it's, it's a
pretty good, um, course.

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So, so you, you pass those tests
and then you, you're qualified

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to go into it in person?

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Yeah.

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So once you get that, you get like
the first, like a certificate, like

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you first, uh, you finish that.

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Okay, now the online process.

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Mm-Hmm.

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. Now you can go ahead and do the
in person, you know, so they have

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'em, I think, you know, every
other month or, or every month.

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And it's over there in Orlando,
the USTA, uh, national campus.

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Um, so I headed over there and, and
I did the, you know, year in class.

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Maybe for a couple hours.

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Um, it's Saturday and Sunday, and
they talk a little bit about, you

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know, methodology, um, you know,
and coaching and their way they,

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they, they, they want to coach.

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Um, and then they also talked
a little bit about training.

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And then, you know, we had
Marcus, uh, Pilar there.

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And we're very fortunate to listen to some
inspiration for his inspirational and, you

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know, a motor, motivational, uh, you know,
uh, speeches, uh, which is priceless.

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I mean, I look up to him as a
business person, not just a Padel

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player, uh, and then you go outside.

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So, and, and, and outside
what type of drills do you do?

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So, they focus on training,
you know, their own, you

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know, methodology of training.

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Um, so that's on one court.

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Um, and you have to create
your own training, like a plan,

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you know, at that by Sunday.

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You have to turn that in, in
writing, and then you actually have

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to demonstrate it in front of them.

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You know, Marcus and the other
coaches, and then the other, the

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other, the other side, you have more
ball feeding, you know, that was

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kind of like, uh, one of the testing
and then the other side is skills.

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So we'll make sure you know how to play,
what level you are, make sure you're,

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you know, you're teaching correctly.

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And then they want to make sure
you know how to train correctly,

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like they're again, methodology.

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And then obviously you want to make
sure you, you know, the ball feed.

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You know, because again, if, if you
are going to be a coach and you're

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going to charge somebody, you know,
a hundred, 200 an hour and you can't

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feed them the ball, you know, then
they're going to be a little upset.

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That's one of the, that
was my next question.

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I mean, the feeding part, it's crucial.

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I mean, in Padel compared to, let's
say tennis, you know, you have a

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big margin of error in tennis that
you can feed it one feet out, one

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feet in and still a good shot.

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In Padel, you're talking
about inches, inches, meaning.

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Yeah.

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If you want to feed that shot, side wall,
back wall, back wall, you know, side wall,

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it's, do you, do they test you in that?

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Yeah.

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And as a player, you're not accustomed
to giving the ball nicely to the person.

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Yeah.

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You're accustomed to put it
in a more difficult situation.

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So it goes against everything that
a player really thinks, you know.

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Um, so that was the most
difficult thing for me.

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You know, um, all the other parts
were, you know, pretty, pretty easy,

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but you have to kind of, they put like
these plastic things down and you have

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to get them in the spots and they're
very, very, very small, you know, and

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you have to put them in the corners,
you know, um, so it's a pretty big

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test and you have to get three in.

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Um, if you don't get three in, then
you're discounted, uh, you know,

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your grade goes down or whatever.

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So it's, it's not easy.

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That's the most, I think that's where
most people have the most difficult time.

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The other ones, there's no problem.

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Um, but that's where
everybody had, had issues.

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And how many people were there?

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I think there was about, uh, 18
to 20 people there, you know, and,

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uh, you know, and the instructor.

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So let's talk a little
bit about instructors.

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Um, you had Luis Estrada Estrada there,
your number one player here in the U.

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Uh, Diego Leal and Marcos Del Pilar.

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So you had some really
good instructors there.

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Uh, the, you know, the, the
environment was really cool.

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Everybody was very nice.

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Um, everybody was into Padel.

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You had some tennis players converting
into Padel coaches that are,

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you know, now that they say their
facility now is having Padel courts.

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So now they're going to
be in charge of that.

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Uh, there are people opening up, you
know, clubs, you know, other people

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just want to focus on, on being coaches.

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So yeah, you know, uh,
all walks of people there.

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That's excellent.

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I mean, I mean, that's very positive.

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I mean, one of the major things that
we need here in the United States,

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we have, you know, over more than
probably 200 courts right now in

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the United States, which is nothing
compared to the rest of the world.

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But we don't have 200 coaches
that work or have make Padel as a

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life, you know, uh, career career.

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So we need more and more coaches, and I
think Padel will be a great way to start.

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Yeah, I think it's, I think
it's the best, uh, you know,

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uh, course, uh, you can take.

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It's thorough, like I said, and it's
going to take up your time, but so

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if you just want the one certificate,
that's just not the place to go.

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If you want to learn, you want, you know,
you be thorough and kind of do it the

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right way, that that's the place to be.

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Yeah.

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And remember, you know, they don't.

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Give you a certificate there.

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I mean, they give you a certificate
that you did the first part, second

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part, but they put all the information
in, uh, uh, you know, online.

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So it's, it's a web based and that's
get sent over to Padel MBA in Spain.

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They go off through everything,
meaning what you submitted

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when it comes to your training.

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Um, you're, you're testing and all
the three areas, you know, the skills,

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the training and, uh, the ball feeding
and after, and there's a test, there's

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another test that you have to take
the email, you like a 30 question

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test, you fill that out, you send that
back and now you wait, uh, and then

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they, you know, send you a certificate
rather being a co certificate or a pro.

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And if you don't make it a pro, you can
always kind of take one part again, you

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know, and to get to that pro there's
also a second level of coaching.

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Um, there's no tasks or anything
like that, but I think it's more of

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like, uh, updates and like, uh, new,
you know, new items, new things.

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And, um, and I, I want to
try to probably take that.

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