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01 — Padel academy systems

An academy system built inside the Middle East’s largest padel operator.

Consistent coaching, player progression you can actually check, and a team that keeps working when you are not watching. I built it running the academy at PADELIN in Doha — three coaches, 450 to 500 lessons a month, over 90% retention in the junior programme — and it is built to be installed in clubs in fast-growing padel markets and run by your own staff.

For club owners building, fixing or scaling a padel academy. Not a coaching service — a system your own team runs.

Built for fast-growing padel markets across the Gulf, South and Southeast Asia and West Africa. Remote-first, with on-site intensives. English and Spanish.

02 — What I do

Courts are a construction problem. Academies are a coaching one.

You can put four courts up in twelve weeks. Filling them every week, keeping players improving and stopping them leaving after six is a different job, and it is the one I do. Five ways in, depending on what your club needs.

01

Academy implementation

Club owners

I build the academy your courts don’t have — and train your own staff to run it.

Talk about your academy
  • Levels with written entry and exit criteria
  • Planned sessions for every level
  • Assessment and progression system
  • Programme, pricing and term structure

02

Method licence

Clubs already running it

What stops it all drifting back to whatever your coaches did before.

Ask how the licence works
  • Session library updates
  • Coach re-audit on a fixed cycle
  • Certification for new hires
  • Monthly retention review

03

On-site coach intensive

Clubs, leagues and federations

Three to five days on your courts, certifying the whole coaching team at once.

Bring me to your club
  • 3–5 days, on your courts
  • Whole team certified in one go
  • Written assessment criteria
  • Works for a club or a federation

04

Coach certification

Individual coaches

Studied online, assessed on court, and marked against the criteria a club actually hires on.

Apply for certification
  • Foundation, Development, Performance
  • Academy and Kids specialisms
  • Online study, on-court assessment
  • Assessed on court, not a weekend attendance certificate

05

Coach placement

Clubs hiring

Fill a role with someone already trained in the system you run.

Ask about hiring
  • Coaches trained in your system
  • Head coach or academy staff
  • No agency fee for the coach
  • Optional, never a condition

Scope and price are settled on the call, in writing, after it. There is nothing to sign to have the conversation.

03 — The method

A player’s level is a fact the club can check.

Padel court plan A padel court seen from above. The near half is banded from the back of the court to the net, banded L1–L2, L3–L4 and L5–L6, showing how the six levels map onto court territory. L1–L2 L3–L4 L5–L6
Every level is a place on the court, with written criteria for entering and leaving it.

Six levels, each defined by what the player can do and how much of the court they use. Juniors climb the same six, on a programme written for them.

That is the difference between an academy and a timetable of lessons. When the criteria are written down, a player’s level stops being a judgement one coach makes and the next one overrules — and you can finally see whether anybody is actually progressing.

The full syllabus, drill library and assessment forms are delivered under licence.

04 — Who I am

Not built from theory. Built inside operating clubs.

These are the rooms the method came out of, and the numbers they produce. Every part of it had to survive a real club before it became a system.

  • Now

    PADELIN City Center

    Head Coach and Club Manager. I run the academy, the class programme runs full month to month, and it is largely the same players term after term.

    Coaches
    3
    Lessons a month
    450–500
    Junior retention
    90%+
  • Previously

    PADELIN Aspire

    Led the academy and its coaching team at PADELIN’s other Doha venue.

    Coaches
    6
    Students
    300+
  • National team

    Saudi padel federation

    Worked with the federation, coaching their national team at a GCC Cup.

The two PADELIN entries are roles I have held as an employee of PADELIN, at two of its Doha venues. PADELIN is not a client of AC Padel Method, is not a partner in it, and is not a party to it. It is named here as employment and nothing else.

Angel Carrasco

Head Coach and Club Manager at PADELIN in Doha, Qatar — the largest padel operator in the Middle East. I have run the academy at two of its venues.

Ten years coaching padel, most of it inside operations rather than beside them: building level systems, hiring and training coaching staff, and answering to occupancy and retention numbers rather than to a lesson diary.

  • BasedDoha, Qatar
  • Working languagesEnglish, Spanish
  • DeliveryRemote-first, plus on-site intensives
  • Focus marketsGulf, South & Southeast Asia, West Africa

Twenty minutes, and you’ll know whether this fits your club.

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05 — FAQ

The questions owners ask on the first call.

Do you have to be here in person?

No. The level structure, session library, assessment system, packaging model and reporting are built with you over video and delivered as working documents. The part that genuinely needs a court is coach assessment, and that is what the on-site intensive is for — three to five days, once the system is already in place, so the visit is spent on people rather than paperwork.

How long does it take?

A club opening soon usually needs eight to twelve weeks, because the coaching team has to be hired and certified as well as the system installed. An open club being rebuilt moves faster on the documents and slower on the people: the audit and rebuild take four to six weeks, and retraining existing coaches out of old habits takes longer than training new ones.

What do we have to provide?

Court time for assessment and training. One person on your side who owns the academy internally and can make decisions. Access to your booking and membership data, or a monthly export, so the reporting is built on your real numbers. And candidates — if you have no coaches yet we design the hiring together, but you have to be able to recruit locally.

Our coaches don’t speak much English.

That doesn’t break it. I work in English and Spanish, and the system is designed to be delivered by coaches in their own language. The written materials are English; the on-court delivery is not. In practice we identify one or two coaches with stronger English early and train them as the internal bridge.

Do we have to use your coaches?

No, and that is the point. The method exists because most of these markets cannot import coaching staff, so it is built to be delivered by local people trained and certified in place. Placement is available if you want help filling a role, but it is an option and never a condition.

Can we see prices?

Not on a page. Scope varies by the number of courts, the number of coaches, whether you are opening or rebuilding, and how much your own team can carry. That gets settled on a 20-minute call, and you get a written scope and price after it.

06 — Book a call

Twenty minutes, and you’ll know whether this fits.

Tell me the stage of the club and the number of courts. I’ll come to the call having looked at your market, and I’ll tell you plainly if the method isn’t the right thing for you yet.

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