The Best Padel YouTube Channels to Learn From in 2026

There is more free padel coaching on YouTube than a club player could watch in a year, and most of it never reaches the court. The technique advice on the best padel YouTube channels is genuinely sound, taught by coaches who work with professionals. The problem is on the other end: watching is passive, twenty videos blur into one, and you turn up on Tuesday with exactly the bandeja you had last Tuesday.

That makes the useful question narrower than “which channel is best”. The channels below do five different jobs, and the one you need depends on whether you are trying to fix a shot, understand why you keep losing the middle, decide on a racket, or just enjoy the sport on a sofa. Nobody needs all five.

Subscriber counts and upload rhythms below were checked in August 2026, and both move. The categories do not.

The Best Padel YouTube Channels, Sorted by Job

Technique: The Channels That Fix a Shot

The Padel School (218K subscribers) is the reference point in English and has been since Sandy and Tom Farquharson started it in 2019. Sandy coaches the Great Britain team, and the channel carries that structure: one shot or one concept per video, filmed on court, explained in the order a coach would explain it in a lesson. It publishes every two to four days, which over six years has produced a back catalogue deep enough that almost any question you have is already answered somewhere in it.

Its particular strength is the tennis-crossover audience. A recurring theme is which tennis instincts actively hurt you in padel, and if you came from tennis that is worth more than any individual shot tutorial. Our guide for tennis players moving to padel covers the same ground in writing.

Hello Padel (64.3K) is the one to watch if tutorials have stopped working for you. Instead of a coach demonstrating a shot in isolation, most videos are live coaching sessions filmed in Spain with a real player who has a real fault, and you watch the fault get diagnosed and corrected in eight minutes. Watching someone else be corrected is uncomfortably effective, because the mistakes are the ones you make rather than the ones a script predicted.

Padel Drive (81.5K) is Gonzalo, a Spanish engineer who quit his job for padel and now makes the bluntest improvement videos on the platform. Titles run to “Your smash sucks, this is why” and “Stop slicing from the back of the court”. The tone is direct rather than aggressive, and the diagnosis is usually right.

Alto Padel (44.8K) is in Spanish, run by coach Adan Ponce, and worth adding even without the language. The videos are visually explicit enough to follow with the sound off, they cover physical preparation as well as technique, and the solo-practice videos are the best structured of any channel here. If you want the written version, our padel drills you can practise alone covers the same wall-and-cone work.

Tactics: Understanding Why You Lose Points You Did Not Miss

Shot channels answer “how do I hit this”. They do not answer why you were standing there in the first place, and for most club players above the beginner stage that is the bigger leak.

Otro Nivel Padel (77.9K) is the strongest tactics channel in English, run out of the Netherlands, and the format is what makes it work. A viewer sends match footage, the channel breaks down the positioning errors frame by frame, and the errors are mundane: standing a metre too close to the net, both players drifting to the same side, attacking a ball that was never attackable. It also brings in professionals to fix a specific shot on camera, which sounds gimmicky and mostly is not.

Mejora tu Pádel (349K) is the largest padel coaching channel in Spanish, run by coach Manu Martín, and it mixes tactical breakdowns with long interviews where professionals talk about how they actually make decisions in a point. The interview content has no English equivalent at that depth.

Dani Hoyo (35.5K) is a Spanish coach filming a season-long series following one player’s attempt to reach the world top 100, in English. It is the only channel here that shows what coaching looks like across months rather than in a single lesson, including the physical testing and the parts that do not work.

Positioning is one of the few areas where reading beats watching, because you can study a court diagram at your own pace. Our three court zones guide and doubles positioning guide are the written companions to what these channels show in motion.

The Professional Game

Premier Padel (875K) is the official tour channel and the largest padel channel of any kind. Full-match replays, daily highlights from every P1 and Major, and a growing interview strand with the top players. Everything is free, which was not true of the tour’s previous broadcast arrangement.

FIP, the International Padel Federation (188K) covers the tier below: FIP Gold and Platinum events, the junior championships, and national team competition. If you want to see the players who will be in the Premier Padel draws in three years, they are here now.

Wrist Padel (46.9K) is a Spanish highlights channel that publishes extended cuts of individual matches within hours of them finishing, often several a day during a tournament week. It is the fastest way to keep up with a tour that plays somewhere almost every week.

One warning about all three. Highlight reels teach you nothing about positioning, because they are edited to show the winner and cut the twelve neutral balls that created it. If you are watching to learn rather than to enjoy, watch a full match and keep your eyes off the ball: watch the pair without the ball instead, and notice how rarely they are more than three metres apart. Our post on what amateurs can actually steal from pro padel separates the habits that transfer from the ones that do not.

Racket Reviews: Know Who Is Selling

Padel Smash TV has a million subscribers and publishes racket reviews at an industrial rate, several a week, each following the same format. EverythingPadel (123K) mixes reviews with tournament vlogs from a genuinely decent player. Probando Palas (20.3K) is the Spanish equivalent and the most methodical of the three, always comparing a new racket against a named alternative rather than reviewing it in a vacuum.

All three are attached to shops. Padel Smash TV describes itself as the media arm of a platform that runs a pro shop; EverythingPadel is a UK padel retailer; the large Spanish review channels are mostly run by or with stores. This does not make the reviews dishonest, and the hands-on feedback about weight, balance and how a racket behaves on a mishit is real information you cannot get from a spec sheet. It does mean you will never see a video titled “this racket is not worth the money” from a channel that stocks it, and that the release calendar drives the content calendar.

Use them to narrow a shortlist, then ignore the conclusion. What decides a racket is your arm and your level, not a reviewer’s swing. Our guide to choosing a padel racket works from shape, weight and balance instead of brand.

The Channels You Watch Because You Like Padel

the4Set (64.5K in English, and 229K on its Spanish twin el4Set) is Pablo, who follows the tour, gets coached by professionals on camera, and covers the tour’s gossip as well as its results. Same creator, two channels, genuinely different editing for each audience.

Padelactico (19.8K) is a former tennis player chasing a world ranking and filming the attempt, including the tournaments where it goes badly. Big Smash Padel is Joe Marler and Tubes learning padel in public for a British audience, which is the most effective recruiting device the sport has in the UK. xTRES (84.9K, Spanish) runs a 1v1 series with professionals that has no real equivalent anywhere else.

None of this will improve your padel. It is fine to watch things for pleasure.

How to Actually Improve From Watching Padel YouTube

Watching feels like training and produces none of the adaptation, which is why players can log fifty hours of padel content and play exactly as they did before. Four rules make the difference.

One change per session. Pick a single thing from a single video and take only that to the court. A bandeja contact point, a two-metre net position, one rule about who takes the middle. Two changes at once means you cannot tell which one worked, and three means you play worse than you did before you watched anything.

Watch after the match, not before. A video watched on the way to the court adds a voice in your head at exactly the moment you need fewer of them. The same video watched the evening after a match lands against a specific memory of a specific ball you got wrong, and that is what makes it stick.

Apply the drill test. If a video does not contain something you can repeat on a court on your own or with one partner, it was entertainment. Excellent entertainment, sometimes. Still entertainment. The channels above that pass this test most often are The Padel School, Alto Padel and Hello Padel.

Film yourself before you believe you fixed it. Every player who has watched a bandeja tutorial believes their contact point has moved. Roughly half are wrong, and thirty seconds of phone footage settles it in a way that no amount of feeling settles it. Our guide to filming and analysing your own game covers where to put the phone and what to look for.

Then check whether it worked over a month rather than over one match, because a single result tells you nothing. Logging your matches gives you a win rate by partner and by court side to compare against, and our padel match stats worth tracking explains which numbers respond to a technical change and which do not.

What YouTube Cannot Do

It cannot see you. Every video is made for the average viewer’s fault, and yours may be the opposite one: the channel telling you to shorten your swing is talking to the eighty per cent who swing long, and if you are in the other twenty you will make your forehand worse by following correct advice. A coach who watches you for twenty minutes solves in one lesson what six months of video will not.

It also cannot give you repetitions. The reason a shot changes is a few hundred balls hit the new way, and no amount of watching substitutes for that. Treat the best padel YouTube channels as the diagnosis and the reading, and the court as the only place the change happens.

If you want a shorter starting point: subscribe to The Padel School for technique, Otro Nivel Padel for tactics, Premier Padel for the tour, and stop there until those three run out of things to teach you. That will take a while. For everything else in the padel software stack, our guide to the best padel apps in 2026 covers booking, levels and match tracking.