Although they come from different experiences and backgrounds, both found in Padbol many of the elements modern high-performance football demands: technical ability, quick decision-making, coordination, game awareness and constant interaction with the ball.
One of the aspects they highlighted most was the sport’s ability to develop technical actions that appear less frequently in traditional football. Headers, volleys, first aerial touches and body orientation are repeated again and again throughout every point.
“By being in constant interaction with the ball, all individual technical skills are improved, especially aerial contacts,” said Camenforte.
But Padbol’s value does not end with technique. Both professionals emphasized the cognitive demand of the game: perceiving, deciding and executing within seconds, in a reduced space where every action forces the player to think constantly.
Torres also underlined this point.
“The reduced space gives you more control and precision in decision-making… you are always in continuous contact with the ball, which means that with practice you improve constantly.”
They also agreed that Padbol can become a valuable tool for the development of young footballers and an excellent complement within training processes, creating situations that enrich the player’s technical, coordinative and tactical growth.
That specialists used to working with top-level players find in Padbol a useful tool for developing footballers confirms something more and more clubs are beginning to discover: it is not just a different sport.
It is a new way to train.
