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Forehand & backhand

Use the Horizontal mode — it alternates the wings for you

1. Select Horizontal on the app. It alternates forehand and backhand for you — leave the V and H angles exactly as the mode sets them.
2. Stand mid-court. Split step as the machine fires, every single ball.
3. The wings come in turn — forehand, backhand, forehand. Move your feet to each one, don't reach.
4. Aim deep and cross-court. Depth beats power in padel every time.
5. 30 balls. Stop when 20 land past their service line.

Volley

At the net — low and deep, not winners

1. Put the ShotBot midway between the baseline and the back glass, central to the court.
2. Stand 4-5 paces back from the net, racket up in front, weight forward.
3. Block it. No backswing — the pace is already there.
4. Low and deep to their feet. A high volley invites a lob.
5. 20 balls at Speed 60. Comfortable already? Run the same drill at Speed 70.

Freq 7 is the beginner setting — seven seconds between balls, so you have time to reset your feet. Speed 60 is the beginner feed; intermediate players go to 70. Machine position, V and H all stay the same either way.

Bandeja

Start from the Bandeja preset — slow feed, gentle backspin

1. Tap the Bandeja preset and leave the V and H angles exactly as it sets them. You are only changing Speed and Spin.
2. Take it above shoulder height and in front of you, never above your head.
3. Flat and controlled, not a smash. You're buying time, not ending the point.
4. Land it past their service line, then recover to the middle.
5. 20 balls. Stop when 15 land deep.

The -1 backspin holds the ball up just long enough to get under it. It is a much gentler version of the smash feed, which uses -4 — a bandeja is a lower lob than a smash lob, and the Speed and Spin are what set that apart.

Lob

The most underrated shot in padel — set it up on Horizontal

1. Select Horizontal and leave the V and H angles exactly as the mode sets them. You are only setting the Speed and the Spin.
2. Under the ball, long follow-through, high over their heads.
3. Deep enough that they can't smash it — depth matters more than height.
4. If it's short you'll get punished, so aim for the back glass.

Same mode and same Speed as the forehand & backhand drill — the only change is the -1 backspin, which floats the feed just enough to get underneath it and lift.

Back-glass return

Medium pace — a timing drill, not a fitness one

1. Let it pass you. Taking it early is what ruins this shot.
2. Turn side-on and move with the ball as it comes off the glass.
3. Take it late, around hip height, and lift it deep and cross-court.
4. 20 balls. Stop when you stop rushing, not when the hopper empties.

Bajada

Machine at the back of the court

1. Let the lob bounce and come off the back glass.
2. Wait for it to drop, then hit down through it as it falls.
3. Cross-court and low — this is the shot that takes the net back.
4. 15 balls. Stop when you stop catching it on the way up.

The +1 topspin bends the feed down at the end so it drops off the glass instead of sailing through. Leave it there while you groove the shot.

Serve return

Start from the ServeReturn preset — machine in the far corner

1. Put the ShotBot in the corner diagonally opposite you, roughly in line with the glass join between panels 1 and 2 on the back.
2. Tap the ServeReturn preset and leave the V and H angles exactly as it sets them. You are only changing Speed and Spin.
3. Take it early and low, before it gets to the glass.
4. Cross-court and deep, then move in. The return is how you take the net.
5. Don't try to win the point off it.

The corner position is what makes this one work — it puts the ball on the diagonal a serve actually travels. Straight down the middle from the baseline is a different shot entirely.

Víbora

Attack, not a harder bandeja — one number off the smash

1. Set up exactly as you did for the smash — machine closer to the back glass than to the baseline.
2. Cut across the outside of the ball — you want it skidding, not looping.
3. Target their side wall, low. If it sits up, you lifted your head.
4. Different shot to the bandeja: that one buys time, this one takes it away.

Same position, same angles, same backspin as the smash — the Speed is the only change, 40 there and 50 here. Drill the two back to back: one number between them, and the rest is what you do with the ball. The smash drives through it, the víbora cuts across the outside of it.

Smash

High feed, full swing

1. Set the ShotBot closer to the back glass than to the baseline — not level with the baseline. This one matters more than it looks.
2. Get under it early and turn side-on before it drops.
3. Contact in front, arm extended. Not a tennis serve.
4. Pick a target — the side glass or their feet. Not just hard.
5. 15 balls. Then nudge the Speed up a step at a time — that pushes the lob deeper, not faster at you.

Slow feed, heavy backspin, highest V the machine has. That combination is what makes it hang long enough to get underneath. Speed 40 is doing the work here, not holding you back.

Chiquita

Same feed as the lob — you pick which one to play

1. Select Horizontal and leave the V and H angles exactly as the mode sets them. This is the lob setting, unchanged.
2. Same ball as the lob. Off each feed, decide: lift it over them, or chiquita it.
3. The chiquita goes low over the net and down into their feet — short, not deep.
4. Mix the two up so the choice is yours, not the machine's. The feed never changes.
5. 20 balls. Stop when you can play either one off the same ball without having to think about it.

This is the lob card's setting exactly — Horizontal, Speed 50, backspin -1. That is the point of it: one feed, two answers. Run it straight after the lob and change nothing.