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Padel Tactics: a sports channel that publishes every day

Started
9 October 2026
Films
21: 7 long episodes, 14 Shorts
Most watched
7,644 views
Look
Painted, on a court drawn to scale
Publishing
A Short a day, scheduled by KitCut

Padel is booming, and most of what club players find about it online is a phone video of a drill. Padel Tactics does something a camera can't: it draws the court from above, from the side and from behind, stops the rally mid-air, and shows why the point was won. Every film is made with KitCut. The channel put out its first video on 9 October 2026; twelve days later it had 21 films.

Episode 2, "Bandeja, víbora or smash?", 8 minutes. On YouTube it has 1,940 views, and the people who watch it stay for more than three minutes on average. How it was made: an 8-minute film from one brief.

The series in one brief

Everything the films share is written once, in the project's brief, and every episode reads it:

  • The look. Gouache paintings for the opening and for technique, cut-out racket and ball, and an exact padel court, 20 m by 10 m with its glass and mesh walls, for every tactic. One palette: court blue, terracotta, navy, cream and one accent of optic yellow.
  • The facts. Every rule from the International Padel Federation's Rules of Padel in force from 1 January 2026, every number from published match analysis, coaching from named sources such as LTA Padel and The Padel School. The source is named on screen where it is used, and a sources card closes the film.
  • The voice. One calm coach's narration for the whole channel, chapters numbered on screen, padel words said the way players say them: bandeja, víbora, chiquita, por tres, por cuatro, contrapared.

The brief also says what the channel won't do, which matters as much: "Nothing invented: where sources disagree or give no number, the film says less."

A painted padel player reaching up for a bandeja, with two labels on the contact point: forehead height, from The Padel School, and about eye height, from LTA Padel.
Where two coaching sources disagree, the film shows both, each with its name.

Real numbers, drawn

A video model can paint a nice padel court. It can't put the right number on it, with where the number came from. Here each figure is drawn from the episode's fact sheet, and the source line under it says which study it is.

A padel court seen from above in KitCut's painted look, the attack zone at the net highlighted, beside the figure more than 80% of winning points were made from the attack position, with the study named in a source line at the bottom.
The case for the net, from published match analysis.
A 3D padel court with mannequin players at the net, the back third of the court marked usually not on, and a card reading 75 of 1,015 smashes in 8 professional finals were topspin smashes.
Later episodes teach technique on a 3D court, with the numbers beside the player.

When a source only says "usually", the film says "usually" too. The overheads episode divides the court into the zones where each shot is the right answer, and pins a label on the line between them: usually, not always.

A padel court from above divided into three coloured zones labelled bandeja, víbora and smash, with a small label on the border reading usually, not always.
Which overhead answers a lob, by where you meet it.

One long episode, then a week of Shorts

Each long episode is 3 to 8 minutes. Once it is finished, two to five Shorts are cut from it, each one idea from the episode in under a minute, and KitCut schedules them on the channel, one a day at the same hour. That is how a channel with a long film every few days still publishes every day.

Padel Tactics Explained: How Points Are Really WonEpisode 1 · 6:34 · 7,644 viewsPadel Overheads Explained: Bandeja, Víbora or Smash?Episode 2 · 8:01 · 1,940 viewsThe Padel Topspin Smash in 3 MovesShort · 0:45 · 1,253 viewsWhy the Tennis Smash Fails in PadelShort · 0:33 · 912 viewsBandeja, Víbora or Smash? Two Things DecideShort · 0:36 · 604 viewsPadel Smash Explained: How to Hit the Ball Out of the CourtEpisode 3 · 2:43 · 574 viewsOne Grip for the Padel SmashShort · 0:26 · 347 viewsPadel Back Glass Explained: Let the Ball Come to YouEpisode 6 · 3:55 · new

The long episodes don't start from nothing either. Episode 2, for one, was handed three documents: the series' look (the first episode's drawing code, which every episode reuses, so the court, the players and the labels never drift), the facts for this topic with anything unverified marked as such, and the first episode's narration settings, so the narrator sounds the same every time.

A 3D padel court from behind the back glass, a mannequin player turned side-on in the corner, labelled side on, let it pass close by, with the source line naming The Padel School and a 2021 study of professional matches.
Episode 6, the back glass: the corner, and the mistake most players make in it.
The sources card that closes episode 6: LTA Padel, The Padel School, two coaches quoted by Padel Addict, two published studies and the FIP Rules of Padel, over the line every rule, number and coaching point in this film comes from these.
Every episode ends on its sources.

The numbers

On 21 October 2026, YouTube counted 12,690 views across the channel's 16 public videos. Episode 1 has 7,644, episode 2 has 1,940, and three Shorts have between 600 and 1,250 each. The channel is twelve days old.

What made it work

  • The brief carries the series. A new episode's idea is a topic, a fact sheet and an outline. Everything else, from the court's dimensions to the narrator's pace, is already decided.
  • Sources on screen, every time. It's what makes a drawn explainer credible to people who play the sport.
  • Long films feed short ones. One researched episode becomes a week of Shorts at no extra research.
  • The schedule is KitCut's job. Each Short is put on the channel's calendar as it is made, so nobody has to remember to publish.

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