What role does cushioning play and what should it be like in padel shoes?

Cushioning in a paddle player is obviously important as the word indicates that it absorbs that impact. And what we have to take into account is that we always play thinking that the individual is going to have a reaction force from the ground.

Therefore, what we are going to generate are different effects on the body in which we have to minimize or absorb them with the materials of the shoe, in this case, to cause the least possible injuries and not have cumulative effects and more over time. Of the playing time or the time of that individual's sporting life.

So it is important that it has a certain cushioning that always has to be a function of the person's weight and type of play. Another issue that will also determine the cushioning is the speed of the gesture in each phase that the athlete performs, i.e., a jump will offer us cushioning in the heel.

The speed with which the athlete moves forward, that cushioning will be provided by the stabilizing elements of the shoe, the guide and then, obviously, the cushioning that the forefoot may have.