House rules
Not the rules of padel — those are on the wall of every club. These are the ones nobody writes down and everybody notices when you break them. A copy goes in the box with every FX-1.
You call your own out.
Your side of the net, your call. If you have to think about it twice, it was in.
Say the score out loud, before you serve.
Every point. It costs you two seconds and it ends every argument before it starts.
Warm up first. Your elbow keeps the receipt.
Ten minutes now is cheaper than three months off the court later.
The wall is the same wall for both of you.
It is not bad luck. It is the game. Learn it and it starts working for you.
Do not smash at someone who started last month.
Winning a point that way is not winning. Play the gap, not the person.
Whoever books, plays. Whoever cancels, calls.
A message at eleven at night on the day itself is not a cancellation, it is an announcement.
Leave the court the way you found it.
Glass clean, sand swept, gate closed, balls out of the corners. Thirty seconds, all four of you.
One racket a year is plenty.
Buy less, play more. We would rather sell you one racket you keep than three you replace.