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The project launched by Nadal celebrates a decade and currently offers training programs for all ages
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You can spend a week exercising in double sessions, with nutritional treatments, a physical trainer and a physiotherapist
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You have 45 courts on which to improve your game on both clay and hard surfaces
It is estimated that in Spain about three million people are tennis fans and they practice it in an assiduous way. Racquet sports are one of the most popular sports among young and old. Not in vain, of those three million fans, more than 80,000 are federated.
It is not surprising then that the Rafa Nadal Academy tends to be almost full in the low season and is full in the high season. There, as they indicate from their own offices, the fans feel like true professionals.
Because the project created by Rafa Nadal and his team, which started a decade ago (the first stone was laid in November 2014 and in 2016 it opened its doors to the public), is not focused only on the youngest, the generation of professional talent. Far from it, although diamonds have already been polished there like Casper Ruud, 143 in the world when he arrived in 2018 and finalist at Roland Garros and US Open four years laterwhen it also reached number 2 in the ATP.
There, just half an hour from Palma’s Son Sant Joan airport, in an impressive complex dedicated to the world of racquets, there is a place for all tennis fans who, in one way or another, want to enjoy their passion in some facilities worthy of any great club in the world.
Playing on the court next to Rafa
In the tennis city that Rafa has built in his native Manacor, one can play on any of its 45 courts (19 outdoor fast surfaces, 15 outdoor clay courts, four indoor hard courts and seven more semi-indoor clay courts). A luxury for any racket lover, who can also see how Rafa himself is training on the next court or, two further away, the junior world number 1.
Overhead view of the Rafa Nadal AcademyRNA facilities
To live this experience, the Rafa Nadal Academy has various training programs focused on all profiles that may be interested in improving their tennis. For adults, specifically, they have a high intensity program taught by the academy coaches under the technical direction of Toni Nadal, Rafa’s uncle and former coach. His main objectives are to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of the player, improving his tennis performance and physical condition.
This program lasts six days, during which the protagonist can feel like a true professional tennis player by having, in addition to all the facilities purely related to tennis, a hotel room in the same complex, spa, fitness center, relaxation rooms and three restaurants set at Roland Garros, Us Open and RNS Club House.
But to have the complete experience one cannot stop only with sports. Therefore, during these programs you can also have access to nutrition, physical preparation or physiotherapy services. As if you were within the ATP ranking itself.
The training system that they propose to you in this particular Balearic tennis city is based on the experience acquired by Rafa Nadal and his technical team during all his years on the professional circuit, as well as the time in which the tennis player from Manacor grew up to play against the greatest.
Namely: double daily training sessions in which the morning is used to improve the technical execution of the different shots and the afternoon to work on the tactical game, emphasizing positioning on the court, directions, neutral-construction, attack, defense and counterattack.
In an attempt to complete the training experience as if the client were a professional, real tactical competition situations are also simulated in order to learn how to approach the decisive points in a match. In this complete program Technique, tactics and winning mentality will be worked on in an integrated manner. Training is carried out with a maximum of four players per court and coach.
At the Rafa Nadal Academy you can breathe good tennis wherever you go. You only have to take a look at the team in charge of the project to realize that Rafa is the soul of the place, but he has also surrounded himself with the cream of the racket. Together with him they work side by side his uncle Toni, Carlos Costa and Carlos Moyá, in the more institutional part, while the technical team is made up of figures closely related to the professional circuit such as Marc Górriz, Gabriel Urpí or Gustavo Marcaccioformer players; Joan Bosch, former coach of Carlos Moyá; either Joel Figuerasformer coach of Carlos Costa or Roberto Carretero among others.
A corner of the Rafa Nadal museum AcademyRNA
But what would be so much training and so much improvement if there is no time to put all that knowledge into practice? Well, Rafa also gives you that possibility, since in the academy Both amateur and professional tournaments are organized, framed in the ITF circuit.
Marc Górriz himself, head of tennis at the academy, summarizes the atmosphere that exists there among the adults who decide to try it: “The adults who come are eager to improve their tennis, but also to enjoy the experience of spending a few days at Rafa’s house.. “You can see that they arrive with a lot of enthusiasm and that they do not lose it at any time.”
And if anyone falls apart, they can also try the beach volleyball court, the 7-a-side football court, the cross fit gym, the semi-Olympic pool, paddle tennis, squash, yoga, Pilates or take a tour of the museum. in which heThere are the 22 Grand Slams conquered by Nadal as well as other jewels related to the world of sports such as an Alonso Formula 1, a Marc Márquez jumpsuit, Pau Gasol sneakers or an exclusive Roger Federer kit.
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2024-03-31 05:01:21
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