● The club, located in Madrid, continues its growth and presents its own high-performance academy.
● The project, named LVP Competition, brings together a technical team with extensive experience and is committed to a comprehensive methodology to develop high-level and professional talent.
● The academy is born with an international vocation, expanding into territories such as the United States and aiming in the medium term to train a future world top ten player, with Fran Moreno as a key figure in the project and a candidate to become one of the reference coaches in international padel.
● Young talents such as Susana Martín, Unax Arranz and Blanca Arriola join the academy.
La Vida Padel presents “La Vida Padel Competition”, a professional padel academy focused on high performance with the goal of training top-level players, young talents, and professionals through a 360º model that combines technique, tactics, specific physical preparation, and competitive guidance.
The project is launched with the ambition of becoming a benchmark in player development within the padel ecosystem, one of the fastest-growing sports worldwide.
At the head of La Vida Padel are José Barranco and Ricardo de las Heras. Richi is a former player and a well-known figure in padel both on the 20×10 court and in the business world. With a career that combines competition, entrepreneurship, and sports management, he has led the expansion of La Vida Padel and is also co-founder of the Hexagon Cup, an innovative team padel competition that has strengthened the sport’s ecosystem in Spain and internationally.
Richi expressed his excitement about the project:
“This academy is the beginning of something big. Who knows, maybe in three or four years we’ll develop a future world top ten player. We have the best tools to achieve that, and we have Fran Moreno, who I’m sure can become one of the leading padel coaches in the world. La Vida Padel Competition begins its journey and we are convinced it will be a great success. With international expansion on the horizon, this academy will lay the sporting foundations of La Vida Padel’s global project.”
To start this journey, they have surrounded themselves with key figures from the world of racket sports, forming a technical team with extensive experience in competition and training. The staff is led by experienced sporting director Fran Moreno, accompanied by Rubén Gómez, Spanish doubles champion and former top ten player on the Padel Pro Tour circuit, as well as Chema Montes, a coach with more than 30 years of experience and trainer of professional players. The technical staff also includes Cándido J. Alfaro, a former World Padel Tour professional player.
Another key pillar of the project is its scholarship and support program, designed to promote young talent through full scholarships, partial scholarships, and specific plans for international players looking to establish their training base in Spain.
The project already includes young athletes directly linked to La Vida Padel Competition, including Claudia Escacena, Mónica Gómez, and Jimena Díaz de la Iglesia, as well as highly promising players with strong achievements such as Susana Martín, Spanish, European, and World Champion in the cadet category; Unax Arranz, Spanish champion in the Benjamín, Alevín, and Cadet categories; and Blanca Arriola, junior world runner-up and winner of several FIP tournaments, including FIP Bronze Finland II, FIP Bronze Confapi Piacenza, and FIP Bronze Castellón II, among others.
An Academy for Everyone
However, La Vida Padel Competition goes much further, as it is designed to be an academy for everyone: from those taking their first steps in padel to players with professional ambitions.
The methodology is structured and 360º, designed to maximize each player’s potential through an integrated plan that includes stroke technique, on-court tactics, specific movement training, physical preparation, and mental work.
Training is also designed to closely replicate real competition situations, ensuring that the goal is not only to train well but to compete better, with personalized plans that evolve according to each player’s goals.
The academy is structured into programs adapted to different levels:
- Advanced amateurs looking to improve through professional methodology
- Junior academy (ages 10–17) with competitive projection
- High-level academy for licensed players and national circuit competitors
- Professional program for international circuit players and promising talents