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Mark you vlog is awesome, your footage is great, your humour is hilarious and your so honest… it’s super refreshing so it’d be great to see more like this.
Thanks for letting us live vicariously through your experience!
Great video and superb tips. Please do another video about the quality of the tennis classes. thank you!
Great video and superb tips. Please do another video about the quality of the tennis classes. thank you
Hey Mark, thanks for sharing. It was informative and the cost is good for someone from the States. If you're in an Asian country, the conversion rate is very high and travel expense is even more. Appreciate the reference. Good that you made friends and did your 5.0 level increase? btw, what is your UTR rating?
Mark, seems you are still having some strong jetlag! 😅. You didn't have 11 hours of tennis, you had 11 sessions of 2 hours each, so 22 hours, bringing the cost per hour to 43 euros, which is very competitive compared to what is paid in USA. I noticed you didn't post anything about the proshop that was where Nadal has his private indoor hard court, best proshop I've ever been to. Did you go? liked it? I honestly recommend doing the 3 day package vs the 5.5 days, most people are not fit enough to play so much for so long. That can reduce cost at the academy and allow for more time to travel elsewhere. This is just my perspective though. Thanks for the video, wish I go back sometime! Saludos!
Thanks for this comment and suggestions. It's cleared up a few things
So cool! Great breakdown! Was there today!
Mallorca is one of the best tourist destinations all over the world. A pity you didn't reserve some time for visiting and going to the beach. There are lots of stunning "calas" (sort of little beaches between the mountains and the sea) you maybe shouldn't have skipped.
Yep Cala Saint Vincent’s is beautiful as is Playa Formentor
Brilliant information dude, nice work 👍👍👍
Did you get the results and improvements in your game? I have been to many Academys and found little improvement. My areas for improvement were shot selection, foot work, more consistent back hand. All of these places seemed like a factory that have set drills. Very limited player assessment before you start. Very limited quality coaching or tailored drills to achieve the improvement desired. It is usually best to target your weaknesses with different specific quality coaches. Most coaches want you to improve just enough until the next lesson. Job security.
I went there last year and the hotel+coaching was €1.600. Since the two 2h daily sessions are just 120min apart, I nurtured myself with isotonic drinks and fuel bars. Btw, in my case I had breakfast and dinner included. A different thing is how much I spent at the pro shop. 😅
For necessary items such as a bottle of Gin! 😂😂😂 Great Video Mark, I'd love to visit the academy someday.
Very nice video. Never even considered doing this to improve my fitness and tennis. Spain is amazing. Thanks.
Thanks for letting us live vicariously through your experience
love this breakdown ,mark
Youz high maintenance bro. Glad you had a very enjoyable trip
Very helpful review!!! Very interested in going but how do you get the Iberia flight voucher?
Love the breakdown, Mark.
DJI would fix that drone for way cheaper. Understand if you need to keep filming and holding you over but I busted my mini 2 and it was like $100 to fix the camera, rotors and cowling
Great tips! I’m trying to plan a trip to the Rafa Nadal Academy mainly for my son.
Love the breakdown, Mark
Excellent breakdown. I hear being in a desirable chic party area of Mallorca runs up to 1K a night on some crappy rundown hotel room eesh. Sounds like you got a great deal relatively speaking
Didn't like your reviews and videos but been watching the real tennis channel which I'm enjoying and you seem like a decent enough guy and play some decent ball. I went to the Ferrero academy Equelite, Alcaraz's home base, last year in autumn. Its a lot cheaper but that Iberia voucher sure makes it attractive from the US. Obviously the RN academy is more expensive and more pro, I visited during easter last year, however I really liked the familiar feeling of Equelite. Nearby in Barcelona where I live theres a bunch of academies and the level is so high, however for the whole package and going away for a long weekend Equelite is worth it.
Amazing review💯💯❤
Don’t forget you had tennis lessons… which here in Nj is $125.00 hr .. I think over all it’s a great price considering hotel,lessons,flight ,food .. my question.was the lessons any good.?
Great video and superintendent ideas
Amazing review
600€ for gifts for family and friends, 600€ for gifts for yourself, 600€ for a new drone.... Ok.
5K for everything and all the extra gifts/expenses is very reasonable. I have friends in Mallorca that tell me crappiest hotels by the chic beach locations run at 1K USD a night!!!
Excellent work
Amazing video, very spectacular to watch
Mark, how do you buy these sessions? Do you just go online and do it? Their websites is kinda confusing and doesn't say anything about the flight voucher
Mark Did you have to register your drone? THX
Well played 👏👏
Thanks for sharing this video
Love the break down mark
How did you get this Iberia Voucher? Upon reservation and sent by the academy? Do you know if they still have this agreement?
Good deal Mark, I was in France in 2014 or so and it as $1.40 to get 1 Euro, I spent $22 for a small salad it was crazy. Europeans were coming to USA to go shopping.
It's more like 1.1 exchange rate now. Maybe Europeans didn't like American money in 2014?
Nice explanation
Love your review
I was in Mallorca a couple of weeks ago - I hired a car (Toyota C-HR hybrid) for 4 days for just shy of €100, so it’d probably be around about €130 for 6 days if anyone is wondering. Obviously, if it’s just for one person, you could go for a smaller (and cheaper) car. Island is definitely worth exploring if you ever get the chance.
i dont want to get stabbed...
@@MarkSansait stick to the coastal areas and the only thing stabbing you should be sharp rocks 😅 Or challenge them to a game of tennis instead of a knife fight - the ultimate high stakes match.
I'm a recreational player, 3.5 USTA, and am absolutely in love with tennis and addicted to it. I have the money, but would it even be worth it to go as a tennis 3.5 USTA player? Or is this mainly for people who aspire to actually become PRO.
Me and my wife has visited Nadal academy two times. And I can promise you that you will have a great time. The coaches will put you in a group with players at the same level as you. We had halfboard and we had very nice dinners every evening with people from our group.
You have both the money AND the time, but if you have enough of the first, you might be able to buy the second too...
worth it for improving?, no , you can get to 4.5 just with youtube quite easily if you practice, but if your a big fan, i think its great experience, take that as fun vacation, instead of paying 1.5k to go to the beach, you pay 1.5k to go train tennis in cool place :)
Very nice video great experience 👍👏
This is amazing 😍
Thanks for your video. I have a question. How can I go from airport to the academy? Rent a car? book a transfer or there are trains, bus. Which would you recommend? Thanks.
from the Mallorca airport to the Nadal academy, I took a 45 minute cab ride from the airport. It wasnt Uber or Lyft... there was a taxi area outside of the terminal that took me
Very nice work
This vlog is amazing
One of great player I have ever seen 😍
Were you able to see Nadal while you were there? Is it by any chance that you are of Filipino descent? Is it okay to visit the academy just to tour around and also see the Nadal Museum?
I did see Nadal. Parents are Filipino. You can visit the academy to tour and see the museum, yes
Amazing academy🙌🙌
Very informative video
great work
Good information
That's awesome 💯
Pressing F to pay respect to your drone
Thanks for a very nice video 👏🎾😍
I went last year pretty much same dates, May 15th to 19th, 4 nights. I paid 130 euros per night tax included with breakfast as well. Mark spent 185euros. I did reserve in advance, 6 months before. I'm guessing Mark didn't guess with that much time and thus the much higher cost. I remember having look at cost a couple of months prior to my reservation and they were even less. My room was nicer too vs what he showed. 140usd per night with breakfast in Europe, to me it was very descent cost. The training was basically same cost.
Beautiful performance
Did you have to obtain permission to video or use your drone to film at the academy?
Out standing❤️
I thought the Iberia voucher only applies if you stay in academy hotel for a week? If you choose Airbnb you won’t get the flight voucher
that's right you have to stay at the academy hotel. Not an airbnb.
Beautiful place and view
what about the cost for those 2 girls on the last day while partying ?
😭😭
That's a bargain especially since you have never been to Europe before. Plus you are a huge Nadal fan 🪭.
😂😂😂 LSD at the party too
@@jimclawley9117 mark does LSD ? i had no idea. is LSD PED ?
Did your tennis get 5k better? If so how?
Pretty awesome grounds 😎👌
Very informative
Nice reviews
How good is the coaching there ?
Nice tips
Is the cost for more high performance players higher?
Informative
Assuming you make advertising $ from your KZhead channel On an after tax basis your trip can be about 1/2 to 1/3 cheaper depending on your tax burden. Would recommend forming an LLC and hiring a CPA to advise you on how you can deduct business expenses for the content you’re creating for your business. Disclaimer: This is not tax advice
Strangely sounds like tax advice, though 😂
Great job
The quality of coaching is not related to owners fame! Price is absurd in european standards, you can get same maybe better coaching in any other decent tennis club in EU
Great video 👍
Wonderful academy 👏👏
Telefonica is heavily invested by big asset/corporations companies like, Vanguard, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Caixa Bank and Black Rock.
Good work
Great city of the best moments or member ❤❤
Excellent 👌
Perfect 👍
Amazing!!!
Outstanding
Well played..
Nice performance❤
Really great. Equipment
Well done
Very nice video. 👍👍👍
Nice shots
Excellent
The infrastructure looks amazing 😍
Beautiful
Excellently
Great video
Amazingly
you have good experience
Incredible
More or less than trucky?
Great performance
Excellent 👌👍
What do you mean by “opportunity cost”? Do you not have paid time off at work?
Remember, this is America, where you have to plead and whine to get any time off. European serfdom emigrated and is still alive in the US.