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Hosted by Dan Grant · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 17 episodes
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The world’s most serious podcast about the world’s least serious sports.Ballslapping is THE podcast for anyone who’s ever slapped a ball and called it sport. Hosted by Dan Grant and a rotating crew of co-hosts, we dive into the gloriously weird world niche balls. We chat to champions, eccentrics, and total unknowns keeping these glorious games alive. If it involves smacking a ball with your hand, a racket or something improvised in a car park—we’re into it. It’s sweaty, silly, surprisingly moving, and absolutely slaps. New eps 2 weekly (unless we're playing). Sister YouTube & Ig = BallSlaps
Dan Grant hosts Ball Slapping, a sports show with 17 episodes published.
This week on Ball Slapping, Dan Grant sits down with the founders of Bishball , one of Britain's newest and most exciting emerging sports.Combining fast reactions, teamwork and spectacular rallies, Bishball takes inspira
This week on Ball Slapping, Dan Grant is joined by Jared Robinson and the team behind one of the UK's most exciting new premium indoor padel club. Tom and Louis are leading the development of Rulo , a brand-new indoor pa
🎾 Why is squash declining while padel is booming? In this episode of the Ball Slapping Podcast, Dan Grant and Jared Robinson sit down with former professional squash player and padel industry leader Roxy Keshavarz. Roxy
🎾 Why do some padel clubs thrive while others struggle? In this episode of the Ball Slapping Podcast, Daniel Grant and Jared Robinson sit down with Phil Cornhill, Director of Clubs at UK Padel, to uncover what really ma
Padel is exploding across the UK and Europe… but why is everyone suddenly obsessed? In this episode of Ball Slapping, we’re joined by Jared Robinson, former UK Top 10 padel player, coach, and founder of AllCourtPadel. Fr
What does it actually take to grow sport in the UK?In this episode, I sit down with Alex Cole, who went from dreaming of leading Sport England at 15 to working inside the system itself. We get into grassroots sport, fund
What do you get when you mix a U.S. President, a bad back, and a medicine ball? Hoover Ball. In this episode I sit down with Quentin Hick, President of Hoov Nation, to unpack one of the most underrated and surprisingly i
In this episode of Ball Slapping, we sit down with Rashid Ahmad, founder of Touchtennis, to unpack how a simple idea in his garden turned into a fast-growing global sport.We talk about where Touchtennis came from, why it
In this episode of Ball Slapping, Dan heads to the Rugby Fives National Singles Finals to interview the best players in the country and to work out what makes them tick. We talk with current and previous National Champio
In this episode of Ball Slapping, Dan and Christian sit down with Phil (Felipe Borges), the founder of Tens Finest, the number one street media brand for the sport of Handball. We talk about how Tens Finest started, what
Join us from Mexico City as we attend (and play in) the 2025 World Frontball Championships. We'll be joined by co-host Danielle Daskalakis - one of the best female handball athletes of all time, as we check out the event
Gaz and Dan hop back to 2009 — Portland, Oregon — for a trip down memory lane. It’s the World Handball Championships, where legends were made, friendships were forged, and the nights were almost as wild as the games. Exp
We’re back — and this time, it’s all about Rugby Fives! 🧤 Ball Slaps hits the courts at the Rugby Fives London Open, one of the sport’s biggest and most historic tournaments. Host Dan Grant dives into the action, catchi
Ball Slaps goes international! 🇪🇸 In this special live episode, we head to Tavernes Blanques just outside Valencia for the 1Wall World Tour Spanish Open. Joined by co-host Christian Blackaby, we soak up the sunshine, t
This week we’ve got the legend himself — Dan Tristao. He’s the current no.1 in Rugby Fives and one of the greatest players the game’s ever seen. We chat about how he first got hooked, his cheekiest wins, favourite memori
In this episode of Ball Slapping, Dan and Gareth sit down with Camden Riviere — the current World Number 1 and defending World Champion in Real Tennis (also known as Court Tennis or Royal Tennis or Jeu de Paume). Camden
Welcome to the first ever episode of Ball Slapping—a podcast about the weird and wonderful world of ball sports where you hit things with your hands, a racket, or sometimes a frying pan. Dan Grant and Gareth Price dive i
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