The Most Intriguing Thing You'll Likely See at RacquetX This Week
This could change everything for U.S. padel...
Editor’s Note: On January 5th, 2026, I officially launched Padel Nation. That very same day I received a somewhat unusual message from someone with a somewhat unusual name on LinkedIn.
Exactly one month and a day later, I was headed to Goshen, Indiana (in the dead middle of winter, no less) to check out what I now believe could potentially change the U.S. padel landscape forever.
This is the story of what happened — and is about to happen. And if you’re one of the thousands of people attending RacquetX in Fort Lauderdale, FL, this week, here’s why you might want to pay attention.
So, let’s just say I get a whole lot of people in the padel world reaching out to me all the time via LinkedIn, Instagram, e-mail, and every other sort of medium.
Not because I’m important… or influential… or able to actually do anything for them, mind you.
But simply because I try to pay attention to what’s going on around me in this space and then write about it as much as I can. Which, I guess, makes people think I’m important… and influential… and able to actually do things for them.
Maybe that’s what Brevin Bennett thought when he reached out to me back on January 5th to tell me about Off the Glass, the new 100% vertically integrated U.S. padel court manufacturing and installation company that he and his partner Len Morris had just co-founded.
But something felt decidedly different about Brevin’s message. There was none of the familiar desperation. None of the slick salesmanship. And most importantly to me, none of the used-car-salesman pushiness.
Instead, he just sent an honest message and a request to connect.
It felt a little bit like getting a note from Steve Jobs in the early-to-mid 1990s via Prodigy, CompuServe, or America Online saying, “Hey, I see you’re pretty into computers and I have something I’m working on that I’d like to tell you more about if you have time.”
In that initial message, Brevin also laid out one of his main mantras in life, which is that he’s always seeking to:
“Do Cool Things With Good People.”
(Well said, Brevin — as am I!)
So, I immediately responded to him, and one month later, after a brief detour to explore Chicago’s burgeoning padel scene, I found myself in front of an ominous looking industrial warehouse in Northern Indiana.
Inside was the panoramic padel court you see above along with a pretty heavy-hitting roster of U.S. padel insiders including:
Brittany Dubins, who is the currently the highest ranked U.S. padel pro in the world (and is now officially sponsored by Off the Glass)…
Bruce Townsend, who opened one of the the first-ever U.S. padel courts inside a mall in Connecticut…
Tito Moreno, a true OG of the U.S. padel world, who is behind padel projects like AMET International, Urban Padel, and Wakit Rakit among many others…
Pascal Collard of the Mouratoglou Academy and Bryan Ogle of CourtsApp, and…
Andrew Won of Blanca Padel (for whom Brevin has cooked up something extra special to unveil at RacquetX this week — so be sure to drop by Booth #107 to check it out).
How’d They Get Here and Why’d We Go There?
One of the very first things Brevin tells me when we initially speak is that he’s taken a “non-traditional” path in life.
He didn’t go to college. Or grad school. Or do any of the other things so many young people here in the U.S. are “supposed” to do in order to be successful.
Instead, he focused on learning a trade inside and out. Namely, manufacturing — which, as you might imagine, is a pretty crucial component of what Off the Glass (OTG) is doing.
(It also allowed Brevin to become the CEO of Triton Metal Products for nearly five years at an age when most young people are still working their way through school or paying off student loans.)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Brevin’s long-time mentor and OTG co-founder, Len Morris — who is also the founder of high-end, modern stair and railing company Viewrail — comes from a manufacturing background, as well.
When I ask Brevin how they initially met, he tells me:
“I first learned about Viewrail — and Len — in 2020. At the time, Viewrail was growing rapidly and quickly becoming recognized as one of Indiana’s premier manufacturing organizations.
Some companies hang their core values on a wall. Viewrail lived theirs. You could see it in how they treated customers, suppliers, competitors, and their community. Even people outside of Viewrail spoke about the company’s culture with respect.
I was in awe of what Len had built, both internally and externally. And as I stepped deeper into the metal fabrication space, I sent Len a message on LinkedIn asking if I could tour the facility. He graciously said yes.
From the sheer volume of production, to the design innovation, to the internally developed automation systems, I walked away thinking: this is the big leagues of manufacturing. It raised my standard.
Len and I stayed loosely connected for the next year or so. Then one day, a very wise man shared this advice with me: “Honor the wisdom of those ahead of you and pursue it with humility.”
Not long after, I found myself [reaching back out to] Len — this time asking not for a tour, but [instead] for mentorship.
Years later, I can honestly say I have never been more consistently challenged, humbled, sharpened, and encouraged than I have through Len’s wisdom and leadership. He has a rare ability to push you toward excellence while grounding you in faith and character.
That mentorship has been one of the greatest gifts of my professional life.”
The Why Behind the How
When I further ask Brevin how he and Len got connected to the world of padel in Indiana (which only very recently got its first-ever padel club) he starts off by telling me, “Len and I share a passion to solve big problems…”
From there we delve into the major problem they are looking to solve in the U.S. padel industry. Namely, the fact that almost all padel court manufacturers are located overseas — which means that, up until now, U.S. padel clubs operators have been forced to:
Pay significant fees for the courts to be transported across the ocean on container ships and then often pay additional tariffs depending on where the courts are coming from…
Wait weeks — or sometimes even months — for courts (or replacement parts) to cross the Atlantic or Pacific, get unloaded at a port, and ultimately be delivered to their final destination, and…
Navigate the hassle of finding qualified installers to actually construct the courts once they arrive.
Meanwhile, OTG prides themselves on the fact that they can build a court in less than two weeks, and then have it delivered to any of the expert steel-and-glass structure installation teams that Viewrail has stationed all across the country within days, not weeks.
So, perhaps it’s no surprise that when another company that was supposed to provide a padel court for this week’s RacquetX conference couldn’t get it shipped from Spain in time, the organizers reached out to Brevin to see if he could provide a second OTG court at a moment’s notice.
Having gotten to know Brevin a little bit, I’m sure his answer was something along the lines of a casual, “Sure, no problem.” Which is why, if you attend Racquet X this week you’ll get so see not just one, but two, of OTG’s signature courts, including their:
OTG-1X model — a true panoramic court (with no corner posts whatsoever) that is wind-load rated to 170 mph, and their…
OTG-C5 — a court that is designed to withstand Category 5 hurricanes and carries a 215 mph wind-load rating.
Oh, and on one of these two RacquetX courts they’ll also be unveiling something pretty stunning that stopped us all in our tracks when they first showed it to us in Indiana. Trust me, you’ll know it when you see it.
1 + 1 + 1 + Brittany Dubins = 56+ (and Counting)
I won’t lie, when I first arrived in Goshen I had my doubts about what I’d find there, and if it would ultimately be worth my time.
Furthermore, I received more than a few snarky comments from what I assume are low-level competitors and general detractors when I first mentioned my investigative trip to Goshen on LinkedIn.
But, in the less than 24 hours I spent there, it became abundantly clear that if there are two things that Brevin and Len are experts in, they are steel and glass.
(In fact, in 2025 alone, Viewrail produced over 3.8 million pounds of glass, and with the addition of OTG, that number will jump to nearly 5 million in 2026.)
Of course, in addition to steel and glass, high-quality turf is key (as a local club I play at just learned the hard way), which is why OTG has partnered with the industry leaders at Real Turf.
And given that Brevin and Len are the first to admit they’ll never know as much about the sport of padel as they do the components that go into a court, it also seems smart that they chose to work closely with Brittany Dubins to perfect their court design.
As Brevin tells me:
“It was important for us to understand what was most important to the player at the professional level, and Brittany delivered valuable insight.
Additionally, we have assembled an advisory board, made up of industry professionals, club operators, and professional players, to help guide OTG on product design and strategy. This team will be announced at RacquetX.”
Brevin also reports that in just the first two weeks following the “official” OTG launch I attended, they were contracted to build and install 56 total courts (both indoor and outdoor) in the first half of 2026 in states including Florida, Texas, Indiana, New York, and California.
The Final Verdict
I’ll be the first to admit I’m no expert when it comes to padel courts.
I’ve played on a few I love (including our original court in South Carolina), plenty I like just fine, and a few I’m sure everyone who sets foot on agrees are total garbage.
Obviously, I wouldn’t be writing this if I didn’t enjoy playing on OTG’s model court in Indiana — but, if you’re at RacquetX, you should really stop by and judge for yourself.
At the end of the day what ultimately sold me on Brevin and Off the Glass was that Brevin didn’t try to sell me or any of us on Off the Glass (despite the fact he was obviously incredibly proud of what they’d built).
Rather than telling us how great their court was, he instead just asked for everyone’s honest advice and insights on how they could make it better and kept telling us, “I want this first court to be the worst one we ever produce.”
Much like the big surprise OTG will be unveiling in Fort Lauderdale, you definitely don’t see that every day.
So, if you’re at RacquetX this week, I’d encourage you to go have a look. It just might be the most intriguing thing you see while you’re there.
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