Kicking Articles
Practical guidance on technique, training, and equipment for kickers and parents.
Bone Used In Kicking A Football
Bone Used In Kicking A Football I'm going to revisit a topic we first brought up in a blog post back in 2013 because the question comes up every single lesson I teach. What is [...]
What is a football kicking holder?
Football Kicking Holders: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why Kickers mostly train on their own, well, almost all the time. The human holder (player who catches the snap and holds the football for them [...]
How to stop hooking kicks
How to stop hooking kicks One of the most common issues with field goal kicking that I see with kickers is the propensity to 'hook' the kick. Whether I'm working with a beginner or an [...]
Kicking Confidence
Kicking Confidence As the saying goes in just about any sport (or task for that matter), athletes can be their own worst enemies when it comes to performance. Like many other individual skilled movements (tennis [...]
How to Kick a Football Accurately
How to Kick a Football Accurately There are so many goals a kicker tries to accomplish with one kick, whether it be height, distance, accuracy, etc. One of the most difficult aspects to master is [...]
How To Step Back For Field Goals
How to Step Back for Field Goals In this post, I'm going to address something that seems so fundamental to most kickers that they don't give it a second thought. However, do this incorrectly, and [...]
Staight Leg & Toe Followthrough
Working Toward Straight Leg, Straight Toe Remember, straight leg, straight toe. If there is one thing I see more than anything else with beginners and advanced alike, it's the compression of the body during a [...]
How To Kick Field Goals
How To Kick Field Goals It seems like there is a 'how to' website for just about anything one could possibly want to learn these days including how to kick field goals. Indeed, there is [...]
Georgia Tech Kicking Records Broken Again
Georgia Tech Kicker Harrison Butker is in the company, not surprisingly, of Tech’s greatest kickers. Prior to Saturday, he was tied at 299 with Scott Sisson, who will be forever remembered for his game-winner against [...]
How To Practice Kicking Field Goals
How To Practice Kicking Field Goals Practice can be tough as a kicker. It's a lonely enough to practice by yourself in-season when your teammates are often on another part of the field or on [...]