How can you self diagnose your kick? · KICKERSCAMP: Kicking Skool

How can you self diagnose your kick?

You head out to kick, by yourself, and you start missing kicks. How can you figure out what's going on without having a full time kicking coach?

Stop whatever you're doing, and do this one drill about 5 times in a row...

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POST DRILL DIAGNOSIS YT Description:

Kickers often train by themselves without much guidance. When you start making mistakes, you wonder what's going wrong. THE POST DRILL is a good way to begin to figure out your swing mechanics and what helps (or hurts) your chances for success. How? Because you will see very clearly in which direction you miss most often.

THE DRILL: Set up your tee 7 yards from the end of the goal post. Use a kicking tee or wizard and aim directly at the post. You WANT TO HIT IT. And you should! However, that's hard to do. You could miss left, right or low.

For a right-footed kicker, missing way left of the post is a hook or duck hook. Normally, this means one of 3 things: 1) you're hitting the ball with your in-step instead of at or near the 3rd Eyelet of your shoe. 2) you're finishing with your shoulders opened up wide to the left. 3) you finish your swing with your plant foot far to the left of the tee.

If you are missing to the right, that's a push or a shank. What this normally means is: 1) your foot lock out at contact is "flimsy". You may be hitting the ball with your toe or you ankle just isn't firm when making contact. 2) Your plant foot is facing exactly in the direction you just kicked it. That plant needs to be strong and facing almost directly at your target.

If you are missing low,: 1) you hitting too high on the ball 2) you aren't going down through the ball well enough... think of a chip shot in golf. To get the ball to go up, you need to hit down, not try to scoop it or lift it. Let the angle of your contact foot provide the lift you want to hit the crossbar. 🏈

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