What You Need To Know About Session Structure And Kick Counts

 

The following is an extract from my book - Kicking Essentials: The Ultimate Guide for Players and Coaches, and addresses some of the confusion that surrounds session structure and kick counts. It seems that one day you hear it's important to be putting in hundreds of kicks per week, yet someone else will say you can get by just fine with a fraction of that. In my experience, the following guidelines

Athlete First. Kicker Second.

 

For this post I want to look at strength development from two different perspectives; firstly, the importance of developing overall strength in order to become a complete athlete, and secondly, a closer look at the specific strength requirements for kicking.

With general athletic conditioning it’s important to note there is a strong relationship between

Perfect One-Step Place Kicking

Was looking through some old footage recently and found this clip of some one-step place kicks. It's a slighlty shorter field than normal, so although I'm just behind half way, its more like 46-47 meters (approx 50yards).

Where Have All The Spirals Gone?

In this post we will be taking a look at two of the most commonly used kicks in the game today, the spiral and drop punt. One travels with beauty and grace covering great distances, while the other possesses pin point accuracy at closer range. With this in mind, we can start to understand that both punts are important and that the type of kick you chose should

Problems With Accuracy? Address Your Non-kicking Side.

Tall Posture, Eyes on Contact, Hips Square, Opposing Shoulder Closed. Quality.

I want to take a look at the role and importance of our non-kicking side during both punting and place-kicking. So often I see kickers young and old whose non-kicking side seems to almost fall asleep when executing a kick. When the kicking leg side dominates and takes over the body it results in a loss of control, balance and