Fake Field Goals and Fake Punts: The Kicker’s Job When the Kick Is Not the Play
The defence is watching you for confirmation a kick is coming — which makes the kicker central to any fake. What your job actually…
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Field goal technique, approach steps, holder timing, accuracy drills and common mistakes to fix.
Bad Snaps and Bad Holds: What to Do in the Half-Second When It Goes Wrong
Teams practise the operation working and almost never practise it failing. How each failure gives you a different amount of warning, when it is…
Read more →Extra Point Kicking: Why the Easiest Kick in Football Is the One That Ends Careers
Make it and nobody notices; miss it and it is the story of the game. Why extra points really miss, how the modern distance…
Read more →How to Long Snap: The Complete Guide to Football’s Most Overlooked Job
Long snappers are chronically undersupplied because almost nobody trains for it. The grip, stance, snap motion, how to get a spiral, and how to…
Read more →How to Hold for Field Goals: The Holder’s Complete Guide
The holder has three tenths of a second to catch, place, spin and steady the ball — and the kicker\u2019s plant foot is calibrated…
Read more →Plant Foot Technique: The Six Inches That Decide Every Kick You Take
More missed kicks trace back to plant foot position than anything else — and it is the one part of the kick you cannot…
Read more →How to Improve Field Goal Accuracy: A Percentage-First Approach
Accuracy is a measured rate, not a feeling. How to track make percentage by distance band, read your miss pattern, measure your angle gap,…
Read more →Field Goal Kicking Technique: The Biomechanics of a Repeatable Strike
Why field goal technique works the way it does — the kinetic chain, the plant leg as pivot, hip rotation as engine, and why…
Read more →Field Goal Approach Steps Explained: The Three-and-Two and Why It Works
The three-and-two is a measuring system for your plant foot, not a magic formula. What the steps actually do, how to set your own,…
Read more →Field Goal Kicking Drills: 10 Drills That Build Make Percentage
Ten field goal drills organised by the fault each one fixes, with standards for when to progress — plus how to diagnose which drill…
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