Special Teams Explained for Kickers: Understanding the Unit You Play In
You are one of eleven, and the other ten are doing jobs most kickers have never had explained. How the units work, why hang…
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Practical advice on becoming a better kicker — recruiting, mental prep, routines and development.
Football Kicking Camps: How to Choose One, and How to Actually Get Value From It
A good camp compresses six months of trial and error into a weekend; a bad one sells you a ranking. How to tell them…
Read more →Choosing a Kicking Coach: How to Find One, Vet One, and Know When to Leave
The reason you need a coach is that you cannot see your own faults — which makes judging one hard. How to find a…
Read more →Football Kicking Terms: The Glossary That Lets You Follow a Special Teams Meeting
Kicking has its own vocabulary and most of it gets learned by osmosis or not at all. Mechanics, operation, measurements, commonly confused pairs, situational…
Read more →Competing for the Kicking Job: Winning It, Keeping It, and Being the Backup
Football has one kicker, which makes the depth chart a binary most positions never face. What coaches actually decide on, how to compete without…
Read more →The Kicker Tryout: How to Handle the Twenty Minutes That Decide Your Season
A tryout measures predictability, not ceiling. What coaches are actually assessing, how to prepare in two weeks, handling a cold start, and what to…
Read more →How to Become a Better Football Kicker: A Practical Framework
Most plateaus are diagnosis problems, not effort problems. How to find your actual constraint, the order to fix things in, why one change at…
Read more →College Kicker Training Guide: Surviving and Winning the Job
What changes when you arrive at a college programme, why the holder transition catches out capable kickers, how the competition is actually decided, and…
Read more →High School Kicker Training Guide: Four Years, Properly Planned
What to work on in each of four years, what high school coaches actually need, why kickoffs differentiate you, and how to prepare for…
Read more →What Makes a Great Football Kicker?
It is not leg strength and it is not fearlessness. What actually separates great kickers from good ones, why range is among the least…
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