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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Fuelling, Hydration and Recovery for Kickers: The Boring Things That Decide Game Day
Kicking is precision under pressure after a long wait — so dehydration, poor sleep and bad timing hit kickers harder than most. General, practical…
Read more →Common Punting Mistakes: The Drop Is Almost Always the Answer
Most punting faults get diagnosed in the wrong place. The drop errors behind most shanks, the contact and approach mistakes that follow, and why…
Read more →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 →How Long Does It Take to Become a Good Kicker? Honest Timelines
Basic contact takes weeks, mechanics months, consistency a year or two, and range several years. Realistic timelines by component, what changes them, and how…
Read more →Kicking Tee Care and Maintenance: Why Your Tee Is Quietly Changing Under You
A degraded tee presents the ball differently, and equipment drift feels exactly like technique drift from the inside. How tees fail, how to spot…
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 →How to Measure Kicking Progress: The Numbers That Tell You If You Are Actually Improving
Your longest kick is a story; your make rate from 40 is a fact. The six metrics worth tracking, how to test so the…
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 →Video Analysis for Kickers: How to Film Yourself and Actually Learn Something
If you train alone, film is your coach — but only if the angle is right. Where to put the camera, the four frames…
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