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 →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 →A kicking net roughly triples how many kicks you get per session. The three types, six nets compared, how to anchor one so it…
Read more →Most kickers know dozens of drills and have no template for using them. A full session structure, why the order matters, three session types,…
Read more →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 →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 →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 →Most long attempts miss short, not wide — a trajectory problem rather than a power one. What changes at the edge of your range,…
Read more →Power is force applied quickly, and kicking gives you a tenth of a second. Rate of force development, the elastic component, why hamstrings cap…
Read more →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 →A practice tee takes a thousand strikes a season and gets left on fields. Why height still comes first, what durability actually means, and…
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