18 Jun 10 How to Kick a Football Farther!
Every week I hear “What can my son do to strengthen his leg and kick a football farther?” Today I’m going to give you a few tips to help improve your kicking and punting distance. Contrary to popular belief, kicking a football far is not necessarily due to a ’strong leg’ but more commonly it is due to a ‘fast leg’ and precise ball striking. One of the easiest ways to immediately improve your distance is to work on striking the ball’s sweet spot with the correct part of your foot. You want to hit the ball with the upper instep of your foot (right at the second shoelace loop from the top of most soccer cleats). If you strike the ball down by your toe or on the middle/side of your foot you’re going to lose a ton of power! You also want to make sure your ankle and knee are ‘locked’ at impact. If you keep your leg or foot loose at impact you will severely cut down your power. In field goal kicking, punting, and kickoffs you want the ball to explode off your foot. See below for two excellent videos that will help you understand the above points.
To improve your leg speed there’s several things you can do and here’s a couple quick tips that will help you:
- Isometric Resistance Band Training (builds the fast-twitch muscle fibers)
- Sprinting short distance (20 to 30 yard wind sprints)
- Improving Flexibility/Stretching (allows your leg to snap through quicker)
- Leg swing motion in shallow end of pool (water resistance improves balance and speed)
Here’s 2 free instructional videos on our YouTube page that will help you with precision and power and kick the football farther. For detailed training tips, practice routines, kicking and punting fundamentals, techniques, mental training tips and more check out the Complete Guide to Kicking & Punting Book!
Tags: Football Kicker Workout, Kicking Instruction, Kicking Training, Kicking Video
08 Feb 10 Football Kickers Improve Mental Game By Bowling
If you’re a kicker, you know that sometimes the biggest game on Friday night isn’t played on the field; it’s played in your head! The mental kicking game can sometimes be more challenging than being able to kick a 40 yard field goal. Most of us have grown up playing team sports whether it’s Pop Warner Football, Little League Baseball, or Youth Soccer; we’ve all done it. Team sports are great character builders and help you learn how to communicate and work with other people. Kicking however is a completely different experience. As a kicker, it’s just you and you! Over the years I’ve learned a few great individual sports that have helped me as well as some of my students tackle the mental game of kicking. Here’s one sport that will significantly help you stay calm under pressure on Friday night when faced with that last second game-winning field goal opportunity!
Not only is bowling extremely fun, but it can be an excellent tool to help you learn to stay consistent and prolong a streak. A kicker hopes to make every field goal and extra point he tries. A bowler attempts to throw a strike and not leave an open frame by at least getting a spare each time. Doing either is very difficult. A bowler lines up every shot with his eyes, aligns his body, sets his feet, and attempts to replicate the same motion and result one after another (just as a football kicker tries to strike the ball cleanly every time). A bowler has to stare down that long alley, just him, the ball, and the pins. Sound familiar to a kicker? It should! We kickers have to stare at that goalpost, get our body set, approach the football, and deliver a precise kick through those goalposts! Where the learning experience comes in is how you capitalize on your streak, but more importantly how you rebound from your failure. If you start your game off with a gutter ball, are you going to pout, quit, and not care about the rest of the game? If you miss your first extra point in the game, what do you do? You have to rebound!
Being a kicker is all about handling the adversity, riding your ‘hot streak’ as long as you can, and being able to shake off those disappointing misses immediately. Let bowling help challenge you to build a streak of no open frames just as you should challenge yourself to make every kick taken. Set a goal for yourself like ‘I want to be able to make 10/10 extra points or 5/5 40 yard field goals in today’s practice’ or if bowling ‘I want to finish out this game with 3 strikes and end my game on a positive note!’ I assure you that if you start bowling, even if it’s once every couple weeks, and setting goals for your kicking; your mental toughness will improve and you’ll handle that weird feeling (when your legs feel rubbery) with much more ease. Just do me a favor and get yourself some exercise and put down the Wii Bowling and go bowling with some friends at a real bowling alley!
Tags: Field Goal, Football, Kicker, Kicking, Kicking Training, Mental Game
31 Jan 10 How to Strengthen Your Kicking Muscles and Kick Farther
I highly recommend all of my kicking students to strengthen their hip flexor muscles and kicking muscles. It’s important to stay healthy and injury free and a great way to do this is to strengthen your hip flexors, quadriceps, and hamstrings muscles. Speaking from experience, I know how important it is to train your hip flexor muscles. At a kicking workout I tore my hip flexor and it is a hard injury to recover from! Please reference the following resources that will help you train for kicking, strengthen your muscles to prevent injury, and increase your kicking power.
Athletic Quickness: “Kick Farther and Run Faster Training Program”
Why Buy: To strengthen your hip flexor muscles and help increase the ‘fast-twitch’ muscle fiber speed of your legs. This can help contribute to a faster kicking leg and improved power as you kick field goals, kickoff, or punt. If you want to kick longer field goals, kickoffs, or punts; I recommend picking up this program!
Price: $27.95
Kicking World: “Complete Guide to Kicking & Punting”
Why Buy: This is a complete book to help teach you everything you need from kicking fundamentals, techniques, form, practice routines, training program, weightlifting program, strength & speed tips, kicking equipment suggestions, and mental game preparation. This book is loaded with everything you need to take your kicking and punting performance to a whole new level!
Price: $19.95
Tags: Football Kicking, Kicker, Kicking Book, Kicking Training, Punter
14 Jul 08 Free Kicking Training Forum Available for You!
Have you been searching the internet for free kicking tips and kicking videos or pictures of how to kick or punt? Have you been wondering where you can go to ask professional NFL kickers and punters how they do things or ask for their advice on kicking topics? Ever wonder if you could exchange ideas with other kickers or maybe meet a kicking buddy to workout with? Check out the New Kicking World.com Forum Check out our free Kicking Forum today which enables you to message other users, post questions, reply to questions, comments, answer poll questions, and even WIN Contests and Prizes and free gear just for participating! Registration is free and all you need to do is create a username and password. I look forward to seeing you on the new forum. Good Luck in your upcoming kicking and punting season! -Coach Brent
Tags: Kicking Training, Kicking World
11 May 08 How To Train For Kicking
Many of my students have asked me “How do I train to be a better kicker or punter?” There are several tools available to help take your kicking performance to a whole new level. Everyone knows that kicking field goals and punting more, attending football kicking camps, and weightlifting and running is a good start, but what else can you do?
A very important thing to realize is where your power comes from. Most people think just go ahead and pump up your leg and you will get stronger and kick longer field goals and higher and longer punts. That is not necessarily true. Your “core” is extremely important. The core is comprised of your abdominal (ab) muscles, both upper, middle, lower, and obliques (sides). It is very important to work these muscles. You work them when you kick, but that is not enough. You need to be doing swiss ball work and leg pulls and leg lifts. I talk more in depth about the exact exercises and drills you can in and demonstrate them with pictures in my complete kicking and punting guide found on www.kickingworld.com
Another way to build your kicking body is to work on balance exercises. As seen in one of the above pictures, you can do balance drills on boso balls as well as utilize medicine balls to learn stability and develop your supporting muscles in the kicking or punting leg swing. do encourage weightlifting in the gym, but so many people do not know the way to weightlift as a kicker. If you go do squats, power cleans, lifts, and bench presses, and think you are helping your kicking career, well you are missing a LOT! You are NOT a lineman or a running back. You are a specialist, and there is much more specialized gym exercises you need to be doing which I explain exactly how to do with pictures in the Kicking World: Complete Guide to Kicking & Punting
Tags: Football Kicker Workout, Kicking Book, Kicking Training
12 Feb 08 Kicking Equipment at Wizard Kicking
I just bought all of my new equipment for 2008 from Mike at www.wizardkicking.com I thought I’d share you pictures of my football camp and football lesson equipment and training tools for the new season. If you need anything from kicking shoes to tees or footballs, visit Wizard Kicking.com or call him at 888-964-5425! Tell them that Brent from Kicking World sent you. Kicking World has a lot of camps planned for 2008 so it was important for me to get up to date with all of the new innovative equipment out there. I know that with the use of new technology and my teaching expertise, your kicking and punting skills will take off in 2008! Give us a call at 619-564-1333 or visit us online at www.kickingworld.com
Kicking World provides personalized kicking & punting camps, kicking lessons, and kicking instruction for kickers and punters focusing on Southern California. We specialize in working with kickers and punters aging from 9 to 18 and also work with many OCJAAF (Orange County Junior All American Football) Teams, as well as Pop Warner football programs. High School Kickers and Youth Football kickers and punters rely on us for expert instruction, given in a professional & fun atmosphere that helps foster the growth of their ability whether it be 
mental or physical. We will help you get stronger, more consistent, get more height on your ball, and get to the next level! Give Kicking World a try by visiting us online at www.kickingworld.com or calling us direct at 619-564-1333 to speak with Coach Brent.
06 Dec 07 Kicking and Punting Book!
Do you want to improve your accuracy? How about your distance? What about your hang time and height? These are all common goals of kickers and punters. We’ve written the BEST kicking guide book that will dramatically improve your technique, form, and results for a more consistent, straighter, and longer kick or punt. If you want to be the BEST, learn from the BEST. ORDER the ‘Complete Guide to Kicking & Punting’ Today!
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· Fundamentals of Placekicking
· The Soccer-Style Form
· Extra Points and Field Goals
· Kickoffs and Onsides Kicks
· Punting Situational Drills
· Punting Form, Technique, Hang
· Drills and Skills for mastery
· How to get the optimal ball flight
*Bonus: The ‘Mental Game’
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Tags: Field Goal, Football Kicker Workout, Kicking Book, Kicking Training
29 Nov 07 Kicking Camps With Personalized Instruction
At Kicking World.com we feel that if you want to be the best, you need to put in the effort year round, not just 3 months out of the year. This means you need to keep your body in optimal condition by weight-training, running, swimming, etc. The time you put in off the field is crucial to your success come game time. With this being said, the most vital component to your success as a kicker is receiving personalized kicking instruction weekly.
In your first personalized kicking session with Kicking World, we break down your technique from steps, to approach, to contact, and follow through. Every aspect of your kicks is analyzed and critiqued. After a thorough observation of your kicking performance, we will go over with you what good and what bad techniques you posses. From here, we are able to work on your personalized kicking plan, and set target goals as to where you should be able to get to in the coming weeks. Our goal is to help you become a smarter, stronger, more consistent kicker.
Your kicks will be charted noting the distance and location of each miss or successful attempt. This information should be saved to note improvement over the coming weeks. We recommend scheduling a one-on-one session once a week. Receiving personalized instruction once a week during the season is the optimal amount of time to help maintain your consistency while allowing your skills and power to continually improve. Most of the Kicking Camps will be held in Orange County, Los Angeles, or San Diego, California. If you would like to receive personalized kicking instruction, please call us so we can schedule a date and time. Arrangements can be made to meet with you in your hometown or at your team practice, please call for more details. To Schedule a Kicking Lesson CALL 619-564-1333
Tags: Football Kicking Camps, Kicking Training, Private Kicking Lessons
29 Nov 07 About Kicking World!
If you want to improve your field goal kicking, punting, or kickoff technique, we can help you! With over 18 years of kicking experience and 9 years of kicking instruction, Kicking World knows what it takes to succeed as a kicker. Many people think kicking is “simple” but a true kicker knows there is a lot of preparation that goes into kicking consistent, successful kicks. At Kicking World we focus on teaching you the mental, physical, and technical skills to help drive your confidence and kicking performance to a new level!
Kicking World is the authority for kicking instruction in Southern California ! If you live in Orange County, Los Angeles, or San Diego and want to improve your kicking or punting skills, give us a call!
One-On-One Kicking Lessons: $70.00 per session for a 45 minute in depth personalized session. The best choice for kickers or punters of any skill level, whether beginner or trying out for the NFL.
Video Analysis: $30.00 which includes professional analysis and phone review of your kicking or punting video or highlight tape. Please call 619-564-1333 to arrange a video analysis and over the phone consultation.
To Schedule a Kicking Lesson Contact Us!
Brent Grablachoff
Owner and Coach
619-564-1333
www.kickingworld.com
Tags: Football Kicking Camps, Kicking Training, Kicking World, Private Kicking Lessons
