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  • #32
    slingerz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,248 ✭✭✭slingerz


    sound.

    lost by a point but i kept a clean sheet, had good kickouts and was very comfortable under the high ball fielding 3 or 4 of them. counts for nothing now though


  • #33
    LeoB
    Registered Users Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭LeoB


    I ended up playing in goals for a season and after a shaky start found it great. Despie being a free taker when I was a forward I found kicking the ball out a diferent challenge altogether. The problem was I was not following the same routine and was concentrating to much on distance which lost the accuracy I had. Our club coach took me through a few drills at the time and got me working aand thinking. We found the best solution for me was to take frees as a forward would, I never changed my routine as a forward so, I started to slow down a little and done all the things mentioned here like placing the valve away fro me and taking the same amount of steps It took a month or two but my kickouts usually hit the half way from a score and maintained a fair bit of accuracy.

    At training I would take frees as a forward would using my routine to score points and then tried to use the same on match days.. Routine, Routine, Routine, Routine
    As for the kicking tee's I dont like them and I always kicked from the ground.

    Can you get someone to analise what you are doing? Best of luck with it.


  • #34
    Louthdrog
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Louthdrog


    LeoB wrote: »
    As for the kicking tee's I dont like them and I always kicked from the ground.
    What? Those things are a god send. Always had problems with my kicking. Was pretty good with the rest of my game but the kickouts were just not working. Had a big championship game for my college this year so the week before i literally got a bag of balls and a midfielder. Spent a good few hours trying different techniques and different tees.
    In the space of a few weeks, my kickouts went from the weakpoint of my game to possibly its strongest. Its all about practice and perfecting your technique.


  • #35
    LeoB
    Registered Users Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭LeoB


    Louthdrog wrote: »
    What? Those things are a god send. Always had problems with my kicking. Was pretty good with the rest of my game but the kickouts were just not working. Had a big championship game for my college this year so the week before i literally got a bag of balls and a midfielder. Spent a good few hours trying different techniques and different tees.
    In the space of a few weeks, my kickouts went from the weakpoint of my game to possibly its strongest. Its all about practice and perfecting your technique.

    You got it in the last bit...... Practice and Technique. I just dont like them. It can give an advantage instead of working on the basic skill of kicking from the ground


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