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LOGINRepeatable kicks
Work on your kicker’s specific out-of-hand technique, so they can turn their natural ability into a repeatable, accurate skill under pressure.
WHY USE IT
This is a session the players can then go and use themselves, before or outside training time.
set up
Balls, cones and the side of your pitch.
HOW TO PLAY
ACTIVITY 1: Place cones every 5m back from a set of goalposts. A kicker starts at the nearest cone and kicks at the post. Concentrate on the foot following through to the target. When they have hit the post once, they then move back to the next cone. They try to get back as far as they can in 10 attempts.
ACTIVITY 2: Mark out the cones and balls as in the bottom illustration. The kicker has one minute to kick five balls through the posts. The time element puts pressure on the technique to be repeated accurately.
COACHING POINTS
- Kick to a specific target.
- The leg and foot follow through to that specific target.
- Use both the strong and weak kicking foot.
- Hold the ball in line with the kicking foot, at about hip height
- Drop the ball and kick through to the target, with the hips and chest facing the direction of the kick
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- Start 5m from the posts
- Step back 5m every time the ball hits the post
- Have 10 attempts and see how far back the kicker gets
- You can make this a race. Don’t worry if the players cut across each other, as long as they do not interfere with the other group’s ball
- Pick up the ball and kick through the posts
- The kicker has one minute to see how many kicks they can get through the posts
Dan Cottrell
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