Most kickers believe that if they find just the right technique, they will never miss another kick.
But, this is false. In fact, it’s much better to get away from saying “making kicks” to “making it more or less likely you’ll make a kick”.
Kickers can do everything right and still come up short.
That’s why kicking is a brutal position to play, but that’s always why it’s incredibly rewarding. It’s really cool to be one of the few people on the planet able to handle that kind of pressure (inwardly and outwardly).
I like the “Swiss Cheese Method” of performance improvement. It goes like this:
Any single slice of Swiss Cheese has holes in it, but stack enough slices on top of one another, and eventually you will have one solid block of cheese.
In the same way, any training method you use will have its own shortcomings that will need other methods to compensate for it.
Weightlifting - makes you strong but doesn’t make kicks.
Technique - makes your swing more consistent but doesn’t make you stronger.
Grades - helps you get into school, but not on the field.
Training by yourself - total focus to your swing, but not realistic without a snap and hold.
Training with snap and hold - great for replicating game situations but not great for fine tuning small details.
The idea is simple: stack enough good actions on top of one another until it would become unreasonable for you not to make more kicks and perform better.
Summing It Up…
You can’t force a kick to happen, you can only make it more or less likely to occur.
Stack behaviors on top of one another that, combined, make improvement unreasonable not to achieve.
The is the Swiss Cheese Method: every method you use will have a shortcoming that another method needs to compensate for.
That’s all for now,
Coach Cahill
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Ebook: Grab a copy of my ebook How To Kick In College
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1:1 Consultation: Email me [email protected] for a personalized recruiting or kicking consultation.