kicking (football)

A comprehensive guide to football kicking and punting that includes drills and strategies for improving consistency, accuracy, distance, and hang time and offers warm-up and conditioning programs.

Text and photographs illustrate various kicking techniques and their importance in the game. Also gives brief biographies of famous kickers.

Instructions for place-kicking and punting a football.

Describes and illustrates the skills of punting, kicking, and placekicking a football, and includes twenty-two sequential drills, with illustrations and photographs.

Three NFL kickers explain the basic mechanics of kicking and punting plus the mental demands and requirements of kicking with consistent success.