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<blockquote data-quote="Twickenham-RULES" data-source="post: 87934"><p>I agree that you 'learn' to kick a ball, I used to kick for my team and have to say that most of it came from teaching myself, although at school I did have a good PE teacher that taught kicking technique. </p><p></p><p>But it was practice, practice, practice at the end of the day. I didn't have particularly strong legs at school (tall and skinny more like) but with practice I'd learnt how to hit the ball on it's sweet spot which carried it further than a team mate who just booted it. It's also about how you position the ball on the pitch/tee, in our case it was on sand, kicking tees just weren't around and by getting the right angle of the ball you found the best contact between ball and foot.</p><p></p><p>I do also beleive that you can be born with the talent but again you need the practice to make it perfect, if you don't marry ball to foot correctly... well we've seen the most talented of kickers miss.</p><p></p><p>Ah, the good old days. If I kicked a ball now I'd probably just tear my hamstring again, couldn't afford two weeks off work now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twickenham-RULES, post: 87934"] I agree that you 'learn' to kick a ball, I used to kick for my team and have to say that most of it came from teaching myself, although at school I did have a good PE teacher that taught kicking technique. But it was practice, practice, practice at the end of the day. I didn't have particularly strong legs at school (tall and skinny more like) but with practice I'd learnt how to hit the ball on it's sweet spot which carried it further than a team mate who just booted it. It's also about how you position the ball on the pitch/tee, in our case it was on sand, kicking tees just weren't around and by getting the right angle of the ball you found the best contact between ball and foot. I do also beleive that you can be born with the talent but again you need the practice to make it perfect, if you don't marry ball to foot correctly... well we've seen the most talented of kickers miss. Ah, the good old days. If I kicked a ball now I'd probably just tear my hamstring again, couldn't afford two weeks off work now. [/QUOTE]
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