JUCO, D2, D3 or NAIA? Picking the Right Level for Your Kicking Career
Every college level explained for kickers and punters: scholarships, playing time, tradeoffs, and the five questions to answer before you sign anywhere.
Athletes
The Walk-On Route: How Kickers Earn a Roster Spot Without an Offer
Preferred walk-ons, tryouts, and earning a scholarship later: the honest roadmap for kickers without offers, plus a six-month plan to get on a roster.
Kicker Recruiting by the Numbers: Distances and Hang Times Colleges Want
The benchmarks coaches chart — consistent FG range, kickoff distance, hang time — ballpark numbers by level, and a protocol to get your real stats.
Writing Emails to College Coaches: Templates for Kickers and Punters
A kicker’s guide to recruiting emails: subject lines coaches open, a fill-in template, follow-up cadence, and the mistakes that get your message deleted.
How to Make a Kicking Highlight Tape Coaches Actually Watch
Build a kicking highlight tape coaches will actually watch: clip order, filming setup, operation speed, and the mistakes that get tapes skipped.
Kicking Camps vs Private Lessons: Where Your Money Actually Helps
Camps give competition and exposure; private lessons give correction. Here’s where your kicking budget actually helps, and when to do both.
Be an Athlete First and a Kicker/Punter Second
People often look at a kicker and think that they’re not an athlete. The funny thing about Kickers and Punters is they’re becoming recognized for athleteicism as the years go on. Watching videos of kickers and punters in the 1970’s and you see the one bar helmets and the barefooted players and that would make … Read more
Kicking One Field Goal At A Time
Oftentimes when kicking a field goal, we let our thoughts get in the way of our performance. When that happens, it can be hard to play at your highest standard. In this article, we’re going to talk about the mindset behind kicking one field goal at a time. Keep it simple While you may have … Read more
Trust The Process, It’s The Key To Mastery
Trust the process is a phrase i’m sure you’ve heard time and time again. I will quickly break down why trusting the process is a must-do for you to master any skill. When you start a new project, it will be fun and exhilarating at first. After some time though, there will come a point … Read more
A Quick Breathing Exercise to Do When You Feel Stressed
Hey friends, I’m writing this blog post to give you a quick breathing exercise to do when you feel overwhelmed or stressed out. The method is called box breathing. And it goes like this. Doing the box breathing exercise Now do this for four minutes and you will see your mood will shift and your … Read more
