When Should Kids Start Kicking? A Parent’s Honest Guide
What kicking should look like at every age from 7 to 18: soccer crossover, tee transition timing, volume limits, and what early starts do and don’t buy.
Athletes
Tryout Week: How to Win a Kicking Job in Front of Coaches
A seven-day plan to peak for kicking tryouts: what coaches grade, how to chart your own kicks, managing nerves, and what to do if you lose the job.
Field Goal Kicking Camps: What Happens at One and How to Prepare
A kicking camp hour by hour: how charting works, what coaches notice, what to pack, and the follow-up that turns a camp chart into a real opportunity.
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.
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
