New Kickoff technique
Just saw this and thought it was worth a post.
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/9/6/12826248/this-high-school-kicke…
September 13th, 2016 at 2:09 PM ^
That is all.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:16 PM ^
Seems like a good place for this.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:18 PM ^
We tell people that all the time in Ultimate. It's not good advice.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
SWEET BUTTERED CRUMPETS!
September 13th, 2016 at 5:17 PM ^
But did he score?!?!
September 13th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^
September 13th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
This video is hilarious.
September 13th, 2016 at 4:07 PM ^
The volleyball one is funny too.
September 13th, 2016 at 5:49 PM ^
That looks pretty effing painful. It's funny, but it looks painful - I probably shouldn't laugh at it, but I did. I will say, however, that those were some fantastic blocks and it has changed how I approach volleyball now.
September 14th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
That was hilarious. I need me some more Scott Sterling!
September 13th, 2016 at 2:16 PM ^
That could turn into a fun looping gif with just a bit of work.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
September 13th, 2016 at 2:25 PM ^
I don't think this would work at higher levels becuase coaches would tell their players to jump out of the way. Anyone on a college kickoff team has good enough reflexes to do that.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^
Good memory. Never even remember this happening. This play seems pretty legit if the kicker can connect.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^
If memory serves, that may have been by accident. It was the NC game.
Anyway, for those saying college players have better reflexes, consider also that college kickers have stronger legs. That HS kick seemed fairly weak for what he was trying to do.
And if the downside is that it turns into a powerful squib kick, then that's not so bad if it's not a do-or-die situation.
September 13th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^
Peppers would just catch it.
September 13th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
for a touchdown
September 13th, 2016 at 9:25 PM ^
does he have any int's?
September 14th, 2016 at 1:02 AM ^
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September 14th, 2016 at 7:56 AM ^
Oh yeah? One of these days he's going to intercept the snap.
You just wait.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:36 PM ^
How old are these kids? They look like middle schoolers.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
That is keeping your head in the game.
September 13th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
Is it hard to kick a football off a tee with that kind of precision over 10 yards? (I've never tried.)
September 13th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^
I think you could pull this off in many levels of football (including NFL)
Pick the biggest guy on the 1st level and fire away.
September 13th, 2016 at 4:46 PM ^
I was hit in the right eye with a soccer ball twice in my tween years. Considering how rarely I played soccer this defied the odd like crazy.
I felt I could detect a difference in my eyes' appearance for a few years...the right one looked like the opening was smaller.
September 13th, 2016 at 5:07 PM ^
That's awesome the kid got up... too many these days would be a crying mess after that.
September 13th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
I kicked pee week through HS .
To kick a ball off a tee (standing upright per a kick away) with any kind of accruacy let alone hit a kid might be too hard. I think this guy got lucky. But if it were sideways it would be easier, more like kicking a soccer ball with accurace because you could better control the height. Might work at equal too or higher rate than a regular onside kick.
I always wanted to put the ball sideways on the tee and just flick it high in the air and try to catch. Coaches always said that was illegal but I have never seen a rule against it.
September 13th, 2016 at 4:07 PM ^
it's a rule that has been put in place since I played; granted, decades ago. We used two forms of onside kicks, both quite successful. One was the watermelon ball that you're are talking about, where the ball would just be placed flat on the tee's sufrace which, of course, resulted in a kunckleball flight. The other was with the ball placed in the conventional manner but the player standing beside the kicker would kick from the side, causing a higher trajectory that would travel between 10 and 15 yds. This is useful at the high school level because very few - as in none - of the front line receiving team would ever call a fair catch and if they tried to catcch it would normally lose possession on the ensuing full speed collision.
I am sure today - the coaches don't miss much - the players are much better trained for these situations.
September 13th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
Sounds messy.
September 13th, 2016 at 6:10 PM ^
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September 13th, 2016 at 6:38 PM ^
is it's real big in Japan
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September 14th, 2016 at 2:03 PM ^
I believe that is why the onside is typically hit into the ground right off the tee, to avoid a fair catch. However if the kick is just popped up it could be fair caught.
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September 14th, 2016 at 8:00 AM ^
Was his name Mike Leach?
September 14th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
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September 14th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^
When I played in high school, the opposing team's kicker once kicked a line drive that went off the knee of one of our front line players and rebounded deep into the kicking team's own territory. Since virtually their entire team had run past it, one of our guys was able to recover on about their 20, almost as if we'd had a really long kick return.
September 14th, 2016 at 2:18 PM ^
From a very bad onside kick (if it was an onside kick versus a squib kick).
September 14th, 2016 at 3:27 PM ^
I don't understand why more coaches instruct their kickers to do something similar when kicking off at midfield after a penalty.
It's not really that difficult to strike a football off a tee and kick it very hard at about head height (UCF's kicker did it twice last weekend), similar to shooting a soccer ball (with the laces of your boot). You don't even really need to kick it directly off the opposing player... you're hoping that one of the upmen stick out an arm or attempt to catch the knuckling football. Any sort of deflected touch and it's chaos. If they don't touch it, the returner has to field the kick by attempting judge the bounce of a hard-kicked football with an odd rotation.
The worst case scenario is that the ball goes out of bounds without a touch, or the ball is blasted into the endzone on a line.