Kicking a soccer ball is always a complex but essential topic. However you don’t need to be as skilful as Messi or Ronaldo for kick a soccer ball far.
There are many different ways of kicking a soccer ball according to situation but you need to do hard training and practice to increase your power of kicking. No doubt, professional techniques are also necessary to be learned.
Fundamental of the Technique
Kicking a soccer ball requires your full body participation and power including your mental dedication. There are many types to kick a soccer ball like pass, a chip, short and long pass. Depending upon the situation, you can achieve this by using different parts of foot and approach to soccer ball.
According to the football experts like David Deckham, a good and proper placement of your body and feet can make you to kick the ball powerfully and professionally. First of all, lean your body forward to hit the ball forcefully and to cover a wide area. Similarly, if you want the ball to stay higher in the air, you have lean back your upper body soon after kicking the ball.
Another technique to follow the ball as soon as contacted with ball, do sweep motion using both legs. This technique is very helpful to deceive the opponent as you will be able to move in any direction.
Stopping the ball while pass, use your toe rather than top of the foot. Lastly use top of the foot while kicking the soccer ball instead of using toe because toe has less wide as compare to top of the foot.
Training and Visualization
Experts say that soccer is 90% brain game and only 10% running game. This also applies to kicking a soccer ball. So train your mind according. Away from field, do practice step by step. First write down your kicking goal. Then think about the possibilities and steps to gain that goal. Review the movements which you have thought or visualize.
New things will automatically come up to your mind. Finally, when you are in the field, envision your thoughts and that mind practice to quickly understand the situation and react according. This way you will be able to sharpen your brain and it will help you to kick the ball farther. Watch live soccer games on TV like Premier league, Laliga, Serie A etc and try to learn from the players about their reaction or different situations and ways of their kicking.
Kicking Training and Practicing
Kicking practice is very crucial if you really want to increase your skills in soccer. There are many coaching centres which are working in improving accuracy and overall performance. Better to start with a coach or with any senior player. Start distance kicking, like 20 to 50 feet and kick the ball to the other player. Try kicking with different angles and monitor that which kick go farther. Do practice with both legs, in some situations players need to use their other leg for kicking specially in defensive pressure. Train yourself on both, moving and still balls. Try to match your speed with moving ball’s momentum / speed. This will help you to kick harder and farther when ball is in motion.
