Anderson Goin (Briarcrest)

On Sunday through Tuesday Anderson Goin (Briarcrest) received some One on One Kicking Instruction. Anderson has been a very good soccer player in high school and he decided to come out for football and be a kicker for his senior year. He and his father contacted me a few months back and explained to me that he had never been coached and had a really strong leg, which was music to my ears!

I watched Anderson kick a few balls and I had to agreed with his father that he had a HUGE leg. His warm up was a few kicks from 30 yards, 40 yards, and 50 yards. He would kick the ball with great power and distance but he was very erratic. I started the lesson by shortening up his steps and helping Anderson kick more down the field.

After giving Anderson some basic instructions I just got out of the way and watched in amazement as he started going through a very impressive field goal workout. We started at 40 yards and after each kick we moved back in distance. He made numerous 50 and 60 yard field goals and even hit a 64 yard field goal off the top right upright!

After the field goal workout we began to work on kickoffs. We did some 2 step and 5 step kickoffs and once he got more comfortable he started booting them into the end zone. He hit some 5 step kickoffs 68 to 69 yards with 4 second hang time.


On the second lesson we worked on kicking field goals from the hash and it took Anderson a little while to find his line from the right and left hashes. I sometimes had to remember that Anderson had never had any instruction until I worked with him. I worked on a lot of basic situations with Anderson to prepare him for kicking in a high school game. On the final day we worked perfecting his kicks from the hash along with his kickoff steps and just basic kicking knowledge.

Anderson is just a natural ball kicker and I was very impressed with how quickly he learned the techniques. He was a coaches dream because he had a really big leg and had never been coached, which means I didn't have to correct a lot of bad habits! I expect some really big things from Anderson this season and I believe with the proper time to develop he could have a bright future in kicking.

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