How can I become an N.F.L. kicker?
822958
If you are a cop, like it appears in your picture, you should be pretty good at kicking the hell out of stuff while its on the ground. Good luck!
254534
At the scouting combine they measure how many reps a player can bench press with 225 lbs.  I know almost every half back can at least get close to 20, some over 20.  some of the really big offensive lineman can get around 40.  The kickers can usually get 3 even though they are exempt from the exercise.  Some of those kickers are a lot stronger than they look.
408938
You first start out by choosing your parents. It will tell you what position you would be the best at if you had that particular set of parents. Then you take an IQ test to see how knowledgeable you are at football. After these steps are taken. You are ready to enter the draft! Play your games, attend practices and hire agents, and you will be a true NFL superstar.
1007690
First place the ball on the ground. Next step look and decide where you want the ball. After this is determined. Take 3 to 4 steps back from the ball. Now the technique comes in to play. The technique is to plant your non kicking foot next to the ball in the direction you want the ball to go. The ball should look like it is placed right at the center of your non kicking foot an inch or so away. What seems comfortable to you. Now when you kick the ball you should try to get under the ball, but not to much where you kick the ground...and your kicking foot should be at a slight angle. Best thing to do is mark the spot on the ball where you want to kick it. Key thing when kicking the ball is to LOOK at the ball when kicking. To ensure hitting the ball at the designated spot. Now you are ready to kick the ball. So now take those few steps back, approach the ball, and use all the techniques I mentioned above and you should get the results you are looking for. The height and the distance and the accuracy. But of course all of this will only fall into place after a lot of practice. Practice is the key to everything you do.  =) Another thing that might help to understand what I'm trying to explain is record a game or 2 and review the goalkeeper when he is taking those kicks. Notice how many steps he takes.....His body movement. How low he keeps his body...knees slightly bent.....
1150397
Play football. Actually, declare for some really obscure degree, then change when you get there.
175162
to the best of my knowledge from observing, you have to be sponsored by some league and qualify in their national and world competitions.  i'm sure it is tough, but go for it!
1175979
Practice and an undying will. Recievers like terrell owens catch a 100 footballs a day so get to work thats about 700 a week start counting. It's just like anything else if you do it enough it becomes automatic. Lift some weights too so you can escape the jams the good recievers will be able to. my plan is to eat a steak and potatoe a day to put on some weight then i do about 200 push-ups a day so get to work don't be a punk and slack off either there are so many recievers right now this is a competition no matter what situation you better not quit or else you going to let me and every one else down but by no-way do slack your school work so chap chap. Alright ain't good enough and if you slow don't quit and if short don't quit have faith anything is possible you will see.\n\nMy cousin in my oppinion was the coldest football player he let it slip away if you smoke stop don't let it burn away yo dreams and watch out for girls too but you know get ya freak on and don't forget running routes is crutial too. So run about twice a week and stretch alot when you can do the splits you got good agility and to make your arms stronger than your legs do handstands then upside push-ups i hope to see ya home boy.Good Luck!
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If you're talking about REAL football (not soccer) I can help.  I played on a semi-pro team for 3 seasons.\n\nFirst of all, you have to have speed and dexterity.  Speed is natural, but can be improved with exercise.\n\nSecond, as far as health is concerned, eat correctly and balanced, exercise (lift weights) regularly.\n\nThird, develop a keen sense of what the game is all about.  Study tendencies both on defense and offense.  Moreover, always be ready to play any position when asked upon.  Practice throwing, catching and kicking if applicable.\n\nStudy the playbook intently and know every player's responsibility so you know what to do, when to do it, and can play their position.
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Go with Vanderjagt!\n\nHere are the Fantasy Index rankings for kickers:\n\n1. PHI Akers \n2. CAR Kasay \n3. NO Carney \n4. BAL Stover \n5. CHI Gould \n6. DAL Vanderjagt \n7. IND Vinatieri \n8. CIN Graham \n9. KC Tynes \n10. DEN Elam \n11. PIT Reed \n12. SEA J.Brown \n13. JAC Scobee \n14. SD Kaeding \n15. NE Gostkowski \n16. STL Wilkins \n17. TB Bryant \n18. GB Rayner \n19. DET Hanson \n20. NYG Feely
957071
You can always count on Akers to hit the kicks he gets, that is about the best you can ask of a fantasy kicker.
673322
If you are that good, then get yourself back into the local football teams and start impressing the coaches, once you have done that then the coach will let teams know and then if the teams are interested the scouts will come looking to see you play, and if you are good enough they will offer you a trial with their club, your other alternative is to try and get into a non league team, but a team that plays regularly and try from there. You will be very very lucky if you can find any team that will give you a trail just on your comments about how good you are. Good luck though.
782232
actually, the deetroit league would be good for you as neither of you can spell...or you can search through the private leagues when signing up for a team...\n-nny
705396
Listen to Chad Johnson...and that will tell you the minimum education level needed to play football.
29583
While there are strategies on and off the field to learn, this is a people business.  Knowing how to communicate to people to motivate them to achieve their best is what you want to focus on.\nDo your homework by finding out where the current and recent past coaches came from.  Find the name of every coach for every team in the NFL over the last 10 years.  Find out what their backgrounds were.  Did they start as players?  Coach college first?  Find the coach(es) that you want to embrace as role models, not for their winning record, but for their ability to get the job.  A background you can relate to and emulate.  Start with coaching right now.  City league football or YMCA or HS asst. coach.  Try private schools since they're not a govt. agency they may be easier to get started with.  There's nothing like doing it to learn to do it.  You have to be able to asst. coach HS before you can asst coach college ball.  You have to understudy a good college head coach before you can be a College Head Coach.  If you can't with a college team, you won't be going to the NFL.  You have to prove yourself so you might as well get started.  Degrees and resume qualifications won't get you the job.\n\nThis is a relationship based business.  Start placing yourself in correct environment to initiate, build and nurture those relationships.  Look on the sidelines and find out who's there and who they work for.  Relentlessly pursue the job that puts you on the sidelines.  Read "The 21 Indisputable Laws of Leadership" by John Maxwell.  Get a hold of the team chaplin and volunteer to help him with anything, making copies, running errands, anything.  Don't take "no" for an answer.  Don't be annoying, be persistant.  Did I mention to refine your people skills?\n\nGo for it!
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Obviously you've got to work out hard and make sure youre in shape for the start of the season. Strength and conditioning are essential for the O line. I'm assuming you already know that however. What I would suggest focusing on is working on your first step or your ability to get off the ball. If you can explode off the ball and get into the d-lineman before he gets to you, you'll dominate consistently. Strength is important as a lineman, but quickness and leverage are more important. In addition to your regular running and work-outs, I would suggest jump roping and jumping squat thrusts (they're like regular squat thrusts only you jump when you come up instead of just standing.) Id also suggest trying this; Find a brick or cement/concrete wall. Take some sidewalk chalk (or anything you can wash off) and draw a line to represent the abdomen/chest area of a d-lineman. Get down in your stance and work on firing off the ball and staying low, shooting up hands first into the wall. Do this over and over to increase your speed and to get used to staying low. OH, be careful not to hurt your wrists when you go into the wall. The last thing you want to do is break your wrist a month before training starts  lol. You may want to also consider wearing what boxers call "bag gloves." They're gloves that cover the back of your hand and your back knuckles so you don't rip your hands up on a heavy bag, or in this case, the wall. Other than that, just give it all you've got. If you go 100% and don't dog it during practice, the coaches will notice, and it will impress them. Hope it helps, and good luck bro.
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great question.  First off, as a wide receiver, you need to work on your hands.  After all, you have to be able to catch with your hands and not your body.  Best thing for this is to buy a Nerf football that's attached to a rubber band.  I think you can buy these on line or at place's like Academy.  What you do is, hook one end of the rubber band to a fence or pole.  The height should be at your shoulder's height. Then you stand and through the ball out away from you, because of the rubber band, it will come right back and really fast.  It forces you to put your hands up and catch the ball with your hands. Many NFL Wide Receiver's use this technique. \nSecondly, you need to run routes.  Get with some buddies, grab a football, go to a field and have one of your friends throw to you. You can get online and find some specific routes to run, i.e., post corner, in route etc. It would be helpful to have at least three people. One QB, one WR, and a defender. Since you're playing both WR and FS, you would want to change up and cover sometimes too.\nThird, work on your feet.  Marry a jump rope. This will educate you feet and make them quicker.  Jump rope all the time!!!!\nFourth, the weight room.  Try not to lift heavy weights.  You don't need to bulk up as a receiver.  Just light bench press, dumbell press, curls etc. Your best bet is to lift light with a lot of reps.  This will give your muscles stamina.  For your legs, squats (light), leg press, leg curls and extensions. When you're working on your legs, try to train your muscles to burst.  Meaning, on the exertion part of the lift, really burst the weight up or out. But make sure it's in a controlled way.  Don't over do it in the weight room.  As far as running two miles, that's fine, but you need to work on burts.  Meaning you need to work in some sprint work.  This is very important.  Run some 100's, 150's, 180's, and 220's.  Always stretch and warm up first and cool down and stretch afterwards.  Vary your workouts from day to day. Right down your routine for lifting and running Monday through Friday. I used to lift in the morning, and run in the evening.  Monday was heavy upper body lifting, and running day 4 400's 60 to 70 seconds for each, and 2 200 yard (sprints), 2 100 yard sprints.  Tuesday was heavy leg day, and jogging..2-3 miles, Wednesday was light upper body, short sprints..100's, 60's and 40 yard dashes.  Spend 1hr on the track.  Thursday was light lower body, and hill work or bleacher's. Try to burn your quads, yeah!!  Friday was a total body workout in the weight room (light) and some light jogging.2-3 miles at a relaxed pace. Good luck. Contact me if you need me to send you a specific routine.