Chances are this is not a skill you are going to put a lot of time into learning to get good at it. It is probable at some time when you were younger, that you were able to dropkick a ball off the front porch and have it land on the roof of your house (or perhaps through the neighbors back window) and due to this you already have yourself some experience. If this is not the case, this skill is quite easy to get good at, but on saying this, if you ever get in the situation of guarding the goal it is going to be very important that you know how to correctly place your drop kick to make sure it is in the best position for your team to get the ball and take it back down the field.
The thing you need to know as much as possible about in reference to drop kicking is that you have to make sure the ball does connect with the top of your foot, this should be near the toes but not on top of the toes.
This will give you the opportunity to have the most powerful forward momentum but at the same time achieving some height. Just how much height is completely relevant to the position the ball is in when it connects with your foot; kicking the ball nearer to the ground will achieve the result of more forward momentum but the height wont be as much, but if you kick the ball closer to the waist you will achieve a lot of height but not a lot of momentum. The idea is to learn to get your kicks in the right place, so you are going to want to try this out with quite a lot of different angles to figure out how much distance you can achieve from every connecting position.
The fact of the matter is, speaking in general you will be wanting to make your drop kick at about a 45 degree angle from the ground which should be about level with your knee. This gives you the opportunity to get a pretty good forward thrust on the ball while you are also keeping control of its height and trajectory. If you find the two paragraphs you just read are making no sense, don’t be concerned, when you actually begin to start practicing some of these basic skills it will then make sense.
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