Secrets of a Power Soccer Kick!

This days, modern soccer players kick the ball harder than before, they are more rude. But rudeness is not sufficient, you need technique so you can score goals and your range of passing will be greater.

Here's the technique...
Just before taking off to do your shot, try performing a standing jump now, before you take off, there is a natural inclination to dip down slightly by bending the knees. This countermovement makes the jump more powerful. The more rapid the countermovement, the more power you generate.

If you still in doubt, try this:

Stand with your feet at the same width apart as your shoulders.
Now bend your knees slowly, and from this position jump as high as possible.
Next, repeat this exercise but dip down a little bit and rapidly.
As you can prove your jumping height increases due to the rapid countermovementyou made.

Now, lets analize the leg movements, as in shooting, your standing foot is alongside the ball, meanwhile your kicking leg is extended behind you, and your knee also flex so that your foot is pulled in towards your backside. The more you bend your knee and closer to your backside the more pwerful your kick will be.



Putting This Technique Into Practice by Phil Davies.

Practice shooting and kicking harder by first consciously bending your kicking knee to a greater extent. As your kicking leg naturally extends behind you just before a strike, try to feel your knee bend bringing your heel closer towards your back side. Just get used to the feeling before you start trying to strike the ball with 100% effort. It's important to gradually build up.

Once that feels a little more comfortable, focus on making the transition from your knee bending to extending as quickly as possible. In other words, a very slow transition would involve you hold you knee in a fully bent position for a few seconds before extending it to strike the ball. You want the opposite of that. As soon as you feel your knee is fully flexed, extend it rapidly to strike the ball.

Once you have mastered this technique, you can then focus on extending your leg from the hip as quickly as possible. Again, it's the transition (that split second point where the leg goes from moving behind you to in front of you) that is important and a conscious intent to make this faster is all that is needed.

Watch This Powerful Shots by Roberto Carlos(observe his technique)