well apparently i signed up to be a mentor... not my best decison ever since... lets be honest kicking is not something that you can really teach someone to be able to do at an elite level. But here we are. I decided to start by sitting the rookies down and asking them to answer a few questions about how to kick a ball. Most should do really well, the kicking part is the easy part of the job, the hard part is being able to do it infront of a crowd and under pressure. So to try and emulate this I attempted to place them under high pressure for a bit. We took a trip to the local diving club and got the guys set up to go underwater for a period of time. This should allow them to spend time in a high pressure zone so that maybe they can get use to it. This should be fine, no one has ever died diving without experience so we will be fine. The next step is taking them to the airport to kick some balls. We will line up in an area where planes will be flying close to us so that they can get use to kicking in loud environments. This should help them learn how to kick in the NSFL.

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