Kick (football)

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A soccer striker taking a shot at the goal.

Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the most important skill in Australian rules.

Kicking is a method used by many types of football, including:

• Football (Soccer)
• Australian Rules Football
• International Rules Football
• American Football
• Canadian Football
• Gaelic football
• Rugby League
• Rugby Union

Kicking is most common in Association Football, where only the two goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands. It is also the primary method of transferring the ball in Australian rules football and Gaelic football. Although kicking is used less frequently in Rugby League, Rugby Union, American, Canadian forms of football and is restricted to specialist positions, it is still an important tactical skill.

[edit] List of common kicking styles

Australian rules football is the only football code which has at one point in its history exhibited all kicking styles.

• Grubber kick - Rugby league, Rugby union, Australian rules football
• Bomb kick - Rugby union, Rugby League, Australian rules football
• Drop kick - Rugby union, Rugby league, American Football, Australian rules football (deprecated)
• Drop punt - Australian rules football, Rugby union, Rugby league
• Punt - American football, Australian rules football
• Torpedo punt - Australian rules football, American football, Rugby league
• Checkside punt - Australian rules football, Rugby league, Rugby union
• Scissor kick - Association football (soccer), Australian rules football
• Place kick - Rugby union, Rugby league, American football, Australian rules football (deprecated)

[edit] See also

• Kick-to-kick

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