How to hit A Bicycle Kick
BICYCLE KICK TUTORIAL | Master these football skills
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hello unisport famine and welcome back
to another seven MLC shooting tutorial
and today we're going to be working on
one of the most difficult techniques in
football the bicycle kick so when a
bicycle kick is scored it's usually one
of the most amazing sights in football
and because of the complexity of the
technique if it does hit the back of the
net it's usually shown all over the
world and the circumstance where a
bicycle kick might occur is when a
player's running into the box
anticipating a cross and the ball
actually ends up going high and behind
the player so they have to turn round
with their back to go and it's too high
for them to head or too high for them to
take down on their chest and volley so
they have to hit it first time out of
the air so they drive up into the air
their foot comes up and they're kicking
it over their head and usually it
surprises the goalkeeper
so let's break down the step-by-step
tutorial of a bicycle kick now the first
thing to bear in mind this is kind of a
mini tip it's just having the courage to
do it of course anytime you throw
yourself up in the air and land down on
your back or your side it's not going to
be the most comfortable feeling in the
world so you can be a little bit afraid
and that's instinctive and that's
natural but we can work on a few ways to
cushion our fall which we will talk
about later on in the video make sure
you bear in mind that these top level
players are doing it in the midst of a
professional match their Adrenaline's
running and the reward is greater than
the risk the chances of them scoring a
goal is worth taking that risk of maybe
getting a little bit of a painful side
or a painful back for a few days after
completing the bicycle kick so the first
tip I'm going to give you is to make
sure you're driving up in the air off of
your kicking foot so for me that's my
right foot so we want to have a nice
powerful jump into the air so how we do
that is we plant our foot and then we
spring up off of our toes and as we
spring up our opposite leg to our
kicking foot drives up as well you want
to use your arms as well in a nice
purchase on the ground drive into the
air because that's going to give you
that height and as you're doing that you
want to lean back at the same time so
you're not driving up straight but
you're kind of leaning back and then
driving up so that your body starts to
land towards the Earth that's going to
be a lot easier to swing your leg over
your head the next step is as you're
leaning back and falling you want to be
able to open up your body towards the
direction that the cross is going so for
example if the cross was coming in from
this side and I'm clicking it with my
right foot I want to start opening up my
body and because you're going to be a
mid flight at this point it's quite
difficult to be able to twist your body
so you need to use your arms as momentum
so I like to use my left arm and almost
make it look like I'm opening a window
or something that's just going to allow
me to twist so that opposite leg can
come across you almost want to hit it on
the side it's going to provide a better
clean strike on the ball and also a safe
for landing so you can extend your arm
and cushion your fall now when it comes
to striking the ball you actually want
your non kicking foot to provide the
energy for your striking leg to come up
and make contact with the ball
so as you're driving into the air this
leg is bent and then when you're going
to swing your kicking leg you want to
drive this non kicking leg down and
those two actions going against each
other creates enough energy to swing the
kicking leg through and you want to be
making sure you're striking the ball
with your laces that's going to offer
the cleanest
action so you can generate enough power
to be the goalkeeper and the final step
of a bicycle kick is the follow-through
which is really important for two
reasons the first being the accuracy of
the shot second being the safety in the
landing you want to be able to cushion
yourself so that you don't get an injury
so number one is the accuracy and your
main goal with this no pun intended is
to hit it on frame so if you can hit the
ball towards the goal by swinging your
leg in the direction of the frame it's
gonna have more chance of going on goal
but also your foot wants to be above the
ball if possible that's going to allow
the ball to go downwards if you hit
underneath the ball it's just going to
go up in the air and not challenge
goalkeeper whatsoever and when it comes
to your landing you want to kick over
yourself diagonally so your legs going
to swing over usually in the direction
the balls being served into so that you
can come onto your side and then cushion
yourself either with your arm or with
your leg so that it makes impact with a
bent arm you don't unlock your arm out
because I could cause an injury to your
elbow so that you're hitting the ground
with the bent elbow to cushion your
landing before your body hits
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so there's a few tips to work on your
bicycle kicks remember the most
important advice I can give you is just
to be courageous even though it's going
to hurt you might score the winning goal
for your team and you're going to be the
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