How to Return a Kick-Off or Punt

Part of the Video Series How to Play Football

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Learn how to run to effectively return a kick and a punt on special teams in this free football training video.

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How to Return a Kick-Off or Punt
Hi this is Tim Gardener on ExpertVillage.com; we’re going to be going over some advanced techniques in football. Okay continuing with punt return and kick return. Okay the most important thing after you’ve caught the ball and you’ve got control over it, now you’re ready to run and we’re assuming that you’ve got a return on left, right, middle, reverse, or something. Here is the most important thing, believe what you see, if you see a hole, you’ve got to believe that it’s there because by the time you think about it and you change your mind and decide to go back into the hole, it’s going to close up. So the most important thing you want to do as soon as you catch it is to go the direction you know you’re supposed to go. You’ve got to get as much yardage as you can before you get to the mesh point. The mesh point is the point at which the defenders, your blockers and you all meet up at the same time, and you’ve got to hit that right at the same time because if you hit that mesh point when the defenders are hitting your blockers, that’s when the hole is going to develop and you’ve got to make your decision and you’ve got to go and you’re going to be able to spring through it.

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Expert: Tim Gardner was one of Southern Methodist University's star football players. He now owns a marketing company and continues to work with high profile athletes and football clubs around the nation. Read More