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thompsoc
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| Tannin wrote: | | thompsoc wrote: | | It is rare to see anybody these days who is capable of doing a drop kick. They all do a rugby imitation. A drop kick requires a dropping of the ball like you are bouncing the ball. I can do one! |
Me too. Well, sometimes. Well, I used to be able to. Probably just take a nice divot if I tried it today.
I retired the drop kick after one golden moment at the MCG. It was after a game - you used to be able to have a kick on the ground after matches back then, which probably dates it to about 1942 - and I'd had as much beer as was good for me, and then some more beer. Can't remember who we beat. Ran out to have a kick with my mates .... well, stumbled out probably ... and for some ridiculous reason decided to try a drop kick - hard enough to get right sober, never mind half cut. And for some even stupider reason, went at it left foot. Perfect! Straight as an arrow, miles over my mates' heads it went, spinning just so all the way. Pure fluke, of course, but you take 'em any way you can get 'em.
I've had enough sense not to ever try to repeat it. Let that golden moment stand in my memory forever, with the distance covered getting ten yards further with each passing decade. If I last another 30 years it will have landed in the Yarra. |
A once in a generation moment... bit like winning the Granny every 20 or so years.
Why can I do a drop kick?
It was because in Junior footy every kid was made to do a drop kick when you marked or were awarded a free kick.... unless you were shooting at goal!
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Tannin 
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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^ I like that rule. 
They should bring it in at AFL level. Not for the whole match, only (say) during time-on at the end of quarters. (It'll never happen.) Or better, the full-back has to use a drop-kick for the kick-out unless he touches the ball to his boot first. Or (better still) 12 points for a goal scored from outside 50 with a drop-kick. And 36 points for taking the ball from half-back, streaming down the wing with at least three bounces, and drilling a major with a droppie.
PS: I remember that magic moment better than I remember wining the 1990 flag. From 1990, I don't remember anything much after half-time. Nothing to do with a couple of beers. Well, not a couple anyway. More like ... er .. I can't actually remember how many. I remember TD king-hitting Brownie and the whole side lifting as one man afterwards ... after that it gets a bit vague. 
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thompsoc
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Tannin should be on the AFL rules committee, I like his thinking.
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stab punt jim
Joined: 14 Jul 2014
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| Post subject: The Stab Pass, The Flat Punt, The Drop Kick and the Torp | |
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| Woods Of Ypres wrote: | great read re the invention of the stab pass.
does make you wonder, with the continued evolution of the game, is the room for more invention regarding kicking?
I remember a time playing kick to kick with a mate who was also a thai kickboxer at the time. he would stand at 90 degrees, swivel off his rear leg and strike the ball 50m at low trajectory. he told me the power came from the torsion of the hips due to his training. this bloke never played footy in his life. never been influenced by coaches telling him the 'correct' methods.
it did make me wonder, surely this kick could be used as a weapon at the highest level ie pack situation to a leading forward. |
Good read. My invention was not of the stab pass. I invented my "Stab Punt' in 1949.
It is being used today. Just not being called correctly? For further information see "The First Drop Punt. Recent research from a kick historian"on google in which you will see I was kicking kick to kick on a school ground in 1945-49. Thank you for your comments. Stab Punt Jim Johnson |
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masoncox
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Joined: 31 Aug 2015
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| Post subject: Re: The Stab Pass, The Flat Punt, The Drop Kick and the Torp | |
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| stab punt jim wrote: | | Woods Of Ypres wrote: | great read re the invention of the stab pass.
does make you wonder, with the continued evolution of the game, is the room for more invention regarding kicking?
I remember a time playing kick to kick with a mate who was also a thai kickboxer at the time. he would stand at 90 degrees, swivel off his rear leg and strike the ball 50m at low trajectory. he told me the power came from the torsion of the hips due to his training. this bloke never played footy in his life. never been influenced by coaches telling him the 'correct' methods.
it did make me wonder, surely this kick could be used as a weapon at the highest level ie pack situation to a leading forward. |
Good read. My invention was not of the stab pass. I invented my "Stab Punt' in 1949.
It is being used today. Just not being called correctly? For further information see "The First Drop Punt. Recent research from a kick historian"on google in which you will see I was kicking kick to kick on a school ground in 1945-49. Thank you for your comments. Stab Punt Jim Johnson |
How bloody old are you? |
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