Wells Lands Third Offer

Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2009 by kickingsystem
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Posted Dec 22, 2009
Mountain West program the latest to offer San Diego (Calif.) Cathedral kicker…

San Diego (Calif.) Cathedral kicker John Wells has picked up his third offer.

“John has been offered a full scholarship from Air Force,” said John Matich of The Kicking System.

Air Force joines Cornell and Princeton in offering Wells.

The 6-2, 180-pound Wells was the MVP of the Miami Kicking Camp.

“John had a great season and has shown he is one of the best in San Diego. John is talking to a ton of schools right now, he had a great year,” said Matich.

Wells had been a part of consecutive state titles in two different states, earning one in 2007 with Phoenix (Ariz.) Brophy Prep and with Cathedral in 2008 and won another section title with Cathedral earlier this month.

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Jay Feely’s Twitter comments on Chris Henry stir up trouble

Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 by kickingsystem
FROM NBC SPORTS: Posted by Mike Florio on December 17, 2009 8:49 PM ET

Jets kicker Jay Feely has post-football political aspirations; he makes no attempt to conceal them.  But his comments regarding the late Chris Henry fail to demonstrate a high degree of political savvy.

Feely, with whom we’ve interacted in the past and who seems like a well-intentioned man and without question is a skilled kicker, had this to say on his Twitter page regarding Henry’s death:  “Chris Henry seemed to have turned his life around.  But, you can’t live on the brink of destruction without inevitably falling off the ledge.”

Later, Feely realized that he probably shouldn’t have said what he said.

“Maybe I did a poor job of expressing my sympathy while trying to look at the bigger picture of why this happened and how to avoid in future,” Feely explained in a subsequent tweet.

A search of Feely’s Twitter handle (“jayfeely”) reveals a variety of responses, most of which express disagreement with his sentiments — some of which express strong disagreement with his senitments.  Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com has written that his Friday column “will prominently feature Jay Feely’s crazy tweets.”

This isn’t about limiting Feely’s ability to speak his mind.  He has that absolute right — and those who don’t like what Feely says have the right to respond.  The broader point here is that an active member of an NFL team not named the “Cincinnati Bengals” has deemed it prudent to chime in on the same day Chris Henry died with an opinion that Feely knew or should have known would be polarizing, at best.

So, Jay, we think you’ll ultimately realize your stated goal of becoming President.

As long as the targeted jurisdiction is Del Boca Vista, Phase III.

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John Wells, Cathederal Catholic HS (San Diego, CA) Offered from Air Force

Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2009 by kickingsystem

December 17th, 2009

John Wells, from Cathedral Catholic HS, class of 2010, has been offered a full scholarship from Air Force.

“John had a great season and has shown he is one of the best in San Diego. Congrats again John” — TKS Owner John Matich

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NFL or Bust: What to do after your Senior year for Kickers & Punters

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2009 by kickingsystem

December 8th, 2009

By John Matich, Owner The Kicking System

Your season is done… football is long forgotten…you have only the bowl games to keep you interested in college football.  BUT — you felt you had a great season.  You lead your conference in points, field goal percentage or punt average. You compared yourself to the other kickers you played against and felt that you had an edge on them.  Coaches and teammates are telling you that you have what it takes to play pro ball.

Then the questions comes…. How do I get in the NFL?

Let me tell you its not an easy road to make it as a kicker or punter in the NFL. Hopefully you don’t have a serious girlfriend, becuase if you want to make it, you might find yourself moving and playing in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in a low end arena football team making $200 a game just to get some recent game footage.

First, I recommend getting a video together just like you did in high school. If you had a great year lets get it on a DVD or online.  If you are a kicker I suggest you put some punting on the film and if you are a punter add some field goal clips.  In the NFL they love combo specialist, it saves them a roster spot.  If you can only do one well (kick or punt), I highly suggest working on the other technique.  Highlight your strengths in the video, if you have strong kickoffs put your best kickoffs in the first 30 seconds.  NFL special teams coaches dig the long ball.  Also show them some practice film, showing some close-up shots of your kicking or punting.

Depending  on your current situation you may or may not need an agent. If you are a highly rated and have had scouts coming to you practice watching you over the fall then there is chance you might get drafted or signed as a free agent. Then I would recommend an agent. But if you have not talked or know that scouts even come to practice than chances are you are in the same boat as most senior year kickers – a part of the kicking race.  I would suggest not getting an agent.  Your best friend will the video editor of the football team. Get your video online!

Start to gather information, get the special teams coaches addresses and email addresses.  (if you need help, feel free to contact me).  Find out who will need a kicker, focus on those teams first.  Of course those teams may have their short list and could even draft a kicker, but dont worry about that.  All you need is a ‘look,’  if you get an opportunity to kick in front of them, then its up to you. I would send them a link to your video with a quick blurb of your strengths and your contact information.

Gear up for your pro day (usually from Feburary to April). From now until your pro day, I would suggest to get on a strict strength and conditioing program.  The farther the ball travels the better.  You might be able to work with your strength coach at you school or find a personal trainer close to where you are living to take you to the next level. Work on your mechanics. Coches want to see you kicking the same ball over and over again like a machine. Work out any kinks in your game.  (Of course I can help you with this as well)

Try not to have an ego and be open to play anywhere. Some Arena leagues get going in their preseason camps as early as Feburary or March.  Anywhere you can get some more film the better. Maybe its worth your while to play semi-pro ball for a year to fine-tune your technique.  At least you will be around other players who have the same goal as you and it will keep you motivated.

If it does not work the first year dont get to down. I have had many friends including myself have to sit a year or two to latch on to a team.  If you keep you focus and are willing to do what it takes it will happen.

There are plenty of kicking coaches and combines out there that I am sure you get mail from them on a weekly basis. Mostly selling you how they have all the connections and want you to pay thousands of dollars for and hours work of time. My suggestion is that you can do that yourself and save money.  If you are willing to market yourself and make phone calls on your own behalf then you have the right attidude.  Just remember their at thousands of kickers out there trying to do the same thing.  I could give you a list of at least 5-8 kickers just in San Diego alone training on a year round basis.

Lastly continue to do you research, look into other leagues, CFL and even the the new UFL. Graham Gano just signed with the Washington Redskins. He played in the first UFL season that included a 53 yard field goal. If you are going to wait till something happens then you might as well find a regular job. Dont wait for your favorite NFL team to call you for a tryout.  Go out and take it into you own hands and get it done.

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Dave Last, Valley Center Kicker earns PPR player of the game!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on December 8, 2009 by kickingsystem

December 8th, 2009

Its Championship week in San Diego High School football.

Davey Last, Valley Center Kicker, has earned the respect of many during TKS Kicking Camp and classes. Davey has won over 10 events last time I checked. But this past Friday, Davey earned the respect of the entire Southern California, he helped kick Valley Center into the DIV finals this Saturday.  He kicked 3 field goals of 24,28 and  25 yards. Davey who also plays corner back, has earned the title “The Special One” from his peers. Davey is a leading candidate for CIF Kicker of the year this year and a shoe-in as a senior. Davey has been starting on varsity as a freshman! Congrats to Davey and Valley Center! They will be playing Saturday at Southwetern College at 7pm.

Here is video: http://www.kusi.com/ppr/hzweek14/78587907.html?video=pop&t=a

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David Seawright, Yahoo Sports Blog 12/4/09

Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2009 by kickingsystem

From Yahoo Sports

Cal’s David Seawright should have been studying for finals Thursday night, but I suspect the sophomore kicker was spying glances at the thrilling Oregon-Oregon State game that determined the champion of the best football conference in the country this season. Yeah, I said it – and I’m proud that the 19th-ranked Golden Bears are right in the mix. Next year, they’ll win the thing; Pasadena, 1-1-11. In the meantime, they travel to Seattle to face the Washington Huskies before learning which low-profile bowl (have I mentioned the Pac-10 has the worst bowl tie-ins on earth?) they’ll win to complete their season. Here’s Seawright’s perspective on life in the Pacific 10.

If you haven’t watched much Pac-10 football this year, I suggest you start paying attention. Now.

Every game in the nation’s strongest top-to-bottom conference this weekend has postseason implications. All six Pac-10 affiliated bowls are waiting to see which top-25 team will fall into its lap.

The conference is so log-jammed that its Rose Bowl berth wasn’t decided until the final weekend of the season, with Oregon beating OSU 37-33 Thursday night.

For those of you who weren’t lulled asleep by Big Ten football by Week 4, you might have noticed that Ohio State booked a flight to Pasadena weeks ago. (Don’t mind that a USC team with three losses – all to conference foes – beat them at the Horseshoe.)

The only things putting Pac-10 fans asleep are its poor television deal and late-night East Coast airtimes.

The thrills don’t stop at the top. Currently, five teams are tied for second place in the conference, with three of those playing on Saturday. Seven conference teams are bowl-eligible, exceeding the conference’s allotment for guaranteed bowl invitations.

A stacked conference ensures solid matchups on a weekly basis. Combine that with our round-robin scheduling, and every game is a battle.

Which makes this weekend’s trip to Washington that much more important. Plenty is on the line – momentum, bowl placement, conference finish – and even more remains within our grasp. A 10-win season in this conference is no feat to shy away from. We just need our ninth win first.

Sure, the weather in Seattle will be colder than Tiger Woods’ attitude toward prying paparazzi. The Huskies have already knocked off Arizona and USC at home – the two teams most likely to play in the conference’s consolation prize, the Holiday Bowl.

But we’re ready for a dogfight (pardon the pun). With the nation’s best college football on the West Coast, it’s time for other time zones to catch on.

After all, it’s better late than never.

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Transferring Colleges: Kickers & Punters

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2009 by kickingsystem

December 1st, 2009

I figured I would start the month off with a post about transferring if you are a kicker or punter. Over the years, I have had students want to transfer after their first year at their college or later in their career for a variety of reasons.  

First off, you need to consider a few things before you dive into your coaches office and ask for your ‘release’.

Normally at the NCAA  division one level you have to sit out a year in order to play for your new team.  Even at the division two level you have to have a full year of residency to play, if you transfer from DII to DII.  Even if you transfer up in division you have to sit out a year and if you transfer down you do not have to sit out a year.  There are some basics for you to remember.

I always tell my kickers/punters that want to transfer look at the following 3 – A’s:

1) Academics – How are you doing academically? If you have poor grades, dont even think about transferring. Its becoming harder every year and now with this economy schools are getting harder to get into.  If you have good grades it still may be tough depending on what school you are looking at.

2) Atmosphere – How are the coaches treating you?  Of course if you are reading this article you must think you are the official waterboy of team, and the coaches must hate you or dont think you exist. But you might want to wait till you have the end of the season talk with the special teams coach, he might be postive and want you to compete heavily in the spring.  Ask the coach – If he is planning on bringing anyone in? Are they planning on using a scholarship for a specialist.  I would suggest if you have not played and are trying to find your spot on the team, ask him his advice. What would the coach recommend. If he doesn’t give you a straight answer then you might want to think things over.

3) Attitude — It might be time for a reality check and look yourself in the mirror.  How far are you really kicking your kickoffs?  Hang times on punts?  Any type of transferring means a whole new coaching staff, new school, new classmates and teamates and you will have to garner a hard working attidude to win them over to earn a starting field goal or punting position.  If you think you can handle those circumstance then you might find yourself kicking in games a year later.

Ocassionally, I do suggest junior college. If you are currently a freshman and did not like your expirece at your current school for whatever reason I would go back to a JC either in January or the next fall. At the junior college you can develop with out all the pressures of a big school and maybe get your AA degree and find yourself with a scholarship if you perform really well a year later.

Now with all this said what do you do?  Again start with a face to face meeting with you position coach before you leave for Winter Break.  Find out the answers to the questions I posted earlier: Are they bringing anyone else in?  Where do you see me fit on this team? Ask for his advice, what should you do?  If you get a negative vibe then I would talk it over with family and friends and decide what is best for you future.  If you do decide to tranfer you will need to seek a “release” from the school either as a walk-on or scholarship player.  Be careful once you ask for “release” there is usally no going back.  The coaches on that staff will use your spot on the team for someone else in a heart beat.

If you are going to be 5th year senior, the coaches will make a decision if they want to bring you back. Usually if you doing well they will bring you back but if you have not played (or not in their plans as a starting kicker/punter) and have an opportunity for graduate school I would look into some other options. But again it depends on your grades and test scores just like it was in High School.

Also check with a academic counselor to see if you are on pace to graduate, do you have the necessary classes for you major and can they be tranferrable, every school is different with their transfer units.

Remember you can not contact other schools to see if they would be interested in your kicking skills.   Not until you get your “release”, I would suggest do not have your mom or dad call either.  If you want to see if you can get interest I can act as a third party represensative and make a few phone calls for you. Its a tough call when you want to transfer and you dont even know if another school would be interested in you.  If you are a kickoff specialist or a punter you chances increase! Most of the time you will need the football program of the perspective college to endorse you as a transfer student. And you may not know that until you talk to them.

Transferring is a difficult process on all ends, academically and athletically.  Every situation is different, most of the time if there is someone ahead of you it will all pan out if you continue to work hard and make progress. Every coach wants to improve their kickoff coverage and net punting stats, and if you are making progress they will notice. Just remember when you get in the real world, companies do the same thing, just don’t quit your job!

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San Diego Kicking Camp / December 12th, 2009

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on December 1, 2009 by kickingsystem

December 12th, 2009

TKS will be holding its annual winter football kicking camp this December 12th, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

There will be the best kickers in Southern California attending this camp and from across the country.  TKS will be filming the event and each camper will get a DVD of their kicks online.  (No other camp offers this).   Along with personalized instruction and a free camp t-shirt this is best camp in the country.  TKS will also be inviting DII, DIII and NAIA schools to this event.  No only will you learn kicking technique but you will be exposed to college coaches.  To sign up please email us at john@kickingsystem.com.

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Seawright on the Cal/Stanford Big Game 2009 (Yahoo Sports)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on November 20, 2009 by kickingsystem

November 20th, 2009

From Yahoo Sports Sophmore Kicker David Seawright from Cal:

I now take you to the inner sanctum of God’s University, where there is a single-minded focus on Axe-retention that must come to fruition Saturday. So allow me to turn things over to Cal sophomore kicker David Seawright – and be sure to check out Part I of my triumphant return to the nation’s greatest student newspaper, with Part II coming on game day.

It’s Big Game week, and in a town commonly called “Bezerkeley,” this week is particularly wild.

It all began with Saturday’s down-to-the-wire victory over Arizona, made possible by a bizarre play by Wildcats quarterback Nick Foles which turned third-and-3 within field-goal range into fourth-and-17, pushing them into four-down territory when down by two.

This week’s opponent, Stanford, announced on Monday that Tiger Woods would serve as the team’s honorary captain. I personally witnessed Tiger’s greatness walking the 2008 U.S. Open’s 19-hole playoff with Rocco Mediate.

I have no qualms about trotting out our own university-affiliated prestige in response. It turns out, however, that a team can’t have 65 honorary captains (one for each of our Nobel laureates, compared to the Farm’s 51, for those of you keeping score at home).

On Tuesday, Cal’s greatest and most vocal supporter (my esteemed host) returned to his humble beginnings at the world’s finest student newspaper and offered Stanford hate of epic proportions.

On Wednesday, the Cal student body, in typical Berkeley fashion, kicked off a three-day, school-wide strike in response to expansive budget cuts, although I have my suspicions about the true intent of the demonstration.

Cal’s Greek Theater, which hosted the Dalai Lama last spring, will be set ablaze with fiery emotion (and a bonfire) on Friday as the students rally to retain the Axe, as we have six of the last seven years.

As I join my teammates in pregame preparations in Palo Alto, my colleagues at the Daily Californian will face off with our inferior counterparts at the Stanford Daily in a flag football showdown called the Ink Bowl.

Since the writers from Leland Stanford Junior College are likely to uphold the tradition of things (like grades, for example) being handed to them, I not only expect the Daily Cal to trounce them in our traditional manner – last time we lost I was 13 years old – but also fully acknowledge that we could cover the event more thoroughly due to our superior journalistic talents.

And on Saturday evening, to top it all of, we will kick off the 112th Big Game at Stanford Stadium in a clash between two teams fresh off emotional victories.

After a particularly big week, the Big Game will surely exemplify hard fought football in such a way to live up to its name.

I just hope it doesn’t come down to something like this.

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If you want to bring World Cup soccer in 2018/2022 please read

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on November 18, 2009 by kickingsystem

November 18th, 2009

If you want to bring World Cup soccer in 2018/2022 please visit:

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We need all the help we can get!

 

 

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