The most important thing would be to make sure the laces are correct every time, cause if they're faced back at the kicker, you know, that efects the kick. The p a t is a little bit more finesse, where you don't want to burn it at him, so then you're just basically flicking it back with your arms. Do you know exactly how many rotations it takes to get to the holder's hand? You also need to be exactly consistent from snap to snap, velocity, et cetera. Let olwey always be the same target, same velocity, same follow through, get release to ball at exact same spot every time,
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