Through the Uprights - Ep 2: Jack of All Trades/The Mental Game

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🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chapter 3: Everyone we talked to for this podcast from Lou Groza award winners to a Pro Football Hall of Famer agreed that the best pro and college kickers are athletes who played a lot of sports growing up. As University of Florida Gators kicking great Bobby Raymond put it, they learned to be competitors by playing everything rather than just kicking. The best kickers often are “jack of all trades, master of none” until they decide to specialize in college. This episode explores the way different kickers relate other sports to their position on the football field. Surfing, pitching, golf, and even stock car auto racing are some of those sports where these world class placekickers first honed the athletic skills and a mindset that enabled them to later excel as kickers. Chapter 4: A deep dive into the mental aspect of the kicking game. This chapter is all about the techniques the best placekickers have used to stay at the top of their game. Hear about mental, visualization and practice strategies directly from Lou Groza Award winners Joe Allison (University of Memphis Tigers), Judd Davis (University of Florida Gators), Marc Primanti (North Carolina State Wolfpack), Art Carmody (University of Louisville Cardinals), Morten Andersen (New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons), Matt Stover (Baltimore Ravens), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is a bonus episode of Locked On Presents through the Uprites,
0:05.1	a special podcast series about what it takes to make it as an elite college and NFL kicker,
0:11.3	reported by Cole Weinstein and featuring interviews with Lou Groza Award winners
0:15.7	and decade-plus NFL veterans.
0:19.0	Locked on Presents Through the Uprites is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:28.0	Bobby Raymond grew up two blocks away from the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Florida.
0:36.5	Naturally, he learned to surf as a teenager,
0:38.6	and his passion for the sport grew. When I was in high school, I'd wake up at six in the morning
0:44.0	a lot of times, so I didn't have to leave the house until after seven. I'd jump up and check the waves.
0:48.5	And if they looked really good, worth going out. You know, I'd go out and get a little session
0:52.6	in before I had to leave for high school.
0:54.7	A good wave before class was exactly what Raymond needed to start his day.
1:00.5	It's something that's very relaxing. It's great exercise. It's good being out in the water.
1:05.8	You're in nature. Just the sound of the waves breaking behind you is very therapeutic for a lot of people, just
1:12.1	the sound of the ocean and waves rolling in.
1:14.4	Bobby Raymond went on to become the starting kicker for the University of Florida in 1983
1:19.4	and 84.
1:20.7	He finished his time at school as one of the most accurate kickers in college football history.
1:25.6	His field goal percentage?
1:27.0	Nearly 88 points on his career.
1:30.0	Since then, he's had numerous parents reach out to him asking what they can do to help their
1:35.2	child achieve that same success.
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