Kicking, I’ve always said, it’s 10 percent physical and 90 percent mental. I mean, I think the good Lord gave me an above-average ability to swing my right leg, and a really, really strong mind and faith. And that’s what it takes to kick in this league. I remember in ’01, we went through a tough stretch of missing kicks and it doesn’t become as much physical. You don’t really get the yips kicking because your leg and hip joint can only go a certain direction. So it really becomes how you handle the pressure you put on yourself and it becomes a mental game of getting yourself in the same mindset, the same routine and the same rhythm. So for me, I was never a guy that watched film and never studied technique. I would always go back to rhythm. I had a DVD of Jason Hanson kicking, and whenever I felt I was getting off (track), I would go watch that DVD and his rhythm was exactly what I wanted and when it was on, it was smooth. I think that was what I always went back to when you were getting a little off – it’s the rhythm and the timing of the whole thing.
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