You have now made your decision of what to do with the ball that falls in line with your team’s game model so now you move to phase 3 being skill/technique which refers to what skill and/or technique do I need to use to make this decision successful.
What you need to take into account here are constraints (things that restrict what you can do right now), affordances (things that present opportunities for you right now), what they are and how can use work around or with them.
Does the player I am about to kick to prefer softer kicks than hard kicks?
If I don’t kick it straight enough then do they have the ability to quickly react to the ball and be able move to make the mark?
Does the receiver prefer to receive the ball in open space v closed space?
Is there a wind that could throw my kick off line?
Is the ball slippery which might affect my ball drop and ball contact?
Has an oppsootion playerbeen dragged out of the tight spacde by another teammate providing the affordance of extra space to 1 side of my designated target?
Is the player on the mark close (constraint) or far away (affordance) from me?
What do I need to alter if they are close to me?
If I don’t move away from them what type will I have to do?
If I do move away from them then what other kicks are open to me now?
All these thoughts and more again occur in a split second but it is all this information that now brings you to your technique as now you know what type of kick you need to do.
This is another reason why kicking mechanics assessment is way overrated in my book because every single kick you do in a game, even set shot goial kicking, is different as they are all performed under different conditions (distance, angle, ground side etc).
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