The Soccer Bicycle Kick

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A soccer bicycle kick, even known as scissors and overhead kick is an athletic move in soccer which is performed by throwing your body up into the air. The bicycle kick name comes from the two legs that look as if pedaling a bicycle while performing it. In soccer there are two major situations where the bicycle kick can be pretty useful:

• When playing defender and you want to clear the ball from your penalty kick area with wrong turned back

• Playing as a striker and having your back to the opponent’s goal

When you start to practice on your bicycle kick moves, it may hurt a little. To give you an idea about how much it hurts, you could have a friend punching you in the back with force. If your friend is strong enough to knock the wind out of you, it will give you an idea about what it feels like.

To avoid this feeling you could try to practice on a soft ground in the beginning. After the bicycle motion becomes more natural you could try to perform it on grass.

A bicycle kick is not something you will learn under a single practice; instead you have to spend many hours on practicing it. You must feel that performing a bicycle kick is something natural. It’s also important that you are not afraid when practicing on your bicycle kick, because it will just hurt more.

Of course it is easy to say for me, but when I started to practice on bicycle kicks many years ago, my parents wondered what the heck I was doing because half of my body was full of bruise.

How to score a goal with a bicycle kick?
To score a goal with a bicycle kick you need to master several moments:

1. Try to always kick the ball with accuracy
2. Hit the goal
3. Land safely

As you can see it’s not just about throwing your body in the air and hope for the best, instead, you need to practice, practice and practice again to become skillful on this kick method.

Performing a soccer bicycle kick will always be risky. It’s not just about keeping yourself safe, instead, you have to keep in mind that you could actually hit an opponent’s head instead of the ball and therefore you must always analyze the particular situation.

But… the feeling of a goal scored with bicycle kick is something you must experience by yourself to know what I am talking about, Good Luck