Kohl's Kicking Showcase - The Best High School Kickers in the country

[Music] this wind is brutal man that's a PR welcome to my life Welcome to my life on the bright side yeah this music here became my only LIF think I'm going crazy I'm not in my right mind on the bright side yeah yeah hey yeah one they got that br way homet asking my repetition from my chest that's a been seeing more behind the frame future feel the sh thinking ain't nobody feel the way I do but someone got to feel on the bright side yeah this music here became my only Lifeline think I'm going crazy I'm not in my right mind yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My Life yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My Life yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My hey guys welcome to the Vlog well today it's all about Colin and all about the kicking we are at a Kohl's showcase camp in Atlanta or just outside of Atlanta this is the Southeastern showcase it's our first one Colin's done a couple of the Cole's Camp maybe you've seen that actually we've done one camp and we did one lesson so this is our third thing to do with the Kohl's camp we really like the instruction and the structure of Kohl's so today it's kind of a showcase a little bit of a competition he's really started working with coaches and trainers like about a year ago so really still kind of new to the kicking even though he's been kicking since he was young but really getting the form and really kind of taking it seriously so today is kind of like you know let's let's go try out a showcase let's see what it's like you know kind of get a baseline for where he is you know what if he does great awesome if he bombs well you know what it's a learning lesson right like he'll learn kind of how these camps go and kind of what to do and again we're just trying to get better you know that's the big thing not competing against anybody really even though there's a competition really kicking is really competition against yourself you know a lot of kicking is mental you know so it's just kind of working on the mental game and just going out and trying to get better you know learn how to compete learn how to be a better Kicker thoughts Colin I don't know I guess we'll see a little nervous see what happens a little nervous a little bit a little bit yeah yeah I think this is like one of the biggest showcases they do is the Southeastern one and it rained pretty much all day yesterday stormed looks like it's a nice field so hopefully it drain well and maybe dries out so I really don't know what the conditions are like and it's going to be kind of overcast today which I guess is giving the sense that it's not going to get hot but I don't know if it's going to be windy so we really don't know not the ideal conditions but it is what it is we're here we're going to make the most of it all right let's go cheer khin on see how he does go get them bud I need you to roll with me on that you need to roll on the right here good zero Colin just tried some roll out py even though we're not even signed up for Ping but he hopped in and might as well try it it's pretty hard though wasn't it yeah I don't know how to hold of course it's going to be oh well something to work on maybe something to practice I'm coach Cole drill work may not seem like it's that important but that's really where we make a lot of decisions as charts tell us one story drill work head to-head what does that ball look like we're grading every ball we're filming some of it we are writing down notes does this athlete seem like he's under control or does he just want to get off stage and exit left and not come back be petrified of everybody watching and we're going to have competition everybody's going to have a competition that you have a chance to win for field goals we transition to punts punts then will work with the Snappers and then kickoffs five kickoffs you will average the top two so there's no warm-ups you have five kickoffs to hit two up top will be the field goal field we'll have six Active goal post six field goals With the Wind six field goals into the wind different distances and then we'll have some bonus kicks will be uh noted by where the cones are if you use a block we're going to make the bonus kicks farther it's going to be harder that offsets the advantage of using a block versus kicking off the ground okay you'll have a score of 15 points those are wide soccer goals 23 ft 6 in college they're 18 ft 6 in put it down the middle no problems it just got done with the intro really cool I mean Jamie Cole the owner talking about just the history of coals and just how much how far they've come and how big of a role they play and kickers getting to the next level kickers getting to college kickers going on to the NFL and of course it's a small percentage Cole's really has a great utation so anyways that's kind of neat you know he encourage the kids go out there do your best a day if you're young learn from mistakes it's okay if you don't do great older ones a little more pressure on you know as they're trying to get scholarships but anyways that's what we're here to do we're here to to kind of get that Benchmark here to kind of get that Baseline and just have the experience and just work on getting better you know he's still young he's still got three more years of high school kicking God willing so we're just here to learn get better I think he does his kickoffs first [Music] [Applause] B out 38 41 KH just finished doing the kickoff and I mean the kid naturally kicks it to the left I mean he's right footed kicker and I think most people naturally pull it they had him literally probably 10 yards from the fence like he was the furthest he could possibly be to the edge so he's the closest one to the edge three of them he kicked over the fence into the woods I don't know how that affects his charting the other two look pretty good they actually went in not real sure about the distance they may have been 50 yards I don't know I was hoping he'd get reduced because he's so close to the fence I mean those would have been in bounds in a in a games but because they're out here I I don't know if he got penalized for that I don't know if they counted that obviously they're not going to be very accurate figuring out where they landed because they went over the fence into the wood so I don't know how that's going to work it is what it is [Music] I can almost feel you walking in the distance but I know that is my reality if you are e going around inside this all Dimensions all alone now I'll find you when my [Music] [Music] dreams looks like here they go from the 35 the 40 and the 45 and they go from one side and they turn around go from the other side con start on the 40 made that missed the 45 and now he's on the right side about to kick a 45 oh man that was a good kick he just was just a little short which this is end of the wind right here so just a little short good kick though and that was 45 from the right hash this wind is brutal man just short just again good kick straight on just a wind pushed a little bit missed it from 40 maybe the next one missed that one too I don't know if you can see it's he's kicking straight into this wind and the wind has not been too bad right now it's said it's worst if he' have been kicking 10 minutes sooner he wouldn't had this strong win frustrating let's see where he kicks from next good well he missed five of the six they were all pretty good kicks though I mean they were straight on just and this win just really killed him so 35 40 and 45 yards I mean that's end the win that's it's kind of tough well let's see how I can do on the next ones sweet now we're kicking with the wind in our back for the long ball and he just made his first long kick which was 55 good job all right so both those 60s were no good just too short and we've never hit one of those in practice um honestly 55 is a it's a PR 55 53 somewhere around there that's a PR 50 was the best the 60 has a long way we'll get there we'll get there all right so he's about to move back up to another 55 and then he'll hit 53s maybe and then a 48 2 48 I think somewh around there pretty straight kick good kick just a little short from 53 like you had the distance just pulled that one a little bit well little tough went on the other and it hadn't even been blowing that hard until you went over there and then it started blowing pretty strong did they give you a score no it was just like how many you may out of you get you kick 12 May too yeah kicks look good though they were just a little short and that wind was killer dude I didn't get to warm up really my like my kicks on the longer side they were a lot better because I had like like the other six that did my other side with the wind it's like a w my basement I was hoping they would let you kick a few like legit fi goals but that's the what it is for everybody yeah they were bigger hits all right well let's go grab lunch and come back and I guess it's drill work and competition or something like that [Music] we're back from lunch and it warmed up a little bit the punters are now doing a long ball competition so this is kind of the finals they've been kicking for a while now so these are the finalists let's go see some of these big bombs 44 42 71 okay okay not 74 [Applause] 77 I can almost feel you w w walking in that distance but I know that is my reality you just did a little drill work kind of an evaluation just kicking and let the coaches kind of evaluate a little bit so now they're about to do a kicking competition only get one shot got to make the 46 build Advance well didn't get a clean hit on it missed it a little short so all those that missed they're out here's the other group that's still going they're back up to 51 51 knocked out everyone but maybe two I think two are left out of our group couple other groups going four guys maybe made it from 56 so they're about to do a finalist competition here to see who can win it all two guys made it from that far distance I'm not sure how far far they are I'm back here behind the goal post he is the [Music] [Applause] winner showcase wrapped up we are on the road heading back and time to debrief a little bit we really hadn't got a chance to talk we just kind of small chat but I was saving it for the Vlog cuz I wanted to get his reaction so this was obviously our very first Cole's showcase first Showcase in general challenges to sophomore class of 2027 currently not sophomore yet well will be a sophomore yeah technically still freshman we haven't finished the school year just yet so what was your thoughts Colin I didn't do that great but it's not where you start it's where you finish Jamie Cole the the owner of the camp he was saying that the beginning of Camp he's like you know what it's not where you start it's where you finish there's a lot of great success stories of guys even kicking that are successful in the NFL that were wons they didn't get recruited out of out of high school so it's it's really a journey you know if you really want to pursue it again we got several more years and we thought you know what if this was a unsuccessful in the in the sense that we didn't do as good as we wanted to it's still a great learning experience you know you get to see what the Showcase is like how the competition goes you get to see a bunch of great phenomenal kickers like some of the best in the country I'm sure were there kids from all over and get to compete against them kind kind of see where you are and what are some things to improve on so yeah we miss some kicks they look good as far as accuracy just a little short in the wind and then turned around and kicking with the wind at her back those were like a lot farther since I had a te I had to kick from 60 yeah so that was kind of interesting there was a lot of kids that weren't using tees but we didn't realize they were kind of punishing you so to speak if you had a te push you back another five yard y three yards cuz they said that kind of balances out but we've never heard that I mean we're kind of new to kicking so good to know I don't know if we need to start practicing with it without a te but I mean you're allowed to use te's in high school but obviously in college you don't use te's at some point I guess you start weaning off the team so what about kickoff during my evaluation part I was on the way in of course and I normally pull it a little bit on kickoff and I end up pulling three of them over the side fence so know would have been inbounds in a game so Wednesday then we'll kind of know more about the valuations what were they saying during skill work anything like when you're kicking field goals it was supposed to be like a little bit of coaching period but yeah I didn't notice some coaches were actually giv advice but that guy didn't give you any advice did he no the kids in my group he was writing stuff down but he never told them like I heard one kid after he kicked he was like right down like needs more leg power or something he wrote that down but he never told the kid I do think he was doing part of the valuation so I think we'll see that he's going to write some evaluation it kind of tell you what maybe what are some strengths or areas to work on but yeah I guess we're just kind of waiting to see what the results look like what's an area that you need to work on consistency I guess well and I think that's for everybody honestly and then there were some kids with massive legs that could kick the ball a mile and same thing with punting it I mean I saw some rockets for punts but then the very next punt would be a shank you know like and I was just thinking in a game like yeah that's awesome if you boom one 60 70 yards or whatever but the next one if you shank it out of bounds that looks pretty bad and so I guess same thing with field goals I mean if you can kick a 60 y great but if you're missing 35 yarders for a game that's pretty critical so I do think being consistent is huge obviously with any kind of kicker so obviously working on that I think as we get older and bigger your your leg strength will improve as well they didn't really talk about any technique really did they how do you feel like you fair against the rest of the competition they never really split up by gr I don't even know really but even as the camp as a whole based off my performance not that great but but you also know your potential like you know that wasn't your best day you had some balls that you didn't strike well so you know what your potential is what I was hoping that we' kind of get a baseline you know where where do we stand as far as with some of the best kids in the country what are areas to work on to get more comfortable and you know hopefully we'll be back maybe next year and try it again and continue to work on some of these areas and you know we have a season coming up and see how the season goes do the best you can what all was Jamie saying at the very end of Camp punters work on the roll out kind of the Aussie style the roll out yeah so he was saying that's becoming more of a need and so he's going to start working on punters to be able to not just punt in the pocket but also be able to do a roll out and obviously we didn't go to punt although you did do a little roll out but that was that was kind of challenging wasn't it I didn't even know how to hold it on a roll out but yeah something to work on we maybe practice that a little bit overall I mean I think it was a good camp Obviously good experience learn from it build on it get better that's all you really can do so any of you young people out there if you're thinking about going to Cole's camp or showcase we think it was valuable looking forward to a successful year sophomore year kicking getting to be the starter this year for the varsity and just hopefully be an asset to the team appreciate you tuning in hopefully you learned a little bit more about Cole's showcase cuz I don't feel like there's a whole lot out there on it other than what Cole's puts out there like little Snippets so hopefully this Vlog help you understand a little bit more about the Showcase and on Colin's journey of trying to get better as a kicker all right guys we'll catch you in the next one appreciate you only I'm going crazy I'm not in my right mind yeah welcome to my life Welcome to My Life yeah on the bright side yeah this music here became my only Lifeline think I'm going crazy I'm not in my right subscribe my man mer Squad let's go let's go let's shout out to the boys Welcome to my life Welcome to My Life