Abstract: A portable football and soccer kicking training aid which holds and kicks a football or soccer ball in a trajectory, and with a force, simulating a ball kicked by a trained player. The training device is used by coaches in controlled practice sessions, to train and evaluate defensive and offensive lines and backs, and other players, in their response to kicked balls. The device provides repeated, reproducible kicked balls without requiring trained kickers to perform these routine functions or exposing them to injury. Optional, replaceable kicking shoes and other components provide alternate trajectories and forces. The device is readily portable and does not require fuel or connection to a power source.

Abstract: A football kicking training aid comprises a modified football having an attached patch on one or both ends, with Velcro.RTM. loop elements therein. The football is supported in place, for kicking by another player, by a user wearing a thimble or glove having Velcro.RTM. hook elements only at a fingerpad area thereof. The restriction of the Velcro.RTM. elements to the football patch and the fingerpad area of the glove or thimble urges the user to support the football only at the patch, and to continue supporting the football until the kicking action has been completed.