How to Do the Banana Kick in Soccer

Video Transcript

"Now, what I want to talk about is a little bit more advanced, it's called the banana kick. And, basically banana kick is just putting a lot of spin on the ball with your kick to make it curve. And, spin is achieved like any other sport. Like ping-pong, tennis, all the top spin stuff. It's hitting the ball like that and making it spin. So, with your foot you have to graze it but you still want to hit the center of the ball and just spin it. So, its more like. Another way to achieve banana kick is by using the other side of your foot. And, you can shoot it or do long passes or regular passes, its just a little bit more advanced. And so when you come up to it, instead of coming up to it at this angle. Like that, which is the regular angle, you come up to it straight and you hook the ball the other way. So, it looks like that. And, this is good for corner kicks so you can bend them in to the people running back door or you can bend them into the goal. It's all about getting that slice into it but still maintaining the power through the center of the ball."