 In this video, I'll show you how I take penalties in soccer. I went through a period of missing way too many penalties, but with a few changes, I'm much more consistent. Check out these tips and hopefully it will help you do the same. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views, I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. So number one, you want to take the penalty. As soon as the foul is committed, you're the guy who steps up and says, yes, I am confident I am going to score this thing. When everyone else is looking around saying who's going to take it, you're coming to get the ball. Okay, so number one, you have to want to take it and two, believe that you can actually score. So when you put that ball down on the spot, in your mind, you're not thinking about missing. You're not thinking about everyone being upset. You're thinking about being confident. You're thinking this is a goal. This is another goal on my stats. This is another goal that's going to help my team win. Okay. Everything that you're thinking is about putting the ball in the net. I don't feel like I'm too centered. We'll go like that. Okay, so traditionally, if people tell you, come up, pick your spot, know where you're going to go. Hit it there with pace. Hit it there with purpose. Okay. So if I'm approaching the penalty and I want to hit it, don't miss the net like that. And that's the only problem I have with that. I hit a good shot, but it was a bit too hard. Now personally, I've gone through that. I've hit good penalties and I've hit too many posts more than I would like. So what I've done, started to do is I take a different approach to penalties. Okay. I set up like I'm going to do the exact same thing. So I set up like I'm going to whip it into the top corner or whip it into the bottom corner and I'll come back like I'm going to do a big run up and I'll start sprinting at the ball. But then at this second, right before I hit it, I look up and I see what the keeper is going to do. And if I see that he went to that side, just a little bit. If he just took one step, then I'm just going to calmly pass it in the other corner. So I want you to be cautious when you're taking this advice because if you don't have the presence of mind, if you don't have the calmness and the confidence and when you get your head up to look at the keeper, you're saying, oh crap, rather than I know exactly where I'm putting this, then you're probably going to miss. Okay. So don't hesitate. Again, put the ball down. I'm sprinting up here like I'm going to kill it. And then I see that his body position went a little bit that way. So I just put it in the other corner. So number one, confidence. You want to take the penalty. You want to score the goal. Number two, everything going in your mind is saying positive things about, yes, this is going in the net. I'm going to score. I'm going to win this game for my team. The next thing is your choice. So I want you to do whatever is comfortable for you. I choose what's comfortable for me, but you need to do what's best for you. And like I said, I've hit a lot of penalties in my day. We'll go again. Ready? And you can take that approach, hit a nice hard penalty into either corner. If that works for you, then that's what I want you to do. However, for me personally, I've hit too many posts. I've missed the net a couple of times where I've hit a really hard shot, but the keeper made a great save. And I feel taking this new approach by looking at the keeper and reacting to what he does. I increased my chances of scoring the penalty. So one thing I want to say when you're doing this, the reason I can get away with this and other players don't is because I act like I'm about to run up and blast as hard as I can. There's no hesitation in my stride until I'm at this point. And then I react to him. What some people do is they have a very hesitant, very slow run up. So their run up is more like this. And they're watching the keeper, but the keeper knows that he's waiting for him to dive so he can react quickly. Maybe not today, but on a different day. Okay, so when you're doing that, if you're going to choose that method, act like you're sprinting at that ball. You're going to hit it full force. And then at the last second, get your head up and pick your spot. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.