In the Old-fashioned Day Footy a Drop Kick and a Stab Kick were the best methods of passing the ball to the advantage of a team mate. Today a drop punt is called but a stab punt is not. Both these kicks are being kicked today as field passes. Just because the stab kick, which was introduced into Aus...

When is the first written record of the Drop Kick & the Drop Punt being used and by whom in Australian RL? I watch a little RL but know enough to know I now very little. Their skills in the drop punt would appear to me to be becoming more skillful. See below the first records, I have found re wh...

Re'The most skilful sport by cos789". There are two ways of showing you don't know what you are talking about. One is to say you don't know and the other is to say something that shows you you don't. The stab kick was never thrown on to the boot. A better description would be it was placed on t...

THE STAB PUNT INVENTED “THE SCIENCE OF KICKING” published 2007 THE STAB PUNT: The authors have coined the term “ stab punt” because it describes perfectly the mechanics of this shorter-range and highly accurate pass. It should not be confused with the “stab kick, a drop kick popularized by players l...