Hi All! I started kicking the distance of our wedding anniversary a couple years ago and good from 33 yds this past July. Looking forward to working with Mike on my mechanics as increasingly, as the years go by, will be more challenging!🤠

Malik WIllis is now the starting QB for the Miami Dolphins. His journey is one that any football player (or any athlete for that matter) should pay attention to. He's had plenty of success along the way, but he also had to face many uphill battles, too. • Overlooked during collegiate recruiting • Pushed out for a new recruit in college • Being benched just 3 games into an NFL season • Spending years as a back up to a star. Seems everyone LIKED him, but few WANTED him to be their QB. BUT, he didn't lose faith and just kept getting better until one day, it was hard to NOT notice that Malik is THE GUY! Instead of letting the early struggles define him, Willis says his focus became simple: “So what can you do? You can get better. You can not worry about that stuff. You just try to keep getting better.” — Malik Your kicking journey can be the same. If your WANT TO PLAY... play. All you can control is YOU. So be the best and see if it's enough. Make your WORK so irresistible to your coach, that he his CHOICE is to put you in the game. WATCH THIS INTERVIEW >

My full schedule of kicking and punting camps for this Spring & Summer is now finalized. We have camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota & Iowa! 12 camps, combines and competitions in total! For more info, go to the Mike Farley's Kickers Camp Summer-Camps page! NOTE: My camps are designed for middle & high school kickers/punters to get great personalized instruction : • to actually perform better • to earn your coach's trust to get more chances to kick • to better handle in-game pressure I employ college counselors to help out and I won't let you kick your leg out! 🤣 And if you're looking for exposure, I have three opportunities for you: 1) ) WLC Ignite Combine on 4/30 (I head up the specialist staff) 25+ NCAA coaches in attendance. 2) Minnesconsin MEGA CAMP on 6/17 (I head up the specialist staff) 60+ NCAA coaches in attendance! 3) Midwest Kicking & Punting Championship on 7/17 (I run the show, — 1000's of views on YT)! Check it out! _ _ _ If you can't make it to my camps, I highly recommend that you find a kicking camp in your area to go to. Mostly, we teach the same kinds of things, the difference often is how many reps you get and how personalized the instruction is for you. Even at showcase-type camps, just having the opportunity to compete with others who are both worse and better than you is great practice prior to your Fall football season. I don't endorse others kicking camps, because I don't go them (I'm busy enough with my own, thank you 😇), but you can certainly Google "Football kicking camps in my area" and you're bound to see a few pop up!

We just finished our first camp in the state of Iowa (Atlantic, IA) this past weekend. We had about a dozen campers from freshmen to seniors from all over the state. Longest drive (not counting my own 7 hour drive), was by our outstanding counselor Andrew Mohan (Jr. / Central College in Pella) about 3.5 hours away. The rest from Des Moines to Omaha. "Kids.... get to camp!" Mine, or another coaches camp. It's just good to get instruction and see how you stack up against your peers. It's usually a good motivator, both for those that find that they aren't as good as they thought, AND for those who find out that they are better than they thought. 😅

There are plenty of college "Mega Camps" around the country now. Universities now see the how they can get some quick money ($100/camper x 600+ kids) by putting on a combine while bringing in "friendly* programs and scouts" from other colleges to attract high schoolers to show off what they can do. Everyone wins... but know that it's not the "be all end all" thing many think it is. The real trick is that you get to see how you stack up against kids just like you. As a specialist, you're lucky to get a handful of the scouts who've come there to watch the kickers. They're there mostly to find one good QB, receiver, runningback and big man. You're the after-thought. However, at this week's Minnesconsin MEGA CAMP at UW-River Falls, I headed up the testing and ran about 30 kids through the kicking and punting gauntlet in about an hour and a half. My job was to give them the chance to be seen. We had some really good kids there... and some who need a lot more training... but ALL got the chance to feel some pressure, get official stats and as I said before... you get to see how good you really are. For many, it's an eye-opener, for some, it is a BIG CONFIDENCE BOOSTER. *"friendly" - meaning they don't invite coaches from their own conference, so they have friends in other divisions typically, who come in. In the case of UW-River Falls, you won't find UW-Whitewater or UW-La Crosse there (WIAC), but you will see U of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, South Dakota State, Northern Michigan and schools like St. Olaf and Minnesota State.