Dual Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe has opened up about his goal-kicking demons as he prepares for extra time up ahead this season.
Fyfe, who this week stepped down as Fremantle captain after six years within the job, admits he went to “hell and back” mentally with a goal-kicking drawback he felt got here out of nowhere.
The 31-year-old has kicked simply 12.25 over the previous two seasons, together with his finest return 3.1 in opposition to St Kilda in spherical 17 final 12 months.
“I really had to go to hell and back with my mental game on my goal-kicking because it became quite a burden to step out there in front of the goals. I created this problem myself and I had to figure out a way to get through it,” Fyfe advised Code Sports.
“You go from being completely confident and everything subconsciously just coming to light, clear of mind, to all of a sudden you have a bunch of demons for different reasons. The goal-kicking one sort of developed out of nowhere.
“I kicked seven points, all in general play, in the start of 2021. Then I kicked a couple of goals and a couple more points from set shots and all of a sudden, I had this goal-kicking problem, which I kind of created myself, and then it got worse and worse.”
Fyfe now feels in an amazing house to have an effect in assault after placing within the work throughout the pre-season, however insists his goal-kicking received’t be a “finished product” by Fremantle’s opening-round conflict in opposition to the Saints at Marvel Stadium on March 19.
“There’s a couple of ways you can go. You can kind of just stop taking shots and accept that you’ll always be a bad goal-kicker, or you can do the work and get through it and keep failing until you figure it out,” he defined.
“That’s sort of where I’m at, at the moment. I feel like I’m in a great space to be able to get some good results from that.
“I’m starting to feel some synchronicity with how I’m hitting the ball and situations and feeling really confident in front of the goal.
“It won’t be a finished product when I step out round one, that’s for sure. But I’m confident that if I keep squeezing intention into it that the results will come.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
