Generally, your body alignment will not be facing the goal. If you’re kicking the ball with your inside right foot, your body will be faced slightly to the right of the target. If you’re kicking the ball with your inside left foot, your body will be faced slightly to the left of the target.
Look at the ball straight on as if it were a circle and imagine a cross (+) across the center of it. For a right-footed strike, hit the bottom right quadrant of the ball. For a left-footed strike, hit the bottom left quadrant of the ball.
Lean back if you want the ball to go up or lean forward if you want to curl the ball downwards. This technique can be performed using any kick with the same results.
Keep your plant foot stationary as you prepare to kick the ball and then eventually kick it. Moving your plant foot will interfere with the continuous motion of your kicking foot, leeching power from your shot.
Right-footed players are trying to get the ball to spin clockwise by hitting it on the outside of their foot and then moving the foot left, across their body. Left-footed players are trying to get the ball to spin counter-clockwise by hitting it on the outside of their foot and then moving the foot right, across their body.
