Orin's defection: the punt as a dancerly kick serve
his motion—a dancerly combination of moves and weight-transfers every bit as complex and precise as a kick serve—got more instinctive and he found his ham-strings and adductors loosening through constant and high-impact competitive punting, his left cleat finishing at 90° to the turf, knee to his nose
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The body's training proves portable across sports: Orin's punt is "a dancerly combination of moves and weight-transfers every bit as complex and precise as a kick serve," the tennis-drilled instrument simply re-tasked — hamstrings and adductors loosening through repetition, the left cleat finishing "at 90° to the turf, knee to his nose." What made him a serve-and-lob player makes him a punter: the same conditioned kinetic chain, the same repetition-won instinct. The athletic body carries its regimen with it; the sport is almost incidental to the machine.