Check Side

**Doctor J.** · 19 July 2005, 09:18 PM

Re: Re: Re: Check Side

Originally posted by motorace_182
A Checkside is off the outside of the boot, usually used by a right footer deep in the right pocket to bend one back through the sticks

A Banana is off the inside of the foot. Neither are terribly accurate at hitting a target around the ground, but are useful when shooting from close tange on an angle. Probably better just to get yourself a left foot...

Um Noooooooo

A banana kick is the same as a check side.

Check side is the SA term. Never used to describe any type of kick in any game of footy I played or watched prior to the introduction of genuine state of origin, between Vic & SA.

Only grew legs as a definition for a kick cause bloody Ch7 had Sandy Roberts (SA expat) who never tired of referring to the kick as a bloody "check side". Was, is, and always has been a banana kick!!!

Got no idea what a kick of the inside of the boot is called, but it aint a "banana".

***NMWBloods*** · 19 July 2005, 10:08 PM

Dr J is correct.

Most players kick bananas because they can't kick wrong foot. Commentators rave about how skillful their boomerangs/checksides are, but I think it illustrates the lack of a basic skill in football.

BTW - A kick off the inside of the foot is called a mis-kick if you plan for it to go in the same direction as the foot you used. Otherwise using the inside of the foot is simply kicking around the corner, which too many players do these days instead of straightening up.

**Snowy** · 19 July 2005, 10:14 PM

Good point about players not being dual-sided employing the banana. I've seen it a lot, quite often big men are culprits for whatever reason.

**chammond** · 19 July 2005, 10:38 PM

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Dr J is correct.

Most players kick bananas because they can't kick wrong foot.

Spot on. It always makes me shudder to see Bazza or MOL try to screw the ball with the outside of the boot, especially from set shots.

If it's close range, kick with the other foot. If it's long range just kick it straight.

How many times did you see Plugger kick a banana shot?

**FootyontheBrain** · 19 July 2005, 10:43 PM

Interesting, the history lesson here. Having come to the game only 8 years ago, I always thought the check side was off the outside and a banana was off the inside or as some have said around the corner.

You can talk about the fundamentals of using both sides of one body, but I would suggest both options have a place in today's game, and it's good to see our guys doing it well.

**ScottH** · 20 July 2005, 05:35 AM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Check Side

Originally posted by Doctor J.
Got no idea what a kick of the inside of the boot is called, but it aint a "banana".

It is either a shank or a torpedo. Depends how it comes off the boot.

**sharp9** · 20 July 2005, 08:59 AM

Off the inside ain't a banana (although it is in soccer if you get enough bend on it)...off the inside is a "snap." Snaps don't usually bend too much but if they do they are snaps which are "bending back towards goal.....not enough, another point to the Pies."

**Mike_B** · 20 July 2005, 09:34 AM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Check Side

Originally posted by ScottH
It is either a shank or a torpedo. Depends how it comes off the boot.

I find that a torpedo rolls off the outside part of the boot (but with the ball still lengthwise) to give it the necessary action on the ball.

**ScottH** · 20 July 2005, 10:23 AM

I always thought it was the inside. Maybe that is why I can't kick them.

**Ruck'n'Roll** · 20 July 2005, 10:38 AM

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Most players kick bananas because they can't kick wrong foot. Commentators rave about how skillful their boomerangs/checksides are, but I think it illustrates the lack of a basic skill in football.

It's interesting that they see a banana as proof of skill, yet no-one mentions the disappearance of it's parent, the torpedo. Using a banana to shoot for goal is acceptable yet coaches see the torp as high-risk and to be avoided.

**giant** · 20 July 2005, 10:39 AM

I've always known the kick off the inside as a screw kick, and the outside as a banana kick. Both have completely legitimate uses when you're trying to bend a ball "around corners". For most players a right foot banana is easier than a left foot screw kick.

Speaking of non-natural foot/hand use (in a non-pornographic sense), did anyone see Ricciuto's left hand hadball that covered 30m the other day? Most (and I mean about 80%) AFL players don't seem to be able to use their non-natural hand for a handball so Roo's effort highlights his class.

**Schneiderman** · 20 July 2005, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by giant
did anyone see Ricciuto's left hand hadball that covered 30m the other day? Most (and I mean about 80%) AFL players don't seem to be able to use their non-natural hand for a handball so Roo's effort highlights his class.

Leppitsch is the other.

***NMWBloods*** · 20 July 2005, 10:55 AM

Voss also prefers to handball with his left hand.

I saw Cam Mooney do a 30m handball against Port.

**motorace_182** · 20 July 2005, 01:25 PM

I've always been taught many coaches at footy training that the check side was off the outside of the foot, and the inside a banana... its not only my belief but also others that I know that have played footy for some time now.