Put your ‘plant’ foot about 6 inches away from the ball. Strike the ball like your foot is a golf club: try to get ‘under’ the ball. Lean back as you kick it to get it in the air. Then ‘follow through’ with your kicking leg – after it makes contact with the ball, keep that thing swinging up up up. (And then, FOLLOW YOUR SHOT! Don’t shoot and stand there looking at it – your first shot isn’t likely to go in, but if it bounces off the keeper, that second shot will be an easy goal!)