Call them skinny field goal posts, narrow uprights, thinner goal posts, or arena uprights. The Pro-Posts are a second set of uprights (9 feet) attached to the inside of the standard-width uprights (18 feet 6 inches.) It narrows the space that a kicker can make a kick for practice. Kickers who aim small on Pro-Posts, miss small in games.

Since 2002, the most common margin of victory in the NFL has been 3 points with 418 games out of 2,668 games. This is equivalent to 15.67% of games finishing with a 3 point difference between the winner and loser at the end of the game (sporting charts).

Pro-Posts create a narrower channel, forcing kickers to concentrate on kicking through a much more difficult target. Kickers have to make more accurate kicks in practice, which translates to more points in games. Combined with the Simple Kicking App, kickers significantly increase the chances of winning more games.

These graphs are built from ESPN Stats and represents college teams with greater than 10 field goal attempts: https://es.pn/31UkKjN

THE PRO-POSTS™ CLAMP ONTO A CROSSBAR SPLITTING THE UPRIGHTS IN HALF (9 FEET.) DECREASING A PLACEKICKER’S TARGET DECREASES THE MARGIN OF ERROR. FOCUSING ON A SMALLER TARGET, NEW PRACTICE HABITS ARE CREATED.

Field goal percentage was 45% better & The precision increased 41% (kicks clustered around the perfect center.)

Imagine a game-winning field goal attempt… everyone knows it, if you make the kick then you win, otherwise you miss… so you trot onto the field, choose your target, find your spot, line your steps from the holder’s mark, glance at your target once more and nod to your holder. In an instant, a thought comes to mind, “I know that I’m prepared, and I trust myself because I have made kicks on skinny uprights.” Placekickers are creatures of habit. When they aim small, they miss small. As Pat McAfee says, they do it “For the Brand.” Arena field goal posts are 9 feet wide, College and Professional uprights are 18 feet, 6 inches (18.5 feet), and High School regulation uprights are 23 feet, 4 inches (23.3 feet.) For example, playing for a Coach from the Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA), a kicker who has skinny Pro-Posts aims at 40% of the regulation crossbar. That means when he kicks into a game the uprights look nearly 3 times as wide. Similarly, a college football or NFL kicker sees uprights that are more than twice as wide. In a crunch time kick, more kicks are made because there is more room to make the kick versus in practice.

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