Jayden Hunt had been selected as Melbourne's representative in the Longest Kick competition on Grand Final Day. He joins Bryce Gibbs as the only other named competitor announced so far. 

The Longest Kick is an attempt to kick 75 metres across Melbourne’s Yarra River.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/longest-kick

 

Name – Jayden Hunt

Club – Melbourne

Junior Club – East Sandringham

Age – 22

Nickname – Hunty

Torpedo or drop punt? Torpedo

Secret to kicking long? All about height and the connection

Longest Kicker you’ve seen? Lynden Dunn

Teammate who couldn’t kick over a jam jar? Jordan Lewis

How will you prepare during the week for Longest Kick? Try kicking over my house

What would you do with the 10k prize money? A lot of choccy milk

In case you need a refresher. 

 

Jayden will use his awesome acceleration to Torpedo a victory!!!

Hunt punt

Hunt punt i like it. We should get his fav chocolate milk brand as a sponsor for him.

Was his barrel in Darwin ever accurately measured?

Would It have travelled 65m?

1 minute ago, McQueen said:

Was his barrel in Darwin ever accurately measured?

Would It have travelled 65m?

certainly more. how much, i'm not sure as the footage doesn't show where it landed. he was probably >60m <65m out when he kicked it.

2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

certainly more. how much, i'm not sure as the footage doesn't show where it landed. he was probably >60m <65m out when he kicked it.

Yeah, I'm tending to agree after watching the vision a couple of extra times. Closer to 130m I reckon.

It was at least 70m.

Would be curious to see who is consistently the longest kick in the team. I would have thought Hibberd would go close.

 

Lynden Dunn and Trent McKenzie (GC) are the consistently longest kicks in the comp.

WOS flashbacks

This clip shows the Hunt punt from two angles - the behind the kick view most often shown and the wide angle view which gives a much better perspective on the distance of the kick. In my view, it looks like he kicks from about 12-15 metres behind the 50 metre line and the ball travels 5-10 metres over the goal line. That would make it a 67 to 75 metre kick.  

Am I right in thinking that Hunt's goal hasn't made goal of the year contenders? I didn't see him in Marngerook's footy show run through of goals and marks of the year. If so not happy, how many dribble goals can you award, as great as they are, but they are common these days. 

9 hours ago, Thrice said:

Lynden Dunn and Trent McKenzie (GC) are the consistently longest kicks in the comp.

You can add Shannon Hurn to that list. Can seriously roost a ball.

Witnessed the Jayden Hunt torpedo from the Marrara grandstand that night. Told my missus "he won't kick this" . Confounded quite a few of us, including crowbot ruckman Jenkins who got an almighty shock and rushed to the goal line in an attempt to spoil. The ball sailed metres  above his head closer to top of the goal post. While not a 'classic' torpedo punt (ball spin was out of whack) a very long kick nonetheless. From memory the goals at Marrara have nets so the final length of the goal kick may well have been impeded.

It was actually measured fairly accurately here 

 

5 hours ago, homsar said:

It was actually measured fairly accurately here 

 

WTF was that!

On 9/21/2017 at 1:17 PM, beelzebub said:

WOS flashbacks

Yeah, but they'll need to convert to feet and inches and they need to set up goal and point posts to measure accuracy as well as distance.

Toby Greene might be a dark horse for the kicking comp ...