Kinect Sports Rivals

My solution is a twist on "Shanevolution" and "GuitarSLAY3R's". I found this on xboxachievements.com (thanks "DOA hed" and "Baihu1983") and added my own experience. So, this is definitely a community solution. :-)

1. Play with a buddy online and try to keep the score 0-0, or at least tied before time runs out. This way you can go indefinitely.
2. Play the "Hard" level (the one with the red in the meter) as there are 2 strikers (right term?) and one of them is usually a header, which is usually the person on the left.
3. On offense, try to keep the ball to the left and end up passing to the guy who does headers.
4. As the ball is in the air, hop up and down so the ball has a better chance of arriving at the goalie's shoulders instead of knees. If you're good at timing it, you may not need to hop like an idiot like I did. lol
5. Now, on the goalie side, as the ball is traveling toward the striker, put both arms out in front, a little more that shoulder width apart. I looked like I was holding the handlebars in wake racing.
6. just as the striker heads the ball, do a slow, forward lunge keeping your arms out in front. (Basically take a 3-4 foot step forward with one leg and bend your knees. If you remember the Friends episode where Joey was wearing all of Chandler's clothes and he was sweaty and doing lunges, it looks like that.) Found a link: 7. Once you get the timing right, this works pretty well. It took a couple games to get the timing in step 6, but once I did, I had 4 punches out of 5 attempts. Once I taught my buddy, he had 4 in a row.

I apologize in advance for my weak definition of a lunge. :-) lol

This wasn't working at all for me playing against the AI or locally against another person. Did punch out 4 shots in one single game at least 7 or 8 times without no luck.

Then I've played a match online and there the cheevo unlocked immediately after punching out the 4 shots.

This is definitely glitched. I've tweeted Rare about it. Hope this helps anybody who's still struggling with this one.

I was able to get this achievement quite easily by playing against a Rival's AI (drivatar, avatar, whatever). From the Island Menu go to My Game. Select Friends List. Select a friend that is highlighted (alternatively use a second account on your box or add my GT: Antares Maximus). Along the type it will offer Vs Rival activities, select a soccer one. As soon as I punched out the 4th one the achievement unlocked - no glitches or having to punch out more than 4 times. The hardest part is getting the timing of the punches right, you don't want to punch too early. I even missed a couple in the same game and still got the 4 and the achievement.

This solution is similar to GuitarSLAY3R's.

What you want to do is grab a friend and do this online. You want to extend both arms out straight at the kinect, and keep them close together while punching continuously in unison. 4/5 times you will punch out the ball. To know if you successfully punched it, it will go zipping across the screen to the last player infront of the opponents goal for you to kick/headbutt in. This is also a good way to get the headbutt goals done as 50% of the time it gives you the option to headbutt the ball.

This achievement is GLITCHY. It took me 12 or 13 punch outs before I finally got it. I'm not 100% sure if you have to actually score a goal or not or if it will automatically pop as I got the 13th punch out, but scored accidentally and saw it pop. Most importantly, keep the score at 0-0. The timer will never run out giving you the most amount of chances to get this.

Good luck to those going for it, just takes patience.

I just got this achievement today with Chatt Townkilla, we found that if you pass the ball to the player taking the shot with a ground pass then lift your knee to pop the ball up for a high volley, it gives plenty of time to get their head in reticle with arms extended in front of them that it will trigger the punch.

Timing didn't matter but precision did. No crazy movements, just on target. Once we figured this out we both popped the achievements within a couple games. No glitches, no troubles.

Hope this helps