How hard did you have to kick the rudder?
If you kick it, you're doing it too hard. Pilots who talk of kicking the rudder are using misleading terminology which may lead students to over control - because you need to "squeeze" it.
You squeeze the rudder until the nose is pointing straight down the runway, simultaneously countering any wing lift with aileron (if you apply right rudder, the left wing will lift, so you use left aileron to stop that lift).