The final section in special teams is pumps. And for pumps, there's really only three main points I want to address. And the first one I'm going to just jump right in and talk about and that is to pay attention to what it is and know when a pump is taking place. I can tell you firsthand as it's happened to me, and it's happened to almost everybody who shoots for me, there's been a game in a situation where the cameraman did not know what was fourth down, did not know the team was punting and frame the shot as if it were a regular runner a pass play without realizing that the punter was 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage, waiting for a punt and he wasn't included in the shot initially. Then the ball gets hiked, it goes off camera, and only then does the cameraman realize that this is a punt, and he has to adjust.

So please make sure you know what down it is pay attention to the game so that you're ready for a punt and that you can frame it properly. That's really step one. For step two, we're going to say that we should not include the punt returner in the shot pre snap and you can see a perfect example. What I'm talking about right here, this is almost a perfect way to frame your shot pre snap, we can see that the right most player, the punter is to the edge of the right side of the screen, and the leftmost player here is on the left edge of the screen. The punt returner is actually the left most player, but to include him, we wouldn't have to be so wide as to be about 50 yards further away, and we would not be able to see any detail. If the kick were blocked, we really wouldn't see jersey numbers of the player who did it.

So this is ideal for pre snap framing on a punt. We do not want to include the punt returner. In fact, here's what it looks like if we do include the punt returner. Obviously, there's no ability to see detail. You can't make out jersey numbers and as you see this play play out. It just takes you out of the game action completely to be this far away.

Unlike what we saw back in this first example. We're going to let this shot run now to see what happens when the ball is actually kicked because the dilemma is going to be whether you should include the ball or not to include the ball. My best advice is to Make sure that you always have players in the shot, go a little wider as the balls in the air and if the ball leaves the shot, let it go in favor of the players. This is similar to a passing play when we try to get to the receiver and we don't worry about the ball. We're going to watch this again here and you can see that the ball starts to go high, but once the ball goes higher than the shot, get back down. See the players and let's see the punt returners lining up to block and the coverage team coming down the field to try to make the tackle.

Here's a shot that's too wide to begin with. But it demonstrates how if the ball travels at a low trajectory, you can keep the ball and the players in the shot simultaneously, but start tighter and widen out when the balls kicked. like you see here. The punter kicks the ball we begin to widen out. If the ball leaves the shot, ignore it pushing only on the runner and treat it like a running play. Moving on here I mentioned that we should always be paying attention to know when it is a punt.

We should also be paying attention during the punt. Don't just expect the ball to kicked. Here's a situation where we have a fake punt the ball is snapped to the halfback instead, who takes off and instantly the cameraman must treat this like a running play. So be prepared for that. Also be prepared for this and Aaron's snap. The ball as you see goes over the punters head.

The cameraman instantly pushes in, does the right thing here finds the ref and films to safety being called. And don't forget to keep rolling at the end of a punch play in the same way you keep rolling at the end of a running play. Let the play breathe and give us time to see the jersey number of the player who made the tackle. That's pretty much it for punts. And thus that's pretty much it for our section on special teams. So we're moving on now to some of the extras things like penalties in the scoreboard.

I look forward to seeing you in that section.