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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the punch shot.

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So I've got my 7 iron here with the loft tool and we're going to use this shaft

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to represent

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the ground because before we get into the mechanics of how we're going to hit

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this punch

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shot, I want you to understand essentially what we're trying to do and why.

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So it's hard to understand a punch shot unless you talk about a concept called

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spin loft.

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Now spin loft is essentially the difference between the dynamic loft and the

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angle of

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the tech.

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So if this is the ground right here and let's say this is straight up and now

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like so, let's

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say this is pretty close to how I hit my normal 7 iron, you'll see that there's

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an angle formed

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between the ground and the club face.

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It's going to be the dynamic loft.

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Now if we include the angle of the tech, so a club coming down like this would

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have less

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spin loft than a club coming down like so.

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So what ends up happening in a punch shot, we're going to try to get it to

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launch low

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and with a little less spin.

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So to help it launch low, we're going to move this back.

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Now that will cause us to have a little bit more or a little bit less dynamic

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loft like

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so.

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But the problem is if we increase the angle of the tech by about the same

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amount, we don't

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really change the spin loft profile and so we end up getting about the same

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amount of

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spin.

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But what we're going to have to do is even though we're playing it back, we're

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going

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to try to come in as shallowly as we can.

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It's virtually impossible.

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We're going to increase our angle of the tech by moving the ball back, but we

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're going

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to make some stance adjustments and some swing adjustments to help create this

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downward spin.

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So let's go through the technique of what we're going to do and how we're going

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to do

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it in order to maximize or to decrease this spin loft and maximize the distance

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that we

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can get with a really low launching club.

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So now that we have a basic understanding of this spin loft concept, let's talk

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about

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what we're going to do with this punch shot in order to apply that.

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Now there's three major keys that we're going to cover with this punch shot.

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One is going to be set up, which is basically just going to be shoulders a

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little bit more

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level, ball a little bit more back.

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The second is going to be the follow through, which helps kind of shallow out

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this steep

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set up that we've created.

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So the second one, the shallowing out is going to come largely from having the

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stance a little

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bit open as well as having the hands work a little bit more left through the

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shot.

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And the third thing is we're going to minimize or take away one of our power

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sources because

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by decreasing the spin loft, we're going to get more roll out of it.

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If we were to increase the speed, we'll increase the spin and it may not

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necessarily end up

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like a punch shot, it might just be kind of a low stock swing.

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So let's go over these three pieces.

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So the setup first, if this is my, let's do my full procedure.

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So I've got my grip, got my left foot turned out, and I've got my ball position

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somewhere

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off my left inner thigh, left ear, whichever is more comfortable for you.

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So for this punch shot, I'm going to play the ball a little bit closer to my

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right ear

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similar to what we do in the distance wedge.

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In fact, a lot of what we do with this punch shot is going to be very similar

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to a distance

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wedge just with a club that has less loft on it.

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So it's going to be a little bit more off this right ear, right side.

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And then to account for the fact that I've got the ball position further back

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and then

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I'm going to be hitting down on it, I'm going to open my stance.

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Now, one of your kind of goals when you're playing around with this on the

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range is to

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figure out how far back can you go and still hit good shots, how open do I need

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to go

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with my body to still get it to fly straight, all those little factors.

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But that's my basic setup.

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Upper body is leaning a little bit more level.

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Ball position back kind of looks just like so.

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So then the second piece is what are we going to do in the follow through to

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kind of help

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shallow out the fact that we've set up with all these extra little steeps.

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So I've got my stance going left, ball position back.

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The big thing is I'm going to, if I was to make kind of my normal move, you

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could see

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that the club would be coming straight into the ground because of how I've kept

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my shoulders

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a little bit more on top of the ball, a little bit more in front and a little

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bit more level.

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So if I was to go like so, that club would just dig straight in the ground,

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which would

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give me a very small margin for air.

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So what I'm going to do is when I get into kind of the second stage of that

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release, I'm

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going to let my hands work a little bit more left and around and that left side

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is going

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to help by kind of raising up like so.

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So it'll look kind of something like that.

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Now the third piece is taking away one of my power sources.

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So I can, in this case, I like to use whatever your dominant power source is

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and then take

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away whichever is kind of your least power source.

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So in my particular case, or I guess I should say, the two most common that I

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see are you're

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either going to quiet your lower body or you're going to quiet your wrists.

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You're still going to use your core and your trunk and your shoulders pretty

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much the same

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way you would in your stock full swing.

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So in my particular case, I would tend to quiet more the wrist.

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So I'd have a little bit shorter arm swing and a little bit less wrist set, a

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little bit

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less of this downclock, kind of more like the distance wedge swing, but I would

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still

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release my hands through the shot.

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They would just be covering a little bit smaller range of motion.

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The other option, if you're more of an upper body kind of spin type player,

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would be to

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really just quiet that lower body, get a little bit more on top and then have

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your swing be

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upper body arms hands and kind of quiet the lower body.

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So I'll try and demonstrate those two.

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You'll see that one of them is a lot more comfortable for me, but that's why

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you want

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to know your pattern, know your swing and go out and practice it.

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So here's my good setup position and then there's my kind of dead hands model,

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which

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is more of what I use.

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So it had a little bit shorter arm swing, a little bit less wrist set.

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Now we'll try and do, let me prep that upper body spin movement.

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So you'll see it's quite difficult for me to quiet my lower body, but that's a

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little

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bit more of that kind of three piece upper body punch shot.

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Both of them work equally effectively as well.

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It's really just more is what your pattern of movement is and which you'd be

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more comfortable

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using.

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But practice both of them on the range, see which one works best for you and

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then don't

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be scared to pull this on the course.

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Anytime you're trying to flight something a little bit low, it shots into the

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wind or

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get out of trouble.