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5'7" White Kid Dunks After 6 Months Training (1 Viewer)
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Statcruncher
Footballguy
Here's my response from the 2009 "Can you dunk?" thread.
My youngest is currently in basketball and the thought of training to dunk again has crossed my mind. Then I remember I'm closer to 50 than 40 and grab another beer. Can still get the rim though.Statcruncher said:
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TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
I once broke the backboard dunking on a pop a shot basket.
matuski
Footballguy
Instinctive
Footballguy
23, 6'2", play pickup 2-3 times a week here in law school.
If I had bigger hands I could dunk easily, but as is I can do the "one hand, one foot" around 1/6 times. Mostly I clang it off the back of the rim.
Pre-knee injury in college I could dunk with two hands off of one step. Trying to work back to that (I once had a thread on here about jump workouts that tracked building up to dunking originally).
Wasn't close in HS. Grew a few inches senior year, early college.
If I had bigger hands I could dunk easily, but as is I can do the "one hand, one foot" around 1/6 times. Mostly I clang it off the back of the rim.
Pre-knee injury in college I could dunk with two hands off of one step. Trying to work back to that (I once had a thread on here about jump workouts that tracked building up to dunking originally).
Wasn't close in HS. Grew a few inches senior year, early college.
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sublimeone
Footballguy
Let's say you are willing to dedicate 20 mins a week to increasing your vertical and you don't want to invest in any equipment etc... What's the best exercise/method bang for your buck?
belljr
Footballguy
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MikeIke
Footballguy
I could dunk as a 6'3" Freshman. As I grew older and taller I was able to do more fancy dunks - 2-handed, 360,under the rim Dr. J style, etc. We even had an alley oop play designed, and we used it.
One guy on my team and I were messing around before a game dunking, and the spring in the breakaway rim busted. Coach was pissed, but the guys on the other team were impressed that we had a rim-breaker. I didn't break it though, he did.
I'm 40 now and can still dunk but nothing like when I was young
One guy on my team and I were messing around before a game dunking, and the spring in the breakaway rim busted. Coach was pissed, but the guys on the other team were impressed that we had a rim-breaker. I didn't break it though, he did.
I'm 40 now and can still dunk but nothing like when I was young
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TLEF316
Footballguy
5'11. Could dunk a volleyball starting around my junior year of HS. Could reverse dunk anything smaller than that.
Was able to easily grab the rim with 2 hands (2 foot jump) with a gather step up until about 5 years ago. Then I had a string of injuries (2 horrendous ankle sprains) and then a fluke bout with sciatica (I was 26 at the time). It took nearly 2 months of 3x a week physical therapy to get back the point where I could stand for long enough to take a shower. My legs never came back after that. (to this day, I get these insane cramps/spasms in my left leg. It looks like an alien is going to pop out of my calf)
Now I'm 31 and can barely touch the rim. Pretty sad actually. I could probably do much better if I actually got in the gym and worked at it. But at this point, I'm in good enough shape to play in 2 leagues (where we usually only have 5 or 6 guys per team) which is good enough for me. I'd honestly worry about landing on someone if I actually got back the point where I could get up a little bit. Being able to grab the rim again would be nice, but any sort of serious fall would really screw me up at work. Not really worth it.
Was able to easily grab the rim with 2 hands (2 foot jump) with a gather step up until about 5 years ago. Then I had a string of injuries (2 horrendous ankle sprains) and then a fluke bout with sciatica (I was 26 at the time). It took nearly 2 months of 3x a week physical therapy to get back the point where I could stand for long enough to take a shower. My legs never came back after that. (to this day, I get these insane cramps/spasms in my left leg. It looks like an alien is going to pop out of my calf)
Now I'm 31 and can barely touch the rim. Pretty sad actually. I could probably do much better if I actually got in the gym and worked at it. But at this point, I'm in good enough shape to play in 2 leagues (where we usually only have 5 or 6 guys per team) which is good enough for me. I'd honestly worry about landing on someone if I actually got back the point where I could get up a little bit. Being able to grab the rim again would be nice, but any sort of serious fall would really screw me up at work. Not really worth it.
MC Gas Money
Footballguy
Im amazed we have so many wealthy FBGs who are also ageless superhuman athletes.
You guys should startnyour own Janus program.
You guys should startnyour own Janus program.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
otis can dunk 2 basketballs at the same time with one hand.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
I'm 5'9" and played basketball through HS. You could have trained me for a year and put ####in' flubber in my Chuck Taylors and I would still barely be able to touch the net.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Agreed, I teach high school and will shoot around at the open gym sometimes. Over the last 7 years, there's been only a few kids that ever really could consistently dunk. 75% of the kids that play are black and most over 6 feet tall.
Fullback Fro
yesno
Lost the ability at about 35. 6 ft white guy. I could do one handers, two handers, reverses, off the backboards, and put backs pretty easily in my 28-25 ages. Beer and exercise are the main culprits. But the long distance shooting has improved in the twilight years.
ILUVBEER99
Footballguy
i'm not buying all these guys who are 5'7" - 5'9" saying they were dunking even volleyballs/womens b-balls. Maybe a tennis ball but very few guys that height can grab a rim much less dunk anything.
Short Corner
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
work just fine for me
Short Corner
Footballguy
If you want to increase resistance a weighted vest or even throwing some bricks in a back pack is a better idea. Strapping weight to your ankles doesn't focus on the muscles needed to jump and can increase stress on the ligaments in your knees and hips.
the moops
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
i played basketball 4 summers in a row wearing ankle weights 30 minutes
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Buttonhook
Footballguy
That was me. White guy - 6'0", could dunk until I was 35. I'm now 43 and figure I've lost at least 12" off my vertical - keep in good shape so it's purely just age.
What? Are you Spud Webb? Did you have a 48" vertical?
Buttonhook
Footballguy
Work on your core - lots of abs. There are plenty of guys who walk around with ankle weights, have huge calves, and can't touch the net.
matuski
Footballguy
I don't think it would be a revelation to find most people peak physically after high school.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Sure, if they continue to train and stay in shape. I don't know which group constitutes "most". I'm sure we all know a large % of guys that were good high school athletes, then stopped playing, started partying in college and quickly fell out of shape. I don't discount the dunking. Like I said, my dad wasn't that tall and didn't do any serious working out and could dunk into his 40s. It just seems like I never saw many people dunking in my years of playing in HS, college, rec, etc.
G
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Dunking in a game situation is a lot different than messing around with your friends at the gym or playground. Never had the guts to attempt it in a game because I knew if I clanked one I would be riding the pine and running a lot of lines at practice.
My HS team had 6'6" and 6'4" big bodied guys that couldn't come close to dunking, and a 6'2" lanky kid that could do about any kind of dunk.
My HS team had 6'6" and 6'4" big bodied guys that couldn't come close to dunking, and a 6'2" lanky kid that could do about any kind of dunk.
matuski
Footballguy
I'm actually not sure if I could dunk in high school or not, didn't play.
My intramural team had 6 guys we could lob to. Different circles I guess.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Never with a regulation ball, though close. I once found a college women's ball in the gym. Back in the day those were a hair smaller, I don't know if they still are. I could dunk that. I took that ball with me when I left the gym that day. It was fun to fart around with. My brother called it the "Sweet Pea". I eventually tired of it and left the ball in the same gym in which I found it.
Today I'd be lucky to touch the net and all I have to do to accomplish that is draw myself up to my full height and raise my arm over my head.
Today I'd be lucky to touch the net and all I have to do to accomplish that is draw myself up to my full height and raise my arm over my head.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
This.
Stand next to a picnic table. Jump flat footed from the ground onto the picnic table. Rinse and repeat a million times.
Stand under the backboard, jump up and touch it. Rinse and repeat a billion times.
Find ways to do these two things over and over and most people will see gains.
James Daulton
Footballguy
I'm 6'1 and can palm a basketball easily. The best I could ever do was rim dunk in high school from a dead run. I could jump off two feet and grab the rim up until my early 30's.
Now at 47 I can't even touch the rim anymore.
Now at 47 I can't even touch the rim anymore.
Righetti
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
No, but he was then. It went a few years after his hearing.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
Worse than "try going Misery-Sledgehammer to your ankles -- really helps your ups" ?
