The first time you dunked

[trobinson97]

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Oh man, the first time I dunked...it was great. It was after the dunk contest when Cedric Ceballos went blindfolded. My 2 cousins and I went down to the local court and said we weren't going to leave until one of us dunked. I might have been 13-14.

We were there for about 2 hours playing 21 and trying to dunk and finally after a lot of tries I was the first to succeed. I couldn't do a running dunk off one leg, but I could do a standing dunk off of two legs. After a while I finally got it down being able to run and dunk and for a long time I was the only one of us who could.

The first time I dunked in a game was at the same court and we were playing under the streetlights. There was this tall dude we called Dike who was on the other team and because he was so tall, dunking wasn't a problem for him. He'd dunk and just talk **** about it.

I got a long rebound and started going the other way with it but he was right with me and had the angle. We both jumped and he actually got a lot higher than me. He should've blocked it but somehow he overshot me and I got it, it still counted as a "dunked on him" to me. I talked so much isht to Dike that night. I never dunked on him again but he wouldn't forget that time. To hear me tell it back then I straight yanked on that fool, but it was pretty much your standard plain one handed dunk, not even a lot of kock back.

[pfunk880]

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I'm 5'9" on a good day, I'm white, I'm slow and overweight, and I have no ups.

So, to answer your question... never.

[stewaat]

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Best. Thread. Ever.

I didn't dunk until college. Just in a pickup game I was thrown an alley.

I'm 6'3 & white but I can yam

My favorite is when messing around to throw the high bouncing pass to myself then throw it down with 2 hands

Dunking a basketball is one of the most masculine feelings.

[JerzeyReign]

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I'm only 5'7" (was 5'5" when I graduated high school) and not a very good jumper. I can't even reach the bottom of the net on a regulation hoop

People our height have to work at it. I used to wear some old beat up jump soles at first (if you ever looked at eastbay back in the day you know what I'm talking about). And I used to wear ankle weights EVERYWHERE. The only time I took them off was to ball, lol. I think that's why I have so many knee/ankle problems now

[MC Fatigue]

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I can't even get within 2-3 inches of the rim, never mind getting above it to dunk.

[OSUFan_88]

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I'm 5'9" on a good day, I'm white, I'm slow and overweight, and I have no ups.

So, to answer your question... never.

Join the club, although I am about 5'11"...but still, I am white, slow and slightly overweight. Not ever going to happen.

[VDusen04]

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The first time I dunked came at an open gym my freshman year of high school. I was 5'11'' at the time. As I arrived, a crew of varsity players were gathered around a hoop watching one of my freshman classmates trying to "dunk" by basically losing control of the ball and grabbing the rim, giving the impression he was close to dunking.

I got jealous of the attention this guy was getting from the upperclassman so I rushed to lace up my sneakers and hustled over to get in some attempts. I flushed my first try, one-hand off one foot. Everyone went nuts and one of the upperclassman grabbed me and yelled down to the varsity coach, "This kid just dunked!" to which the coach just nodded sarcastically, as if to say "Riiiiiight". I felt like a celebrity the next day in school with everyone coming up and asking me about my dunk from the night before and whatnot.

My first in-game dunk came my sophomore year, again one-hand off one foot. It was my only high school game dunk and I didn't REALLY begin flushing all over in games until I turned 20. Since then things have really stepped up a notch. Most of my in-game slams are pedestrian (no in-game 360's or reverses) but thankfully I have been able to dunk on a few people in my day. I am now 6'3''.

And I'm not sure who will believe me but I actually had one of the best dunks of my life three days ago, so the timing of this thread is appropriate. I had a one-handed, authoritative tip-dunk off of a missed three pointer. . .and it was fun. I've had tip-slams before, but never one this vicious. It was also my first "showstopper", where the game stopped for a minute simply so people could revel in what just occurred. I'm honestly not sure anything can top the feeling I get when I put a dunk like that down.

[trobinson97]

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Dunking a basketball is one of the most masculine feelings.

Tell me about it. Dunking is like the football equivalent of trucking somebody in football and I imagine hitting a home run would be that for baseball.

I'm only in the 5'10" range and when I was younger the best thing would be the first time people saw me dunk. Seeing the surprise on faces, hearing the "ooooh!", man it was great.

I wonder if I got back in shape could I still manage it.

[Maxattax3]

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I wish I was a little bit taller... haha. Im 6'0 and can get all my fingers and about half my palm above the rim... It just hasnt happened yet. Maybe Ill head down to the park with my flip camera this weekend. If it happens Ill put it on youtube for y'all lol.

[Bellsprout]

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I'm 5'5". That's your answer.

(20 years old. For those that are curious. And yes, i'm a dude. Lol.)

Though I have the between the legs dunk pretty wired on the Nerf thing hanging from my closet door. (It's been hanging there since I was like 8. It's still sort of fun to shoot around on once every blue moon or so. And yes, I do still live with my parents. Lol. I commute to college.)

[jnofx]

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I will never dunk on a regulation hoop. Pretty sad day when I realized that. I can't even touch rim. This thread just ruined my night...

Oh well, I still got a gorgeous J and can drop some nasty dimes

Put me on a team with someone that can dunk and I'll make him look real good

[Scottdau]

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Volleyball on a 10 foot rim. I am only 5'11'', but I had major hops. Just couldn't palm a basketball. I was in Highschool.

[bkrich83]

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10th grade after practice. Tough for me, can't palm the basketball.

Only had a couple of in game dunks all on breakaways and one of them was just in intramurals in college.

My sr. year in HS tried going baseline on a guy and dunking only to get rimchecked and fall and land directly on my back. First and last time I tried to dunk in a non-breakaway type situation.

[Mo]

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at these white comments, cause I just finished watching White Men Can't Jump.


To answer OP questions, on regulation size goal, never, now while I got ups, am also closer to 5' than 6'.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Closest I can get is bottom of the net, but I'm 5'7" so I guess it's not too bad.