Do you get up high without having to strengthen your legs, in other words can you get up naturally? Are you really flexible when it comes to your body flexibility? Do weigh really lightweight,and if so does being very light in pounds help you get up higher? Have you ever met a real NBA basketball player and are they very slim and muscular or just slim? Basketball small forwards some of them are 6'6 and 190 pounds which I can imagine very skinny according to height and weight table. Reason for all the questions is bascally, most basketball players who get up high off the ground are they skinny and lightweight?
2007-04-04 16:55:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
im 6'0 and can dunk with one or both hands although nothing fancy... The key to dunking is lowering your body fat, get it to 10% and also strengthening your leg muscles( hamstring, quads ) by doing squats , pyrometric exercises also helps to improve your fast twitch muscle...good luck
2007-04-04 17:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could barely dunk in my playing days at 5' 10". I was very cut and lean though. I weighed around 170. The only thing I did other than keeping up with my sprints and running was to continually bounce alley-oop myself until I could dunk. The most important thing is sprint strength though. Most people get tired of trying after about 10-15 tries of dunking. 99% of the time, it's because your body is tired from the short sprint to get up that high (unless you're one of those gifted hop off two feet jumpers).
However, I played against many former college and NBA players and most of them never dunked in any games I played against them. I'm talking the shorter ones of course. Chauncey Billups of the Pistons is one. That guy tore me up in high school, but never had to dunk the ball once.
2007-04-04 19:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by jayevans2121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First time I could dunk, I was 20 years old 5"8 and 140lbs...And never worked out my legs with weights...Ive always been very atheletic..and If your wondering Im white..Im not that flexible, but I do have to arch my back, to get more leverage
2007-04-04 17:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by 229Time 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spud Webb, 5' 7" won the slam dunk contest in 1986.
2007-04-04 17:02:11 · answer #4 · answered by playmaker4747 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the USMC and we play ball every Sat. their 5'9 dude dunkin' but they can't play so dunk all you want but if you can ball come and play or stay your @ss home!!!
2007-04-04 18:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone is forgetting about NATE ROBINSON... i love that little guy. he won the dunk competition last year in '06 it was pretty awesome. he's like only 5'7
2007-04-05 05:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by apple 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋