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  • Hi I'm Travis Corpening, and we're going to have a little fun here at Carolina Beach Recreation

  • Center. I'm going to try to teach you how to dunk like Michael Jordan. First of all

  • depending on whether you are a two footer jumper or a one footer jumper, Mike had the

  • option in the legacy he left he jumped off either one whenever he needed to. So let's

  • show the two handed the dunk off of two feet. One thing that Mike always use to do is if

  • you really want to ham it up and really be like Mike, you can stick that tongue out before

  • you take off, because that always showed that he was really concentrating. But as far as

  • actually making the dunk, what you want to do is when you're jumping off of two legs

  • what you want to do is you want to take off somewhere close to the basket. Because it's

  • a lot harder to actually take off from a distance jumping off of two feet, that's really hard.

  • So what you want to do is you want to take off really close to the basket, and you plant,

  • if you're right handed you plant with the left leg first, then come through follow through

  • with the right leg, and take off after you plant and once you rise, one thing Michael

  • Jordan use to do is a tomahawk dunk. He use to bring it back here and tap his numbers.

  • That's what the call it tapping his numbers, the numbers on the back of his jersey. And

  • then he would bring it down with authority once he got above the rim. Now something else

  • Mike use to do off the one handed dunk is Mike use to love to lean. If you watch some

  • of his old dunk contest, Michael Jordan would lean into the basket. And the way you do that

  • is that's got to be pretty much it got to be off of one leg, but if you got the talent

  • you can do it off of two. And you come in from the side, and once you take off you plant

  • and you turn your body at an angle to the basket. So your shoulder is actually pointing

  • to the basket, and you want to lean. You lean into the basket with your shoulder, and your

  • upper body, and once the ball, you've got the ball above the rim, then you can bring

  • it down with authority. There you have it dunking like Michael Jordan.

Hi I'm Travis Corpening, and we're going to have a little fun here at Carolina Beach Recreation

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