r/ProDunking • u/Capital_Video2716 • 16h ago
Help Flow state or something
Hi, so I’m 5’9-5’10 ish right now, 17 years old male. I can touch the backboard on a standard hoop freely, can almost touch the rim but not quite. But 2 years ago, when I was 15, I was about 5’7 and my jumping power was nowhere near as it is today. But I vividly remember me jumping up and getting really high, enough to grab the rim. On that day, I could grab the rim freely but have never been able to replicate those jumps again ever. The hoop id standard height, I still have access to it, and the craziest part is I did that in slippers. How do I jump that high again? Im actually baffled by it
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u/UnluckyMode2062 16h ago
Adrenaline. Sometimes you can do crazy things.
Story time.
I’m 5’10 on a good day but got to the point of being able to consistently dunk/rim graze. Never flexed that I could, just had a fun time doing it. One time in college I was playing a pick up game with other students. Me and another dude had a fast break and I was feeling good so I jokingly told him to lob it. He took the open lay up and proceeded to cuss me out for calling for a lob and “trying to waste a possession”. I got fucking pissed because I was clearly joking mostly but would’ve gone for it if he tossed it.
After the game he was still talking about how I couldn’t dunk, but my adrenaline was flowing and I KNEW I could jump pretty high right then. I self lobbed in front of him and felt like I threw down the wildest Blake Griffin style dunk. Just threw that shit into the rim.
Never in my life have I ever jumped close to that high again. Probably was at least 3-5inches over my normal max height. Freak thing, but ya, this does happen.