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.