 another dunk tutorial. This time we're going with the windmill. Alright, let's get it started, jump right into it. I just have some pointers, some tips, some advice, and some things to look out for and what you should focus on. And it's pretty simple, but let's just jump into it. No pun intended with the jump. Screen recorder, let's go. Okay, start now. Alright, so let's make this full screen. Alright, so you saw the little clips right before this, and so I had a little set of clips that I wanted to show you because that is the progression from like my very first windmill and just I'm going to go through it and I'll show you instead of explaining it. This is my very first windmill on a 10-foot hoop and I snuck it in there. Can I make this better quality? I think so. So as you see here, sorry for the volume, is here's a few things I want to point out. So first thing is it's good timing. So the timing you want is when it bounces you're about to go take off and you're jumping as the ball is above you, like you want to be behind the ball and things like that, but the main thing to look at is the height of the ball. So we're going to be going through that a lot in this video, but mainly for this one is the height of the ball is not moving up and it's not coming down. It's better if it's coming down too, but the point is it's not going up because that way when you jump you're not going for it. You're kind of catching it and having the most efficient movement possible. So as you see here the ball is almost stopping its upward momentum so that way when I jump I go to grab it and I can bring it right back down. If it's going up I have to like go get it first or like pull it against its direction and that's a little bit harder and we're just trying to maximize the efficiency of the windmill motion. And the other thing, so for this one as you see I'm catching it almost like at my face level maybe even under it and that's pretty low. And as we see as I get better at the windmill I'll be catching it a little bit higher and it's more of a real windmill when you catch it above and bring it all the way around, but it's a good starting point. And the other thing I want to point out is that the location of the ball there's a sweet spot. If it's too high or too low it's really hard and to get more into that is that if it's too low you're not going to get that arm swing. You're going to be like reaching down like this and you're not going to be able to jump. You're going to like be focused on grabbing the ball without getting a full jump. So this one even though I'm kind of low it was still a little high enough where I was able to get some of my arm swing and be able to get like a 75% rotation and then dunk it. So you really want to try to get that sweet spot a little bit above where you think you may do it and that's something I learned when I was trying to get my first windmill dunk is that sometimes when I threw it higher than I thought I could get a full rotation on I would actually get a better jump and closer than the low the low tosses even though the low tosses I did less of a rotation so let's just keep that in mind and I snuck that baby in. All right now this was soon after that another 10 foot rim but um turn this off real quick sorry about that. And same thing not the prettiest form but the timing is really good I'm jumping and the ball is almost stopping right when I grab it I'm a little higher this time but again not the fullest rotation but good timing and good placement of the ball and as you see my form is a little strange I'm not like it's not perfect but it's pretty good and I'm able to get it there and you want to be a certain distance from the rim which is where we'll see on the next video now this one's a good video to see I think I have it in slow-mo back so okay so now here's the next one this one's a little bit too close to the rim but I'm able to get it just around but as you see it's not as fluid and it's not as pretty looking or it doesn't look as efficient as it could be so as you look the timing is there but I'm having to jump and kind of like reach back so I'm it's decent catch but I'm like already you already see me like leaning it's not really going forwards with it if you can go forwards with it it makes for a much more efficient movement and I'm able to reach up and just get it in but I'm also dunking on the side of the rim which is not the most optimal not because it's harder or anything like that but you're probably not maximizing your jump and your peak and hitting your jump at your peak when you're doing the motion so just keep that in mind as well try to get the placement right with the ball when you're doing windmill now moving on to this one I wanted to throw this in here just to try to show you different styles this is a left-right approach when I used to have some versatility and same thing is the timing is there it's always about the same timing the ball bounces and then I'm getting into my gather my big penultimate and I'm jumping and it's a little bit above my head which is perfect for what I'm at the level I'm at where I can't get a full rotation where I catch it up here but it's it's up enough where I can get some of my arms right now I want to get into the reason how this left right is I want to get into left right versus right left right left might be a little easier only because it's a little more natural to bring the motion around like if you jump right left you're going like this so this is like let's see what's the best way I can do this if I'm looking at you I plant plant my left foot and then I catch it and bring it to the side of my body but there are different variations when you do right left some people stay more straight and kind of bring it back like this some people turn more sideways and bring it like this but it's not as very it as very as it is left right a lot of people have different styles on left right where they catch it over here and bring it across their body or they catch it like right in the middle and bring it back left right this one's a little bit more a little bit in between both of those so it's hard to tell from this video but I think it's a little bit on my left in my head and then I bring it right here and just if you're trying to do it left right you can kill windmills kill Gannon's great at that left right windmill so you could take a look at his form it's really great but the same thing is that you want it high and you got to find the placement left and right which is another thing that I learned about my right left windmill is that after trying it over and over again I learned exactly where to throw it and for me it was a little bit to my right because when I would jump I wanted a little bit on my right so I could just bring it here because on my left I'm gonna I'm gonna plant and jump and have to reach here and it's just not as efficient so you have to find you feel if you wanted in the middle but for me it's a little bit to my right it might not even be to the right I just throw it thinking a little bit to the right and my plant might take me right to the middle of it I don't know but the point is try to find the placement so you want to so far we want the right height of the ball and you want the right timing where it's not going up and it's not coming down you kind of run it right in that sweet spot so it's still up but it's not really moving so you could grab it and then you also want the right positioning left and right and just it takes a lot of practice with the timing I practice a lot on 98 just getting that timing down and it takes a lot of speed with the rotation that I didn't know until I started practicing so once you try it you may not be coming close but you can don't really easily it's probably that rotation speed so just try it over and over again even to get rim stuff that's really good so let's move on to the next one so this one same rim but now I'm doing right left and it's pretty good but as you see it's a little awkward again and that's because the ball is kind of close to the rim and I'm jumping more straight up and down and for my style I jump a little bit better not jumping forwards but it's hard to jump all straight up and down so this one was straight up and I go up and as you see I'm kind of reaching at the very end I'm not really going as fluid as a motion as I could be but it was pretty good the timing is really good the height was a little higher than I was this is when I was starting to get a little bit better at it so it's a little bit up there but as you see I'm still catching it like I just left the ground my arms aren't fully up next level is going to be like crazy up here then bring it all around but this is kind of next level compared to the last couple clips we've seen but again this is like a 9-10 rim and bring it around and then finish it pretty good now the next one is the same day and I really like this one because it was my best one for a long time and it goes to show you that there's a lot to do with the efficiency of the dunk and the timing and the positioning and there's a lot to that that you can practice to get really a lot a much better dunk out of the same vertical because I don't think I jumped any higher I just think I jumped a lot better with this dunk so if I run it real quick let me put the quality down a little bit because I don't know if you could play that full speed but okay so now if we break this down again it's it's good distance from the rim it's probably the perfect distance so I can take off and get my peak right as I finish I'm at my peak of my jump it's a perfect height it's a perfect timing the ball kind of stopped right there it's a perfect high where I get almost a full arms arm reach but also I get my full arm swing so my arms are above my head but I'm not reaching too high and then I'm catching it right as I leave the ground getting a perfect rotation perfect timing as you see it looks like Dwayne Wade off maybe I'll put that little picture of him that it looks just like him on this anyway the point is it looks like a real windmill get the full rotation and then I flush it perfectly hits the back of the room and shoots down and even though I didn't hit maybe like my forearm I hit maybe even just the middle of my palm the timing and the cleanliness of the dunk makes for a really good impactful dunk and so all those things add up to make a much better looking dunk than the one before it and all those factors come into play that you could practice and learn about what you're doing differently to get your windmill on point so one more time just run this back this was nice bang that thing but anyway the point is also even though I pretty much crushed that one it could be my palm could be my wrist but the point is it's not like down here which is now or I didn't get like my whole hand in the rim so there's levels to it that you might not be able to notice unless someone breaks it down like this but you can get that efficient bang of a dunk if you have the timing right and you have the positioning right so look for that and also try to get your efficiency good with all these dunks by doing low rams and your speed good and just your timing and positioning are so important that you could get a lot of dunks down that's why I'm able to windmill so well compared to like dribble dunks or some dunks that I'm I stink at because I've practiced this the I practiced all the lobs and all these technique for so long it was the first trick I really wanted to get so I practiced it over and over and over again and I learned exactly where to throw the ball so now it's like second nature I just throw it and it's like the perfect timing I just got it down and I got that sweet spot so many times that I know I can go get it anyway that's pretty much it so now we're on to my best one yet that I like the most this is a 10 foot rim I hope that's playing pretty smoothly but watch it real quick and slow mo so what's great about this one 10 foot rim is that play it come on so this one good timing again I throw it it's really good positioning from the rim it's a good amount of distance where I can count I'm not reaching forwards either that's another thing I'm realizing you don't want to jump and reach forwards you want to reach up but not too far where you're like like you have to reach for the rim there's a whole spacing issue with the front how close you are to the rim so definitely try to get that down this is about the most perfect you can get perfect height where I'm pretty much reaching almost full arms and it's pretty close to the rim it's almost let's see it's like maybe a foot and a half under the rim but anyway I have to go get it a little bit still reaching for it's really high up there my arms are almost straight up I get a really good jump I bring it all the way around and then the finish even though it looks like it rattles in I think that's just because my hand hits the rim as the ball does so it brings the rim down a little bit so it kind of rattles in but I think if it was a stiffer rim and my hand didn't affect the rim it would have shot down like the last one because I could feel my whole hand in the rim and the ball went down and I felt like I got the ball in a downward motion as well that's why I was it stayed in there and that's pretty big on a dunk like that so I was able to on 10 feet get a full rotation high toss get a full rotation and dunk it with room to spare and that's kind of how you know you're getting to the next level of the windmill and that's kind of the progression of how you want your windmill to go just to run it back really quick you want to make sure your spacing is good make sure whatever plant you are you you get comfortable which what with the left and right aspect of where you want to place the ball if you're right left for me it's a little bit to the right of like the middle of the rim so I jump and I catch it and it's kind of on my right side I think that's why it is it's not really reaching to the right but when I mentally throw it a little bit to the right I jump and it's over here instead of like a little bit to my left so I don't know if it's actually to my right but I just I don't throw it right at the middle of the room as if I'm going for a one-hander and if you're left right you really have to play with it but I remember when I was doing left right a lot of it was making sure it was high enough because a lot of times it's too low and low tosses I might might be harder left right just because you have to kind of bring it across your body and you're jumping but like this but either way one thing I really noticed I think my biggest tip was the sweet spot which is I was trying to throw it low so I can get like a half a windmill just to get the motion faster but when I would throw a higher toss and have to go get it I would you can feel a difference in your jump because you have to go get it a little bit and you can get a better jump with a more full of a rotation than if you were to get a lower less rotation it seems like you might already notice that already but to me it would seem like you can get closer to a windmill if you do less of a rotation but the fact is if you hit that sweet spot with the ball you get a better jump and then everything's more efficient you might get a better chance of landing that windmill. Okay so I hope that really helps I could do this again if you missed some tips you have some questions ask all your questions in the comments in the feedback whatever you want to see next I have a lot of other dunks we can do I'll probably do maybe an East Bay next I was thinking just because I'm trying to analyze it myself I see a lot of flaws in my own technique that I can point out I'm a lot better at seeing what's wrong with my form than actually fixing it I'm trying to fix it but it's just hard that's what's great about this windmill is that it's not as difficult for me I was able to learn the technique pretty quick and just wrap it out with the East Bay it seems like my technique breaks down very easily and I think that's because of my inflexibility with my legs and my hips anyway that's not the point I hope you enjoyed this let me know what you think ask your questions if it was too fast let me know if I spoke 100 miles an hour let me know but placement timing of when you catch the ball timing of when you jump what else make sure it's the right height and just practice that motion over and over again and practice the placement I think I said that eight times but the motion is really important as well and that's your windmill tutorial I'll frickin see ya