 What is up guys? So I had this great idea of being able to use my clips to do a little bit of a tutorial for the backboard dunk because what was holding me back from making a tutorial was because I was thinking I have to go out and actually be in the field on the court, do the dunks and as I'm doing it explaining because I figured that would be the best way but I'm like why can't I just take some clips and kind of analyze them so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to have a screen recording going so I'll do that now. I'm not good at this. Okay so this is my first screen recording slash vlogging thing so I'm going to bear with me but I think it's going to be really helpful. So it's weird because I'm talking here but it's right here and you're seeing the same thing so you're seeing what I'm seeing. So basically what I have here is just a few different clips I took of myself and just to start off with the backboard dunk I really think it is all about placement and timing. Timing is probably number one. I probably could have gotten a backboard dunk before I've gotten other dunks specifically the windmill and I really think if you can do a basic dunk at all you can probably get a backboard dunk as your next dunk or even as if you can do any dunk meaning if you can do a lob dunk where you just catch and put it in or if someone throws it up or even a dribble dunk. I think you can get a backboard dunk simply for the fact that if you throw it right and the right timing it's basically putting it in the same spot as if you were doing a dribble dunk or a lob dunk. So if this is the rim you can throw it off the backboard lightly and it's all about timing. So the timing is the hardest part it's hard to throw the ball at the right speed and right things I'm going to get into that a little bit but if you throw it with the right amount of power comes off the backboard at the right angle and you time it right it'll come like right here and all you do is catch it and put it in just like a lob when it bounces it'll put it right there. So that's kind of what I want to explain and for me I went straight to a windmill just because that was my goal I never really thought of backboard dunks and just was more amped to get a windmill and that's why my backboard dunks I don't even have too many examples of me doing basic ones but I do have some examples of me doing some light backboard dunks during my warm ups just because they keep me jumping correctly but yeah so a lot of mine came after I had enough height to do a windmill so that's why I'm able to throw it off the backboard and kind of have some extension but I'll try to get into all that and just try to get you your first backboard dunk so hopefully that's helpful. So if we come look at the very first clip this is your boy throwing a light one so let's just play the clip really quick this is like warming up for a dunk of course my computer is lagging when I'm trying to do screen capture so let's see if I can help that out at all so if you take a look at this I'm throwing it I'm very close to the rim but I'm just warming up and I'm just taking a few steps and I throw it kind of in a higher angle which you'll see later I throw more of a line drive so the higher angle it's not going to come off the backboard as fast which is going to keep it closer to the rim which is easier just to catch and dunk so for this warm up as you see it's just off the backboard I catch it and I don't have that much extension it's pretty straight and I miss but you get the point I think this is 10-2 by the way just to make my make me look better maybe it's not actually I don't remember but anyway the point is it's a very basic one it comes off the backboard almost if it's a lob like if I showed you this pat right here you can't tell if I went off the dribble off the lob you can't really tell that's the point if you catch it right there I didn't even do the easiest backboard you can do I threw it and it's it was coming down it's like almost under the rim and I have to bring it up a little bit so if I were to time it a little bit better jump a little sooner I would have been able to catch it above the rim and then probably dunk this one but I had to bring it up and that took a little bit of my vertical away so that's why I missed this dunk if that makes sense now just to look at the timing which will go through as a progression through the rest of the clips I'm throwing it and right as it's touching glass like almost before I'm already gathering if you see my gather my foot's already coming onto the ground that penultimate step right there should be a lot a little longer let me show you so this step right here is the penultimate step and when I get full speed when it's not warm up that step is huge and that's kind of I'm already in that gather before it even hits the glass most of the time so I'm jumping as it's coming off so when it's coming off the glass I'm already going up and it's coming off this way as I'm already in the air so that way I'm catching and we'll see that later in clips but basically as you see I'm already I'm not on my way up yet but that's what kind of threw this one off a little bit see if I would have jumped a little sooner I might have been able to but my timing's not as good with the low tosses I got really used to throwing it hard and having it come off fast so I have to jump like super fast okay so let's go the next one I think it's another light one same thing a little low a little more extension a little bit but same type of deal if I would it's hard with the slow toss in the slow approach but if I would have jumped a little sooner I could have caught it right there and just put it right in so that's the tricky part is when you throw a light toss you want you can't throw it from far because it's hard to throw a light toss from far because it's going to come off with a lot more force but if I were to able to jump or throw it a little softer you can throw it really close to the rim and just put it in and I think I have another light one here okay so now another light one just try to play it see if it lags super light but I was also warming up and it was a little slippery this day this video is one of my latest ones I posted I think two videos ago maybe three I forget but as you see I'm kind of I kind of have a little rhythm too I kind of always pick it up around the elbow left hand I don't really focus on left hand but I kind of get a good toss and I always throw it with my right so kind of throw it across my body and then gather right as it comes off the glass and I'm jumping as it and just like the last one if I jumped a little sooner or I threw it a little higher it I could have caught it earlier and then just put it right in but this one I'm kind of having to bring it back a little bit bring it up and in and I was jumping a little better this day so it was a little easier but the timing is not optimal but my point of this one is when I'm doing it light and I'm not throwing crazy extension you could see there's a little more of an arc on the toss that's so it's not coming off so far from the rim so I don't have any good examples of me throwing a really light toss just because I think my tosses are crazy and my light ones are still like not the most optimal for a backward dunk but you can make it optimal if you trust trying to get a backward dunk dunk off the glass to get started you could throw it a little lighter a little higher and it'll just come right off by the rim all right so now I think this is one more light one this might be the best one that's a little light I'll play that one more time it's I know it's lagging so again same kind of form same timing of my jump but this I think I jumped a little sooner so I have an almost no extension almost perfect timing pretty good it's might I say pretty good it's a good for me but like I'm saying if you can't if you don't have that much room to be able to catch it and cock it back I'll even a little bit because that's how I started I'm already jumping a little higher than I need to be to do a backward dunk but if you're just at the point where you could just barely backward dunk you could jump a little just throw it off a little lighter like I try to throw it light but it still comes off but you could try to throw it a little bit of an upward thing so it kind of barely goes jump a little sooner but this one's almost perfect so you just need a little room to spare that's why I think it's a great dunk to do after you get your first dunk just because you stay upright it forces you to jump up you don't have time to really gather you have to jump quick because it's coming off backwards and then it puts it right up there for you and then that's about it so I think that's pretty much it about the the basic backboards the light backboards and that one is like very little extension and pretty close to the rim just put it down I hope that's pretty good for the basics it's hard because I don't have a good example of me doing a very very basic one but here's one more basic one this one was tend to but I'm jumping hard on this one so as you see I'm jumping right as it comes off the glass my timing is really good but it's coming off us a little bit of force so it makes me come reach back forward a little bit and then just that's pretty much it so there's not much extension on these yet the timing is the most important you could even throw it like really soft so it just comes right off the rim and if you come for more of an angle then when you throw it it won't come off this way far from the rim it'll it'll go more to the side but then that way it won't be so far from the rim and you don't have to extend you could just catch and put it in so these are my light ones it's hard to it's hard to find a light one like I said okay I like my my reaction at the end like whatever and this is another light one okay so this is kind of like in the middle this is where I throw it a little harder I'm trying to get myself going still same timing I'm always about jumping right here so that way when I'm at my peak it's right above me and this one has a little more extension so you see the force of it coming off the backboard is causing me to extend a little bit and it's like it's hard to just catch and push it forward that's why the light tosses are less extension same timing about but you don't have as much crazy extension so the backboard almost forces me to extend that's why I really like them because I just have to throw that thing and go get it and it almost like forces me to extend if that makes any sense I don't know if I'm doing a good job explaining how to do this dunk yet but we'll see so comes off I catch it right at its peak at my peak I'm still going up a little bit but a little bit of extension and then I finish so again you want to throw it when you're so you throw it take a step and then it's my plant I'm already going into my plant so I take like I'm throwing it on my right foot always take one step and then I'm into my gather that makes sense and then I'm jumping as it's coming off the glass already and now we get to the good stuff my some of my better ones and right from this little screenshot already you already see I'm like getting into my gather and it hasn't even come towards the glass yet so same thing throw it take one big left step then I'm ready into my gather as it's coming off glass I'm jumping and I'm catching it and it's coming off fast like I threw this one fast if you watch I know it's laggy but son of a gun I got it I guess my computer can't really handle the screen recording but it's coming off just watch the ball it's coming off the glass at a line drive so it's coming off a lot more force than the other ones now if I was jumping the same speed with a lighter toss it would have just been a less extended backboard dunk but the timing is the most important and that's the hardest thing as you're jumping higher you're throwing it you have to jump faster so I'm running faster and throwing the ball faster so just try to I think most of the time when if you're able to win mull dunk or you're if you're like at the level where you want like a big backboard dunk like you're trying to do like next level you're gonna want to try to throw it a little harder off the glass because when it comes when you throw it slow and you're trying to run towards the backboard it's going to come off slow and it's going to throw everything off a little bit there's a video where me and is there at UCF and he's doing right left and I'm kind of helping him with right left and you can kind of see his progression that session where he throws it harder and harder off the glass the point is also is when you throw it off the glass and it's coming off harder you have to jump to react to the ball you don't really have time you don't really have time to even like get down low and try to go for it you just have to like react that's why I really like them and that's like why the faster tosses help me jump better also like I got better at the harder backboard tosses than the basic ones and even like right now when I jump higher when I throw a bad backboard toss I jump worse just because the fast backboard tosses come off quick I have to jump quick I'm looking up I'm staying upright and it helps me jump better bang bang a ring yeah so basically jump same timing catch it and then just I just focus on I just focus I literally just focus on throwing the the ball in the right placement I didn't really talk about that yet but I come from this angle I'm right left so I throw it like just to the right of the square and it comes off basically right down the middle and so I'm jumping if this is I don't know if this is helpful let's see so when I'm looking at it I'm coming from a little bit of an angle and I throw it and then by the time I jump it's it's a little bit to my right but then it's coming like right at me and I just just catch it so I just go right up for it and it's right here I don't feel like I'm doing a great job but if you look at it here it's a little bit to the right of the square and it's off an angle you could see it kind of angled and then I'm jumping straight in the front of the rim and it's right at the front of the rim but then the force brings it back and all I think about is throwing it in the right place with the right amount of speed usually pretty hard just because I wanted to come off and I want extension and then I just focus on catching it and finishing I'm not even worried about the extension the extension just happens so there are times where if you throw a light toss and you have a good amount of hops and you want to do extension you can if it's a light toss this forces me to do the extension but if you do a light toss you can catch it have time to bring it back and then do it but that's not what I'm doing I'm not really catching it and bringing it back I'm just trying to catch it and the force of the ball is making me do the extension if that helps I hope this is insightful for the backboard master okay so now we're on to the latest and greatest of my backboard attempts I was feeling it this day this was my first backboard attempt same timing ball came off good oh this is a light one this is like a warm-up one so back to the warm ups so as you can see I'm kind of like throwing a little bit more of an arc it's not coming off the backboard as speedy as the last one and I'm catching it and I had to bring it up that's kind of why I miss I'm still warming up in this clip but if I would have jumped a little better or thrown a little bit higher I might have been not have to bring it up over the rim but this is kind of what you want to do anyway just when you're trying to do a basic backboard dunk but as you can see there is some room to improve to make an optimal backboard dunk and that's that so I missed but you can see the timing is there just the placement of the ball might be a little bit too low I could have thrown a little bit higher just so you maybe on an upward angle a little bit more so it doesn't come down it's under the rim when I catch it and then there's this baby right here I don't even think I timed it that great but the look how low the ball is the ball is not that high but since I'm throwing it in on it so hard towards the backboard it's coming directly off like a line drive and then I'm catching it not even that far from the rim but the extent I almost lost it here my fingertips grabbed it but the the velocity of the ball coming at me caused all the extension and I was able to hold on to it and I had enough height while I was still going up to backboard it I mean to back rim it so that was a good one but at the same time I still didn't really time it that great a lot of these are I'm jumping a tad late just because well maybe not it's just that I'm not jumping that high like if you want you could jump a little bit even sooner not even sooner I think it's okay but if this was like a lower rim I would have destroyed it but let's see the next one same rim same thing just trying to crush it again I think this one would see this toss was a little low even though it came a line drive it's not even above the rim right here it's like rim level so it's coming down already so I think if I were to throw in a little higher and jump I'm jumping pretty close too I think that was also my problem but I still jumped pretty well so I was able to get the ball up but look how low I'm catching the ball I'm learning too from doing this and I back and I miss it but I had a lot of room to spare and the point of this one is that I'm throwing it really hard off the glass to be able to get this like extension let's go to the next one so this one you can see is a little bit higher already just on that little clip probably my best one and I did this was my best one and you might think I made that dunk based on that clip but it popped out so that could happen too everything could go right and you miss seemed to happen a lot this session so this one was pretty perfect as you can see I kind of placed it even more right like that was almost like directly in the center of the square on the side of the backboard but that's not really intentional it's just kind of anywhere to the right of the square it comes off at an angle but I think with this one I jumped better and the ball was like the perfect height it's above the rim and I timed it really well and it came off and it looks pretty good there and then I should have banged it I even had my whole freaking wrist in there I wish you would play without lag so yeah it's it was pretty good and I should have banged it but I think that was probably the most perfect one of this video so far um yeah so a lot of these I look like I'm taking off too close a little bit which could be uh that also makes me extend because I'm like too close I'm like reaching but um that's another thing too is a lot of times before I was taking off too close now I think this is kind of the sweet spot because I know how to like jump with it but um kind of trying to uh try out what you feel is best and I think this is a little too close but it's also at the same time pretty good like if I were to jump I'm trying to get extension so I'm jumping like pretty close so it comes off I'm not really trying to get extension but like it's just where I'm jumping to because it was the 10 foot rim and I'm used to banging them on like lower ones because I suck but yeah so just mainly the timing of the backboard and when it comes off is the main thing you want to look at so try to record yourself throw it off the backboard see when you jump and when you catch it because if I would have thrown it softer and caught it right here on my way up there would have been no extension it would have been just like a like a lob dunk or a dribble dunk so if you can mimic the timing of when your ball your hand is on the ball by the rim to from a backboard dunk to a lob dunk or dribble dunk that's your optimal backboard dunk and the point is it's achievable if you throw the right ball like with the right amount of speed the right angle and you jump at the right time timing the jump with the when it comes off the glass is probably the hardest part and you can really get a good backboard dunk I missed all of them okay so yeah let's see what's wrong with this one so again this one's coming off pretty low but and it has velocity so it's like making me extend so these are not the best examples but the point is I'm going a little extra on these ones I'm trying to get the extension I'm just throwing it hard and like letting it pull me back but that's what you need to think about when you're progressing so at first throw it a little lighter but when you throw it lighter still try to jump hard so you might want to throw it up from further so you kind of have to catch up and go get it and I hope this is helpful I don't know if it was do I need to go back to the other ones so if we want to just come full circle and look back at the warm-up ones that I had these might be better for you if you're just learning how to do them but like this one was a little low but if I were to throw it a little bit more of an angle so it came off a little bit less of a far from the rim the timing is there just a little bit too low I could have jumped a little bit sooner as you see I'm jumping as it's kind of coming down so if I want to throw it a little bit lighter so it barely kisses the glass but I can jump as it's touching the glass I can jump and I could have jumped like right now instead of like I could have been at this point of my jump back here so that way when I jump and the ball is right there I could catch it and just put it in but instead it's coming coming coming and then I'm catching it then I'm trying to bring it up and doing that so if you're just starting out try throwing a light toss see I kind of threw an underhand like really lobby toss like very archy but it took me too long to jump so I think this is probably the best example of what you want to do but even this I threw a little bit too hard so it came off far from the rim and I'm still a little bit back so throw it even a little bit higher so it just kisses the glass and kind of just like comes off almost like a layup but just in front of the rim so you would throw it but then my timing is good on this one but I would just normally just jump up and it's if the ball the timing is really good but the ball should be up here like right here so I'm just jumping and I would reach reach reach instead of reaching back like I'm doing letting it catch catching it there I could reach up and the ball would be like right here and then I put it in I could do a part two of this if this was not helpful but I hope it was helpful I can do a windmill next and between the legs I hope this screen sharing vlog sharing space sharing type thing is helpful I really think it's a great way to for me to kind of go through some clips show you the technique I'm thinking about right now I'm thinking about if there's anything I'm thinking about that I need to explain about this dunk um I think I covered it but let me know what you think I'm really curious I really hope this is helpful uh I'll also and well I'll also answer any questions you have in the comments as you but yeah uh so to summarize um if you're just beginning out throw it light but focus on the timing try to record yourself try to catch it right when it comes off the glass because you may think it has to come off the cloud come off the glass and then you jump but it comes off quick it's a it bounces quick even if you throw a light toss it still comes off quick and it falls quick as you see so throw it light but jump as it's bouncing off the glass or even a little sooner I think the sooner the better because you're up there and you get it um and then when you're starting to throw harder tosses definitely jump sooner than you think a lot of times I see people and they're throwing it and they're waiting for it to come off to go jump but then by the time they go jump it's it's past them so I think that kind of sums up my point to make it a more visual or at least make sense in your head so when you're throwing it harder you're gonna I'm already thinking about jumping it's a little bit more mentally challenging than when you visually see it because it looks like it's easy to time but when you're throwing it you're you're thinking you need to jump after it comes off the glass but the truth is you got to think about jumping the plant before you even see it come off the glass and that's what you don't see here it looks like I'm jumping when it comes off the glass but I'm really like already planting to jump before it even gets off the glass so I'm jumping like before it gets off the glass and taking off as it's coming off so it's definitely earlier than you think I hope that makes sense but I think that's it let's friggin yam right throw that thing off hard go get it practice on a low rim and bang them out