 Done Tip Tuesday Yep All we do is dunk Done Tip Tuesday Boy you don't wanna chump Done Tip Tuesday Yo Today, 3 Jedi Mind Tricks to become the best dunker in the world Done Tip Tuesday Yep All we do is dunk Done Tip Tuesday Boy you don't wanna chump Done Tip Tuesday Know my vert is going up Done Tip Tuesday And I do it for the love Done Tip Tuesday Up Done Tip Tuesday And I can never get enough Done Tip Tuesday And I ain't never giving up Done Tip Tuesday Done Tip Tuesday We do this every day of the week that's named Tuesday What's popping? We've been doing it for 30 weeks now And I think that's exactly accurate If not more But let's have some fun What are we doing? What are you doing? Are you trying to dunk? Are you using the Jedi Mind Tricks that I'm about to tell you? No, because I haven't told them to you yet So let's go Look On my own dunk journey Feeling amazing Let's get into it real quick into my own journey But real quick also real quick Everything's the best So if you're gonna watch this whole video You're gonna be a Jedi Sensei student Cause I'm the Sensei But I'm still on the journey I just may be a little bit ahead of you But I have people ahead of me But I've 10 years closing in on 10 years If you watched the last vlog Watch the last vlog I wanna make more of those You guys give me a little smack on the thumb thing You freaking thumb me You do all that You hit the subscribe You do those buttons Smash them all Losing my mind This is a little later in the day for me This is when I usually unwind And I hit the bed, okay? So you get a little delirium But you also get the creativity You also get the special energy That you don't get always So the point is Hit those buttons Help me out I make better videos Win-win And also in my journey Just hit a PR today 335 on the deadlift Yanking it bro I can yank more than that I just don't wanna snap my spinal cord Because I don't know the correct form I mean I know it But I'm just my mobility's in the works So that's where we're at But I'm feeling so strong I'm dunking at the heaviest I've ever been If you watch my latest vlog Feeling so amazing Lifting, feeling so strong Strongest I've ever been Heaviest I've ever been And I'm not trying to get heavy But I'm understanding my body And let's just jump into it Jedi Mind Trick number one Body awareness I say this so much I've said it so much I'm gonna make it I'm gonna get it tattooed On my freaking basketball Not me Cause I wanna keep my skin pure That's another story I'm not gonna I'm gonna get it tattooed What? What are we talking about? Look One of the biggest take-aways So like I said I'm not exaggerating I've been doing this since 2011 And this is the biggest take-away Something I really wish I would have known beforehand And would have helped me Avoid so many plateaus Avoid so many injuries And different things like that And body awareness So what I mean by that is And I'm sorry if you already heard this But I wanna dive into it a little bit more Body awareness is the ability To understand what you're causing Your body to respond to What stimulus you're giving Your body understanding What your body needs That's all I mean by it But simply put is Are you using the right muscles For example, when you deadlift If you're like me You're a maniac You have a lot of energy You wanna rip weight off the floor You wanna just lift more weight Than you could possibly lift That doesn't make sense But you wanna lift more weight So your form starts to break down You're like, I don't give Throw more, throw 20 pounds on I don't give a f- I don't give a f- Right? But you don't wanna just Cheat that You wanna do it the correct way You wanna engage your core You wanna have that connection To engage your hamstrings And your glutes So you're pulling with the right muscles So you're doing it safely Cause if you're doing it safely You can continuously make progress And jump to eternity And so having that body awareness Is one, gonna help you lift correctly And two, it's gonna help you Understand what you need Cause as a coach myself But as coaches that I work with Is they can only tell you What to do But you have to have the intensity You have to push your body In the ways it needs to be pushed So you have to find that And yes, this may be weighed down the line For 90% of you But I want you guys to have all the keys And then use them when you need them And what I mean by that is Later than the line When you get to a certain level of Athleticism, your certain level of Vertical jumping You're gonna have to get stronger Or maybe you're at the beginning Even at the beginning phases Where you're at Some people are super strong But slow Some people are super fast But weak But you have to understand Are you pushing yourself to the max? When you do these plyometric movements When you do these explosive movements Are you pushing yourself to the max? When you're doing strength Are you doing it with the right intention? Are you moving the weight fast? Is that even your goal right now? Or are you trying to build some strength So it's okay to move it slow? These are all things that If you understand your body And what you're using it And how you're using it During these lifts And during these exercises You're going to develop Such a better awareness For what you're creating your body to be Because for me I didn't know that So a simple example is I was always a dunker Meaning I was always sprinting I never did anything endurance So I was conditioning myself Unknowingly to be an explosive athlete Right? So now down the line I had a fear of like Doing some endurance things Or because I felt like It was gonna move my body to slow twitch But that's such a far away From where I am on the spectrum Of an athlete I would have to do ultra-marathons To really take away from my explosiveness And I learned that through books But also through body awareness Because if I can feel my body And understand what I'm feeling I can understand that running Or jogging is still an explosive movement And I'm not gonna be running hundreds of miles I'm just gonna be running some endurance Get blood flow Understand what that means So I know this is kind of vague But just understanding your body Understanding your muscles Feeling your muscles Getting to know them How they're feeling after lifts How they're feeling when you're jumping Do you feel speedy Do you feel sluggish Do you feel stiff Do you feel mobile Do you feel limber Do you feel loose Do you feel fluid All these different things Are things that you can get in tune with Alright, let's move on to number two So number two Definitely one of my favorite things About this journey And if you've followed me at all You probably heard me say it already But it's really powerful Visualization Quick story I couldn't two-hand dribble dunk Still barely can on ten feet Couldn't do it for three years Visualized it got in three months I'm gonna make a whole video on that But the point is I couldn't even see myself doing it In my mind's eye So there's two parts to this One, you have to be able to see yourself Doing it in your mind's eye Or be able to visualize yourself Achieving the dream Before you can do it in this physical reality I'm not gonna get too deep into why But if you can understand that And think about it I can't even see myself doing it in my mind's eye How am I ever gonna do it in this physical realm That is just something that Will teach you a lot about what you're thinking And how you believe in yourself Which is the back of the shirt Can you see it? There it is, live, okay Now the other side of that Besides what you may doubt in yourself Is what you can achieve through your visualization Because a lot of times You've heard the saying open the floodgates Where you land a dunk Or you land a new trick Or you land something Or you do something for the first time Now you can do it all the time Now your belief changed Now you've seen it go through the rim You felt it go through the rim, right? You can do that all in your mind A quick story is Anything you visualize Can change your current body If you think of a buzzer beater shot That you had When you think about winning a dunk competition Getting your first dunk You may get excited You may get your palm sweating Simple proof that a thought Can change your current body So use this to your advantage Quick tips on visualization is Take time, space, calm Breathe about six deep breaths Then just think about achieving that goal That dream that you wish you could do And visualize yourself achieving it And what you would actually think In that moment What it would feel like And use all five senses Use your sight, your sound, your smell All the other senses I don't even know them But you use those, right? And you feel like When you land that dunk What would you say What would you feel And do that over and over And over again Because then your body Starts to already act it out You're already building that muscle memory Within your mind Before you actually do it And now when you repeat a dunk When you're practicing technique When you're practicing lifting When you're carving New patterns in your brain You're doing things with your physical body But it's repeating a mental pattern So you can repeat that mental pattern Without even using your physical body And that is why it's a Jedi mind trick Because it's going to elevate you To the next level instantly Jedi mind trick number three Which is something I got reinforced From this book I just finished Which I'm a huge fan on the art Of resilience by Ross Edgeley Is positivity Now he has a chapter A whole chapter dedicated To how smiling makes you stronger Now he has all these studies I'm not going to go into them But basically when he smiles Or studies that have been done When people are smiling Their performance is enhanced Because their body is in a better state And their perception of their fatigue Is reduced So not only can they perform better But they can perform longer So simply put, smiling Can help your performance Think of all the positive actions You can do in your life And thoughts that you can have What though? Am I saying all the positive actions All the positive thoughts that you can do That can affect every single workout That you do every single moment Use that huge shift to your advantage And the reason I say that is because If you achieve that goal In Jedi mind trick number two You would feel freaking amazing You might feel confident You might feel ecstatic You might feel like the freaking man You might go talk to the freaking girl Right there You see that girl? You see that girl? Yeah, I mean something I do Something I do You know? And that's how you feel I mean I felt good right there I just got in the moment right there So the point is those feelings Are felt when you're achieving a great goal So if you can manufacture I don't want to use that word Because it feels like you're making them up But if you can try to act that way One, the spirituality side is You're going to draw that experience Into your realm of possibility But two, you're going to perform better Your physical body is going to be in a different state To do better and bigger things So the big thing about positivity is that If you're not positive What are you? Are you neutral? No, you're the other way So there is no neutrality There is no nothing If I say, hey, I'm not doing anything today Sitting, the earth is spinning It's going, Neil deGrasse Tyson Just taught me we're moving at 800 miles an hour If the earth stops for one second Everything's freaking moving, right? So we're always moving I was just thinking about this today I'm standing on, if I'm standing for a long time I get tired, I want to sit down Your body starts to hurt, right? That's gravity just yanking us down It's not just that we're just tired We're getting constantly pulled to the earth So point being is that we're never sitting still We're going one way or the other way So if you're not reinforcing positivity If you're not waking up and smiling at the sky Which is what I do Because it's like telling my body I'm having a great day right from the start And I look like a pretty happy guy, don't I? Your subconscious is going to go the other way Our subconscious is defaultly geared towards negative Not just negative, but doubts and fears Because it's just trying to protect us So reinforce positive movements Some quick tips, wake up, smile at nothing Listen to inspiration, listen to some good music Think about it, it's going to be a freaking perfect day If you follow my Instagram If you follow my stories If you follow my freaking content If you listen to anything I do If you listen to my raps If you listen to my podcast I do so many things If you listen to any of them I'm really big on saying that I'll post it so you guys have to read it If you watch my story It'll be like, today's a perfect day It's freaking seven in the morning We have no idea what's going to happen But we make it happen, okay? Favorite podcast of all time So, or whatever this is! Dunk Tip Tuesday Dunk Tip Tuesday Use that positivity to your advantage Not only to your advantage But to avoid the other way But positivity can help in so many big ways So that's freaking Dunk Tip Tuesday I'm Addy here And I'm going to play this out So roll this out Thank you for watching Thanks for smashing all the buttons I hope, please share this with somebody I had so much fun making this And I'm just yelling at the camera Let's go Dunk Tip Tuesday Yeah All we do is talk Dunk Tip Tuesday Boy, you don't want to jump Dunk Tip Tuesday Know my bird is going up Slowly, but it's going And I do it for the love Dunk Tip Tuesday You know I do it for myself That's you Dunk Tip Tuesday And I can never get enough Dunk Tip Tuesday Never satisfied, journey never ends Dunk Tip Tuesday And I ain't never given up Not ever Dunk Tip Tuesday Yo, free style on it Should I make a burst If you subscribe That's it