 What what is good guys? That was a good clap. Happy dunk tip Tuesday today. Barth joins me He talks about how he turned dunking into a career He gives his best tips for that but also best tips in general when it comes to dunk training He also talks about the five dunks He's done that no one else has ever done in the world and the six that he's working on Hint hint we get to name it in this episode and also the best dunker That's out right now and we also discuss if that dunk is possible the self-bounce in the air with Dan Gross getting very close rhyme intended so special episode today. Hope you guys enjoy. Let's get into it Just sit back relax and freakin listen and by the way Barth's on a secret mission We can't disclose but if you stay to with his podcast in the future. We'll disclose that he's literally in a hotel room. Let's go Here's that and I could never get enough don't tip Tuesday and I never give it up don't tip Tuesday They can hear it. All right, so hit it like ready. I'm gonna do it right as you do it ready set go It went but you didn't hear it. Oh Where are you what is happening the universe continues the earth is still spinning I'm still alive and I've gotten a haircut since the last time I was That's how we started and I was doing a recording by myself trying to do a solo podcast and I was saying it's good to be alive We're back on another Tuesday, which means we didn't die this week So that's something that anybody in the world listening to this could say thank you And you are in a hotel room I'm in a hotel room and you have that's because you're hunting the best greatest dunk tip Tuesday Tips of all time, right? That's where they are. I'm actually out and about searching for the the lost hidden tips of Dunkers of old Let me tell you it's a and you found it lots of archaeology Archaeology lock of archaeology, but I haven't found it yet, but I feel like I'm getting really close It's kind of like that movie with What is it? The movie about like all Star Wars and like the United States and Star Wars No No, it's not like National treasure it's like national treasure by the way I'm gonna mention to the people watching that I can hear all these things that you guys can hear but Barth can't hear when I go What the fuck I? Just made an actual dunk sound actual fucking don't sound and I said it off the wrong fuck I'm supposed to cut cover my words, but I did it, but what the Tuesday right there, but nobody hears that except us Barth. You're the only you're the only one actually All right, so you're talking about Star Wars go on Nicholas Cage so I am like Nicholas Cage in National Treasure and I am out searching for the answers to the original foundation of dunk life You what if we made a whole documentary or we ended up making a movie searching for it in a very similar fashion? We should do that. We should do that one day Let me pitch it to some people. So what are you doing in Connecticut? Cool. I'm under NBA. Is it dunk related? Would you but not in the way that you might whoa, what the I've been a sound again. You can't hear it. So what's up man? Why are you doing that? Cuz man, it's cool thing for the dunk game It's cool thing for me. It'll be fun. I Get to stay in a hotel room for three months. Whoa Three months in Connecticut Yeah, oh my god. I honestly have no idea what's happening right now, but can I come visit? If you would never go there, we can have a dunk session. Never dude. I'd never go to Connecticut. How close is that to Boston? Not like like like nine hours not far or like one hour. Yeah, because I'm going to Boston next week We're living our dream lives out here From my exact location. It is a three-hour drive to Boston It's not too bad Just read up driving down to Boston to hang out if you want I might only be there for a day, but Well, I might only be there for an hour. All right, so we got any tips for the folks back home You know people are tuning in they're chilling out They're like, I need a good podcast on wine I need some dunk life tips in my life to friggin help me jump. I just want I just want to be like Steven Barth I just want to dunk like them My advice for the people which is always very relevant to what's going on in my life is Sometimes in life you have to expand you have to do more you have to think more broadly things like that This is what we talked about the last time, right? Sometimes in life you have to do the opposite you have to look at what worked you have to You know follow a process not move on to the next one So sometimes in life you're expanding sometimes in life you're Contracting but not to get smaller. You're contracting to get bigger because The truth is is you can't focus on everything at one time So sometimes you have to focus on one thing so that eventually you can focus on Never finish anything you never get to do anything. I like that. He brought it back folks I thought he was going nowhere with that, but he brought it back and that reminds me of this Don't do that I did a there was a book that talked about like Doing those things I forget the quote But it's like if you dial into all those little things and you focus on the little things you have to But I'm in the same energy You got it you got it just it brings us all the way back down to the moment You got to do what you can do right now And you can't tell us what you're contracting on Um, I mean I can tell you The general gist of what I'm contracting. Yeah, please So a lot of what I've been doing in the last like Six months nine months mostly has been like Kind of like I would say I would call it self-rediscovery. Wow You know lots of change in my life um I wouldn't say lots of negative things happening, but just you know Like lots of unexpected change the last year. I had a question that I was asking myself That sounds really good and it led me to this question. By the way, it was hard to do the podcast alone Um, because I was trying to answer this question I think jumping helps you eliminate your ego Have you experienced that? I think That's interesting. I think that It can I think that being passionate about anything right Can help you eliminate your ego Well, the reason I bring it up is because especially at our at our stage where it's at such a high level That at this point it's like Do something else already But because we love it so much there there's almost No ego. It's just for the pure joy So sometimes it starts like that and then it becomes ego but then if you if you're doing it for the mastery of it like you're doing it for just the The attempt just a pursuit of greatness for yourself Yourself is the key then I think it helps everything I definitely think I've gone through that like I think I got a way for dunking for the love of it It started like that obviously And then when I made like a little money on it, I was like, whoa, like now it's a serious thing and all that and then I realized it was never that serious to begin with and I don't know why I never became so serious And now I'm back to just having fun with it again And now that I'm having fun with it again, I'm doing more things than I've ever done. Whoa But I was talking about you kind of went you started off with just the love of it Then you expanded to like, whoa, I could do a lot with this and you're like, wait a second There's not that much. I only want to just dunk and you contracted back and now you're expanding because you contracted Correct. So like like I like expanded out because I was like like dunking could take me places I lost the purpose behind dunking that took me where I even was Then as I like Experience that for a while and I kind of like when I lost the purpose of why I was doing it I didn't get the goals then I like retracted regained the purpose because I realized that's what I lost And then all my goals started happening again because I I was it was easy to do it again Because I had the purpose back. Isn't that I never did it for the money. I never did it for the goals I did it because of the underlying purpose. Yeah, which is It's fun That's it to work so yeah, so um anywho I know You you work a lot to get better at coaching and that's what you're always like working on whether it's your Actual programming or studying, but are you reading anything outside of jump relating or something that's different than you? I promised someone yesterday that I'm gonna read the golden compass. Whoa, what's that one? Let's look it up for the folks It's it's some like It's like a fiction Book, okay. I'm gonna read the summary for our listeners real quick The golden compass opens as a lyra bella qua a young girl. Okay, wait, what the hell? Give me a summary the golden compass A similar Alternate world similar to earth a young girl who's been given shelter by the scholars Come on. Give me a summary over here Can you give me one? I don't know what it's about. Oh, okay. So this is good for you too Um Someone I know this is their favorite book and they they told me that like the the actual story is just amazing and the writing's amazing So, okay. Why can't I find a just normal summary? Here we go the golden compass summary This is a nine paragraph summary. Just give me like a Where's amazon start reading hold on I'm just gonna order it on amazon And we'll do this podcast until it arrives and then wait. Is it called northern lights? I keep coming keeps coming up with Oh, here it is. There's three books. I think Uh, modern fantasy classic. Oh my goodness gracious All right, so I'll just read this because this is what it says is two paragraphs Lyra is rushing to the cold far north where witch clans and armored bears rule, huh? North where the goblers take the children they steal They steal including her friend roger north where her foursome uncle asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world These names are way too difficult Can one small girl make a difference in such a great and terrible endeavors? This is lyra a savage a scheme or a liar and as a fierce and a true Champion as roger or asriel could want but what lyra doesn't know is what one help them to betray the other A master work of storytelling and suspense All right, there you go Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past 20 years as the washington post Juvenile fantasy That's what you're gonna get into baby. I like that. All right All right, so aside from juvenile fantasies anything else new in barth's world Anything else new in barth's world other than the things I can't speak of Um Yeah, it's a lot of news. Oh, where do you live now? So I still live in like clear water But I moved I have a roommate now, so that's cool. Um, should we start playing video games? Start playing video games. Yeah I think it depends like streaming. I think it'd be so fun. If you mean me and you Yes, I think maybe we should now and then you're saying like other people as long as we don't do it too much You know, I had my podcast yesterday was about distractions versus enjoyment. How do you distinguish the two? How do I distinguish the two? I think distractions are things that keep you from doing things you need to do And enjoyments are things that actually help you do What you should do when you need to be doing. Wow, that's a great answer. But what about like watching star wars? Well, I think watching star wars is fine You have to think think about life like this. I know the answer, but I want to hear what you say Okay, this is what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna make it way more complicated than needs to be about life So think about life in like different aspects, right? So there's like there's you there's like, you know, your girlfriend and you There's single like, you know work your sport whatever and then there's like the rest of mankind If whatever you're doing is like in some way benefiting these things. Yeah, that's good So maybe you're watching a movie with your girlfriend That gives you insight about like Global things that's helping like three parts of your life, right? Like it doesn't help this one, but it helps these. Okay. Well, you could just work till one in the morning And that'll help these two But This one helps, you know Three I don't think I've ever done this So I've never done this before so I've never done this to one. Can you see this one? I'm doing One in the world. I've never done that one. You just did that You just did but um so Yeah, anyway, the point is though that I think it's totally fine. I think it's just Life is not a sprint Life is a marathon So if you have a schedule and like say on your schedule, you have to work from eight to six Okay, work from eight to six, but then from six to 12 Enjoy yourself do other things But as long as you get your other things done like if you keep your house clean, you know, you're eating You're still eating well and you decide you're gonna play games for three hours Cool play games for three hours does it doesn't bring you enjoyment doesn't bring you happiness to you and your friends enjoy it together That's great. Yeah, it's there's nothing wrong with that But just do whatever you're doing no matter what it is Just do it Just actually do it be there and do it So when you're working work and when you're playing play But just don't mix the two I like that No But you kind of mix the two You can mix the thing what I'm saying is though is like my work is play because I enjoy it so much There you go But but when I'm working I'm working It's not I'm not just doing it for the fun of it like I do do it for the fun of it, but it's still For me, it's the same thing. What was the biggest shift that helped you turn dunking into your career Um or the hardest opposite. Yeah. Yeah. What was the hardest part for you to like, uh, like you would tell your younger self that you could really make dunking a career Good question. I think the hardest thing Honestly was to just start I think um, like when I first started training like way back in the day like back when I was on bounce kit, um, like it Before I'd really even talk to any of y'all that much Um, I was like, oh, there's no way like I'm good, but I'll never be that good And I kind of had to like tell myself, you know what it doesn't matter if you get that good Like just do it. So I just did it. Wow I wouldn't say that it was necessarily hard, but it was scary. Yeah Like a little bit. I didn't realize it at the time But I was like I was spending so much time on it when I first started that Like, you know, if it hadn't worked out, it would have been a quote-unquote waste of time I don't believe that anymore. Obviously. I don't think anything's a waste of time ever. I love that. Yeah, go ahead Um That's the hardest thing that's the hardest thing I think for I think that's one of the biggest tips You could possibly give someone that's starting dunking or trying to go to that level is that Just go for it because a lot of times we want to stop or there's like, there's no way I can do that And that already stops you right there doubt doubt's Word it's a word. What's one of your biggest mine is like, uh, the fear like I don't I don't want to ever act in fear Of things Doubt fear and anxiety are like the same thing, but do you have one that stands out for you? Doubt is the same as here actually I don't ever want to have to say I either did something I didn't want to do or I didn't do something I did Hmm. I like the second one's stronger for me It's like a it's like a personal integrity thing So like like if I like I'll give you an example, right? Like I'm not really into drugs like drugs just aren't my thing Everyone has their own like whatever that, you know, they're into and that's fun Yeah, but if I go against my thing and I went and did drugs like I would feel really bad That's just how I am though. Yeah, so like That's something I wouldn't like I wouldn't do it I just I couldn't and it's not that I just like anyone who does I don't it doesn't bother me at all for other people But for me, I can't do it and then in the same sense for myself like I need to be in shape So if I don't work out That's something I should do and if I don't do it That's bad and my fear is Doing things I truly don't want and when I say truly don't want I mean like literally that like me the whatever person being thing like I don't want and Like in the past I would get talked into things and like I knew I didn't want to do it at the time But I would still did it because I was like letting people convince me that I was someone else How do you get over that? How did you get better at deciphering those or getting stronger at saying no? I think a lot of it was just like Just realizing I think the truth is like, you know, everyone knows who they are like deep down you really know Um, but it's cloudy on top, right? It's very cloudy. That's that's what I love about the metaphor That's where the experience comes in though. Like you have to not be scared to experience things because I'm I'm not saying go out and try like all these crazy stuff that you're not sure if it's you but what I'm saying is like If something isn't you just don't be scared To say that or yeah, you know follow that and if something is you don't be scared if you be judged by that Yeah, that's hard to do people think dunking's derpy lots of people think it's dumb Or like it doesn't matter And the truth is is like I don't care because it matters to me and that's all that matters bars bars for barth I'm not here rapping. Oh my when are you gonna drop a track? You told the fans you're gonna drop a track. You promised them one No joke. I was thinking about this yesterday Uh, I don't know man. When you're gonna drop me a beat. No, that's I don't do beats. I do raps you do the beats I don't know man Drop a rap for the fans. Whenever I can get down to uh, where you live and we can just drop an album Yeah, we should do that. That'd be really that would actually be hilarious to drop like, uh I don't even what would we call the album? That's the real question bars bars bars We just put an s but before the tea this is a funny album name for you, but it would be like sell a bit but selly bit There's this produce company on instagram called selly's c e l i s And whenever I watch their stuff, it's so weird because they're just like come to selly's Try the selly's thing. It's weird, but it's awesome. I'm like i'm the biggest fan I want to get endorsed by them. I can think of so many selly themed album names. Like you could have one called like celery Like i'm just thinking of dumb names What does celery mean? I don't know dude, but it's like like the whole like all the tracks are like real fresh super crispy You really got to bite into it to understand, you know, oh goodness gracious um Barth, what's the latest you've seen in the dunk world any dunkers you like that you saw recently or any crazy dunks you saw on the Graham Um, I think dan gross is probably like the craziest thing in dunking right now I think he's about to do a lot of stuff that like You think he's gonna get the self bounce dunk. Yeah, I do. He's about to get it, right? I think I think he could get it by the end of the year easily dude. I think he could get it like what's today's I mean, I think he could hit it any day. Yeah, I think he'll make it before the years out. Yeah So that dunk is insane. Yeah, that dunk is um Dan's different Let's just put it that way. He's got he's one of those athletes have for dunking especially. He's got the perfect physique Yeah, he's the right height. Yeah, he's got the right length of arms Like he's not too long not too short. Yeah, and he's just has dumb bounce Is there any other? Yeah gross bounce. Is he got any other crazy dunks that you think maybe landed for the first time ever this year? I don't know if he's working on anything that I haven't seen Not just him, but anybody else that you're thinking of like trying something crazy any other cool feats I'm gonna hit a new crazy dunk for the years out. Really? Yeah, can you give us a hint? I've tried it before On publicly. Mm-hmm, and it's got a name No Can you give us a name what you would name it? No No Nope, because you don't want to give it away Mostly that but I also I just don't know what I would call it. That's what I figured Can you give us some uh, can you give us some? Can you say if you okay? Can we name it right now? And if you land it by this time it has to be called that I'll call it the whirling bird If we land it by what I'll call it, uh, like what's the most ambitious date? That's realistic I would say like two and a half months from now Okay, so two and a half months october november so december 1st Yeah My birthday is december 4th. Okay. Well, let's make it the fourth then May the fourth be with you star wars full circle on this podcast So if you hit it by december 4th, whatever this dunk is it's going to be called the whirling bird And you get to name it like you're landing on a planet I want to call it the celery now really bad. All right. I'm fine with that All right fun. It's called the celery. I'll even do an album drop for it I'll like if I make it I'll have like a celery like thumbnail But it's definitely one of those where if you land it It's like landing on the moon and you could claim the name of the you didn't name the moon, but 100% no one's ever done it No one's even You guys are hearing this first if he lands it by the freaking december 4th This is a new brand new dunk. This will be my six brand new dunk that I've ever done that no one's ever done Six Yeah, wait, you've done five. Yeah. Oh, let's see if I can get them ready All right. He's done the pico de gallo three you've done the Uh, the razor the razor slice Yes The trapeze elbow big facts The garage trench Which one was that? No, I think that no, sorry. That was um, that was jeremy, uh, bishop Okay, uh, you've done them Oh the silk slam. You've done the silk slam. Yes. Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah How many that's four, right? Yeah, that's four one. That's the last one I can't if you don't remember the last one. I'll actually lose it. Oh, dude. The 360 centipede. Yeah, 100% That's probably a good name for it, too And now you're doing the freaking celery dude by thecember 4th. No, really, let's go through the dunk Can I let me try I know one of them for sure you did the one where is a threw it between your legs? Yep At where was that uh regalapia Oh, can you send me these clips by the way maybe I'll throw them in the podcast I'd have to go find them. I know that's why I don't want to do it. Okay. Well, you go look for it Okay, we got a lot of you somewhere you've done Uh, dude, I don't know reverse pump crown or something like that um I actually so in in the order. I've done them. I believe it's went off the wall Yeah, um The wind off the wall is nasty I did The reverse Scorpions like the scoop reverse scoop scorpion. Okay. Oh, yeah, that's crazy. I did the isaia thing Yeah, I did The behind the back off the backboard Tap to myself Oh, right that thing is disgusting and then also I did a dunk in dunk league that has never been done before But I'm not allowed to say what it is because I'm under it. Yeah sick And but I did it here dude. No one's listening Dunk league watching except for my millions of followers the first episode comes out September 27th So oh dude, that's sick dude. That's coming on two weeks. Yeah. Oh, I actually did One more I may have done a sixth dunk, but no one's done. It's also in dunk league, but I'm not sure All right, give him some energy to end it. I'm not sure give him some energy to end the podcast, baby What could they look forward to this week of their life? I'm getting pizza tonight and It's a day and all I'm saying is like enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself pizza Don't tip freaking Tuesday. I'm gonna roll the outro right now. You could act like you're dancing That was it