My Story

I grew up in North Carolina playing a little bit of everything without being great at any of it. Some basketball, some flag football. Honestly, I was a chubby, overweight kid. Around 11 or 12 I watched a classmate touch something on a hoop that I couldn’t reach, and that was it. Jumping became the thing. In the summer of 2014 I saw Jonathan Clark’s 360 Elbow dunk and started following Isaiah Rivera from basically his first dunk, and pro dunking went from something I watched to something I wanted.

I got my first dunk on a regulation rim in April 2018, at 15 years old. Then came the plateau: a year and a half of basic one-handers, jumping every single day at 210 pounds with no structured training. By the end of 2019 my knees gave out with jumper’s knee, and that low point became the turning point. I joined THP for treatment and training, cut 40 pounds in six months, and everything opened up.

The dunk that defines me took ten months. I worked the Behind the Back every session from January to October 2020, mostly on a low rim in my driveway, and when it finally went down the community gave me the nickname I still carry: The Behind the Back. From there came the 360 Behind the Back, the Eastbay Elbow, and eventually the black band from The Dunk Camp, which means landing the full elite dunk set in one session.

Since 2024 I’ve been a recurring co-host on the Dunk Talk Podcast with Dylan Haugen, with featured episodes on my journey, off-hand training, the NBA Dunk Contest, and why dunkers should make long-form content. Dylan also wrote a full feature on my story.

I train through a back injury that ended barbell squatting for me, manage quad tendinopathy with careful load management, and treat every session like data: laser-measured rim heights, honest captions, everything documented. That’s the whole approach. Reps, honesty, and the long game.

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