FinnPeople call me the 1FootDisciple for a reason. Most pro dunkers gather and explode off two feet, it’s more controllable and, honestly, easier to load. I go off one foot at full speed. It’s rarer, it’s harder, and it’s the way I fell in love with dunking in the first place.
It started in the driveway, lowering the rim and pretending to be Derrick Rose or LeBron. The first time I touched the rim at 16, I was hooked. I never did formal vertical-jump training back then, it was just basketball and an obsession with going up off one leg until it became instinct. Channels like Dunkademics and Steven Celi showed me what was possible, and I chased it.
The numbers eventually followed: a 43-inch vertical off one foot, around 39 off two. But the real unlock was treating it like a craft, moderate strength work (quarter squats changed everything), low-volume but high-quality jump sessions, and learning new trick dunks on a slightly lowered rim before taking them to the full 10.
Then Jordan Kilganon, the guy a lot of people call the greatest dunker ever, brought me out to train at his place in Ontario. Getting to learn one-foot creativity from someone at that level is surreal. So is getting paid to perform at a camp for Jordan “1FootGod” Southerland, who I’d idolized since I was 13.
One foot is the harder road. That’s exactly why I picked it.