People 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.
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