How to Do a Two-Handed Basketball Dunk

Video Transcript

"You know one important and powerful piece to your game is you're dunking, can be dunking with two hands, because what it allows you to do is be unstoppable when you're going towards the rim. Hi, I'm Travis, and this is how to complete that powerful two-handed jam. What you want to do is, just like any other dunk, you want to step toward the basket. Now, as you step toward the basket, you dribble, you try to get as much--try to give as much time running toward the basket and speed, running toward the basket that you can control and handle. And then you take off. Now when you take off, plant that left foot. If you're left handed, plant that right foot. And once you take off, you want to come up, both hands on the ball, bring it up, get it just above the rim, and bring it down. Now, if you want to bring it back behind your head, that chances the dunk a little bit. That's called a tomahawk dunk. But if you want a basic two handed dunk, that's what you first. You want to make sure that you get the ball just above the rim. Don't try to slam it too hard--that's what a lot of amateurs do when their first trying to dunk. They try to dunk too hard, just trying to get that effect, but that actually will, if you don't know how to dunk yet, that actually will slow you up a little bit, and you probably won't complete it. So what you want to do is you want to make sure you can get it just above the rim first, and slam it down. Slam it down. Take it light first, and then once you get better at it, start adding more power. There you have it, two handed slam dunking."