How to Do a 360 Basketball Dunk

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Travis Corpering and I'm about to teach you how to do a 360. Here we are at Carolina Beach Recreation Center here in beautiful Carolina Beach, North Carolina. And what I want to do is teach you, first of all, the footwork that you have put in to actually getting the 360 down, after you already have practiced increasing your vertical leap enough to actually dunk the ball. So, what I want to show you first is, when you're taking off and trying to prepare yourself for the 360, what you want to is, you want to step through. If you're right handed, it'll probably be easier for you to come from the right side of the basket or maybe straight on from the front. What you want to do is, you want to get a running start, dribbling towards the basket. About four steps away from the goal, depending upon how high your vertical leap is, about four steps away from the goal, what you want to do is, you want to take off on possibly, if you're right handed, you want to take off on your left leg. If you're left handed, you want to take off on your right leg. But once you take off, you want to immediately pop and try to spot the rim. That's so imperative, because if you don't spot the rim after you spin, you're going to miss because you're not going to know where the rim is. So, your most important thing is to actually spot the rim after you take off. And once you spot the rim, bring it quickly down into the basket, because that centrifugal force is taking away from your actual vertical leap. So, what you want to do is get that spin down as fast as possible, so you can complete the dunk. There you have it -- a 360."