Dunk Training For Players Who Want to Catch More Dunks

The dunk is probably the most electrifying shot in basketball. Sure there are other shots. The buzzer beater comes to mind to name another shot. But when it comes to demoralizing your opponents, the dunk can do it like no other shot.

So how do you train to dunk? Well let's begin with what most players do. Most players go out and lower the basket to about 9 feet or even 8 feet and dunk for fun. In my neighborhood growing up we would turnover a garbage can and jump off of it to dunk.

Those methods are quite fun. But they usually don't lead to anything besides a quick burst of excitement followed by an awkward feeling when you go back to the regulation 10 foot basket. In most cases the rim started to feel like it was 11 feet high. So for this reason, I don't recommend that players go out and train for dunking on low baskets.

First and foremost, you'll have to work on your vertical jump. Some of the best ways to increase your vertical are plyometrics, strength training with weights, and sprint work. But as far as actual dunk training here are 2 ways to work on dunking to help you get up higher over the rim.

A Tennis Ball

If you are jumping high enough to hang on the rim I recommend you start training with a tennis ball. I know it is much smaller. But two things will start to happen. You'll build power and explosiveness by jumping more. And then over time you'll eventually get up high enough, to get your wrist over the rim. And then high enough to where you can swap out the tennis ball with a basketball and start working on dunking with that.

Once you can dunk there are two methods that I recommend. First, you'll want to work on being able to dunk standing. This is tough, but if you want to dunk with authority, you'll need to be able to stand under the basket and just go straight up without a step and dunk the ball. Once you can get to the point where you can dunk the ball standing with two hands, you've arrived.

To practice this, you can start with a tennis ball and just work on dunking standing with no steps. If needed, you can take a drop step until you get up higher. I would recommend doing sets of 10 with these. And work your way up to 100+ reps, which is over 10 sets.

Clapping Board

If you can't touch the rim yet, you'll want to stick with clapping board. This is simple. To clap board all you do is smack the backboard as you lay the ball in. If you can clap board with one hand work on that. Then graduate to working on clapping with two hands. You want to work on jumping higher and higher when you clap board.

You'll notice that you're jumping higher. Then you want to test with the tennis ball. Use the clapping board training strategy until you can get up high enough to at least dunk a tennis ball.

I found some more sneaky ways like this dunk training workout to show you how to throw it down and increase your vertical by 10 inches. Visit my site to get the Free mini-course at http://VerticalJumpAnswers.com now.