[spiderman]

I know this thread has been dead for a few weeks but a couple corrections...Barkley is 6' 4 1/2", maybe 6' 5". I don't remember him breaking backboards. Darryl Dawkins shattered many backboards, he was on the Sixers too, he was 6'11" and maybe 260 lbs. They used to call them Darryl's Diamonds. They'd have to stop the game, sweep up, and get a replacement backboard.

Dunking has more to do with technique than anything else. You become a good jumper by jumping. If you can get your wrist to the rim then you should be dunking a basketball, no question, 4" over rim is plenty. I'm 6' and dunked for years in my late teens and early twenties. I started with a tennis ball to build confidence and get the technique down, actually I'd slam just about anything, tin cans, paper bags balled up, whatever I could get my hands on. Then one day I went up with the ball and there it was. There's a lot of 'mental' to it...you have to think big, get that air. If you try to get to the rim you fall short...if you try to get to the top of the backboard you just might get that rim. Workout advice would be jumping, plyometrics and really working on technique.