Can anyone here dunk or know someone who can in basketball? If so what is your/their height? i want to compare their height and jumping skill with me and my friend .

generally speaking, asians are not very tall! (averaging the total), im not tall myself (just 6ft).

I'm 1.77m and I can't even touch the ring when i jump. =[
But I think I have some friends at school who can...they're at least 10 cm taller than me.

you think 6 feet isnt tall? =O
thats really tall for being asian

Are you crazy? 6 FT is considered TALL for Asians.
Hmmm, I know a couple of dudes who loves to dunk.
One is about 5'9.
The other is 6'3 - *DIES* He's so tall

@siwen

lols. that means ur pretty tall for an asian too, i think its like 3 cms off from 6t but yeah, when i was playing competitive ball, they were all bloody giants!!
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@trusoul
Woooo...5'9 and he can dunk, what an athlete.

183 cm = 6 ft

177 cm = 5'10"

IMO, 6 ft is average height for asian guys nowadays.

I am 5'8 and can almost touch the rim if i try

6ft is HEAPS tall o_o
A normal Asian is like .. 150-160cm ROFL

I can't dunk, I can't even touch the rim
I think my friend can .. he's almost 190cm I think

lols i know of friends who are above 190 (not asian of course) and can't dunk it, "big for nothing!". i always say that to them, ticks them off




yeah, i read somewhere it was the food/diet they eat/take. Asians that are born in the western world are taller than the ones from their heritage background country. So eat some western food !

eat your salad you fat bastards! xD

I'm 6ft, and I play basketball (currently injured and recovering from a knee reconstruction), I can't dunk, but I can touch the ring (regulation height).

I was doing Air Alert before I suffered my injury.

Wish I was taller in bball though, being 6ft makes me so short amongst other players.

I'm 6'4 and I can barely dunk, it takes a lot of work to get your legs to want to go to that high. Asian genetics aren't made for jumping in my opinion haha.

well i cant ...yet haha
but my friends can. 5 6 black guy. and 5 11 puerto rican guy
and 5 11 somoan guy all can

most of us asians are too short but it would be great if we can huh

Wow you are tall...I'm only like 5'9''

But...you also asked for jumping height no? ^^

I can jump about...like half my height? So around 0.8m - 0.9m...Dunno what that is in feet...

But I do lots of jumping sports in track...so I've practiced a lot to get to that height @_@

I've been hearing alot of injuries from air alert and have been asking around. Vertical jump bible is a high recommendation since it is safe aswell, thats what i hear so i be taking it up this holidays.


fock, i reckon u can dunk it with ease.

my friend is 6'3 and he's hassler when it comes to dunk.

im 5'8 and i can touch the rim with the ball. does that count for anything

I'm 6'1" I've been able to dunk since 5'11" or so. if you want to dunk you gotta work on your ass and you gotta do explosive exercises: sprints, stadiums, jumping etc.

I trained with jump shoes after my freshman year of college with a couple of other dudes and could dunk after that. 90 minutes of sprints/jumping until you puke, stretching and weights 5 times a week. the good thing is that once you have the muscles in your ass and calves you'll have the hops forever as long as you stay in reasonably good shape



from what i've seen most average height guys in good shape can get up around the rim. IMO anyone who's at least average height has the potential to be able to dunk at least a volleyball if they know how to properly train to increase their vertical. The larger stumbling block IMO is that asian guys have small hands, if you want to dunk it helps to be able to get a good grip on the ball, otherwise you're losing a couple inches cradling the basketball.

and "asian" doesn't really mean anything. you're talking about a 1.7 billion person genepool there's more variation between a korean dude and a samoan than between the average white and black guy in the US (the majority of whom are mixed). from playing sports with lots of different asian dudes tho, there are definitely things you see between the asian races for example the average height in korea now is 5'10" (same as americans) and they tend to be stockier than chinese guys. japanese dudes of course are like all 5'7" and weak up top but for some reason I've met a lot of japanese dudes who are really fast and a lot who can really sky for their height. I dont know why that is... a friend of mine has a theory that although koreans are taller they have longer torsos and shorter (proportional) arms while japanese are smaller and more proportioned so they can jump higher LMAO

but yeah anyone can increase their vertical so dont believe that crap that asians cant dunk. dunking in a game tho is a whole other level. I've only seen a couple asian guys who could do that easily

Well, I'm 5'10 and I can double hand grab the ring, and I can dunk a volleyball. But not a basketball.
I'm only 16, but the last half year or so I haven't been able to get any more vertical, which sucks cos I was hoping to be able to dunk by now.

There's this dude who I played in primary school with, he's only like a centimetre or so taller than me. But in a rep game (he was on the other team) on a fast break he just rises and dunks over me, he's white though.

my friend can, He's only 5'7" and he can dunk on 10ft. rim, he's naturally very athletic for me.....im over 6ft, but i can't dunk well since im over weight now

5'10", I can smack the backboard really hard. Really. Hard.