V.T.'s Dunking Experiment: Day Three

Went to the gym to resume the dunking workout but left gym card at home. Ran some stairs and jumped as high as possible 60 times. 100 push ups. A few sprints around the track outside. Not getting very far off the ground. It's looking doubtful V.T. will ever get past the rim.

V.T.'s Dunking Experiment: Day Two

V.T. is modifying his dunking experiment. That surfer dude's dunking regime included the South Beach Diet, as his friend Dave just reminded him. V.T. seriously doubts that carbs will affect his dunking. Surely he can dunk and continue to eat Frosted Mini Wheats for breakfast.

V.T.'s Dunking Experiment: Day One

It's not really original, but Vanilla Thunder is going to try an experiment. After reading about this 33 year-old, 5'8'' surfer dude learning to dunk for the first time in his life, V.T. got inspired. He once dunked in high school. Once, in a scrimmage his junior year against Bishop Kelley high school in Tulsa. Then he got tendinitis and currently weighs about 30 pounds more than he weighed back then. But if this guy can dunk with his 21'' vertical leap, V.T. thinks he can, too.

For the next few months, V.T. is going to chronicle his attempts to dunk a basketball. Keep in mind, he's a six-foot, 206 pound 34 year-old with marginal athletic skills. But he is fanatical about his basketball and there is nothing more satisfying in the game than dunking.

Day One:
V.T. encounters an article about dunking while procrastinating on his grading. He decides that he can do it. He will give himself one year to complete the task of dunking a basketball. He prints the article, weighs down a backpack and jogs 2 miles to the gym. 10 minutes spent jumping rope and 10 minutes spent jumping as high as he can. He is tired. His knees feel 30 years older than he does. This is the end of day one. V.T. is skeptical that he will ever dunk a basketball again. But he will go on. He must go on.