The Dunk Tank

So pissed that I was never able to dunk, in my prime. I'm about 6'3" and could get up enough to grab the rim, but that was all. A constant source of disappointment.

I'm 5'10" but if I get a really good running start I can almost touch the rim!

a year after i tore my MCL i decided if i was ever going to dunk a basketball i had to do the work and get it done. i told everyone it was a new years resolution. friends would text me throughout the year and ask how progress was going.

i never made an attempt, or any effort to really work at it.

I got some good dunks in on the Dombrowski back in the day

Yeah, 5'9'' and at my peak I could get rim. Not even close nowadays and a decade of obsessive distance running has rendered the fast-twitch muscles in my legs non-existent.

If you are a man who has dunked on a regulation size basket, you're about as close as one can get to having lived a worthwhile life.

I remember legitimately making this some sort of a life goal when I was a young teenager.

In hindsight, I had a lot of terribly misguided goals that set me up for a lot of disappointment.