On the test was a question about T-Dub's boy Seth. Eventually after high school, he and his friend Kevin, who had a mog against Tony Hawk, were going to have a bartamach. Eventually, Tony Hawk went insane and constructed a toilet, that ended in a toss-up between them. After that situation, T-Dub became a pimp and gained many princesses, proclaiming that Mario only had one princess, thus T-Dub being superior.
T-Dub then began his rapping career and formed a band using toys as instruments. Their first performance was in the Big Round Town, and proved to be a success. Eventually, T-Dub and his boys stopped playing games and started going on reigns with dames. T-Dub also attempted to become a basketball icon at this time. Whilst he was a top dog, it wasn't as successful as he would've wished.
We were just losing our minds. We had no idea what to expect. He definitely caught us by surprise. He wanted a new goal. Something difficult. Something with an expiration date.
He wanted to compete in a dunk contest. After all, it was how his love for dunking started in the first place. This was in , and Nicholson was 44 years old. His videos were making rounds in the dunk community on Instagram and YouTube. Both pro and aspiring dunkers knew of him. Top professional dunkers like Kilganon and Isaiah Rivera — who recently won the Quai 54 dunk contest in Paris by jumping over Blake Griffin — heard that Nicholson was planning to compete in a dunk contest and leaped at the opportunity to support him.
Go for it. Nicholson submitted a video to FitCon — a fitness convention in Salt Lake City — and was one of four dunkers to get accepted for the show.
The last thing Nicholson wanted to do was qualify for a dunk contest and not land a single dunk. When that dunk contest finally came around, Nicholson — of course — was the first dunker to go. He fought through the adrenaline and landed a one-handed dunk off the glass, punching it through on his first attempt.
Findlay told Nicholson in the lead up to contest that the mere shock value of a year-old dunker would be worth points, so just focus on completing the dunks. And for the most part, Findlay was right. It was something I wanted to do. Some people want to do an Iron Man. Nicholson and Findlay had made a trip to Florida to meet up with an All-Star cast of dunkers.
The money they earn from touring for dunk contests, specialized jump programs and merchandise sales pays their bills. The group spent the week dunking, talking about dunking, teaching each other new techniques, spending time together away from the gym.
Nicholson noticed how people had traveled thousands of miles to be part of this group, and now that he had competed in a dunk contest, more and more people were reaching out for advice.
The dunk world has kind of grown since and keeps sharing ideas. There had to be a way to help aspiring dunkers while also continuing to bring the online dunk community together … in person.
Nicholson remembered how he used to travel as a kid for basketball camps, but he had never heard of a dunk camp. Nicholson thought back to his dunk journey. He wished he had real dunkers, real experts around to guide him and accelerate his progress. Nicholson was sure there were other aspiring dunkers out there who would benefit from the connections he built during his journey to dunk. He pitched the idea for the camp, and the group of dunkers loved the idea. His family was surprised how serious Nicholson was about the idea.
According to Kilganon, it was something that had been talked about in the dunk community, but nobody actually went out and did it … until Nicholson. I had a lot of experience at this point about jumping and dunking. I have relationships with a lot of professional dunkers. So, Ricky Norton is the owner of Norton Performance. I was very familiar with P3. Ricky was a mentor and trained there. He was building his training business in Utah where I live, so I thought that Ricky would be a great fit for this.
He loved it. So, Ricky and I partnered up and we created the camp. We were at a different facility last year, and in between last and this year, he built this facility.
Nicholson wanted the camp to be a vehicle to improve the skills of not just experienced dunkers, but he also wanted people who had never dunked before to feel welcomed. They would focus on the technical aspects of jumping. The process was slow at first. It was a major undertaking for the entire Nicholson family. But relying heavily on social media, word of the camp started to spread.
The next two months would see 35 more people sign up for the camp. The involvement of Rivera, C. When it was all said and done, 48 athletes from seven countries would sign up for the first camp. The Dunk Camp was officially born. In that first week alone, 82 percent of the attendees saw an increase in their verticals from Day 1 to Day 4. Four people had their first-ever dunks on a foot rim, and they got to do so with pro dunkers and other campers cheering them on.
This is our WHY! Congrats Assad!!! There was Clark literally kicking the ball with his feet in mid-air while finishing off a For Nicholson, he hopes this is just the beginning — not just for his camp but also for the sport of dunking. He can see the camp growing and moving to multiple locations — maybe even holding camps abroad. Two versions of the music video were uploaded, one with subtitles, the other without. In , the channel blew up, with their most viewed video, the music video with subtitles , gaining one point six million views.
The following are official words from the poster of T-Dub's videos. These are not his exact words but it is generally what he said. In Fall of [1] in my town of Alpena, the high school held a talent show.
I was informed to see the evening showing since there was a guy that "rapped and danced," so I brought my camera and filmed it. Then the video took off.
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