You can't create fast twitch muscles, OP. Or as they say - sprinters are born, not made.

I am even more certain than you that there are more than 500 million 5'5" people on earth... quite a few more.

Almost everyone I know has been 5'5" at some point in their lives.. I was once 5'5" too.

How much is the bet for?

The word "are" is a present state of being. So it would imply that at this very moment there are fewer than 500 million people on earth at the height of 5'5".

Height is a continuous variable so technically nobody is 5'5.

they also have Will Bynum (pistons PG) listed at 6'0 i believe. He was a good 3 inches shorter than A.I. was standing in warmups as I recall last year. I wouldn't doubt it if Robinson is 5'5 actually.

No, they are both born and then made. You can't make it if you don't have the genetics, you can't make it if you don't train.

You have basically zero chance of pulling this off. It is because you are starting high (or were at least) that each inch you put on will take time. It took me probably two years of dedicated training to go from a 33" (completely untrained early in HS I was about 30") to about 36" which is probably going to be close to my genetic limit. That you are starting at 25" because of injury makes going to 38" in 9 months just LOL. Also, I needed to get close to 10" over the rim before I could really dunk and I can easily palm the ball. It will be more then that otherwise, for some friends it took close to a foot.

If you ever got a legit 38" there is no chance you couldn't back squat well over 2xbw. No matter how much reflective strength you have or how high a percentage of type IIA fiber you have you will never be able to jump that high without the raw strength to squat at least 2x bw, probably much more.

Here is a calculator which tells you roughly what you would have to olympic squat to get to a 38" vertical. Note that a Olympic squat corresponds to a much higher low bar to parallel squat which is what most people are referring to when they quote a squat #. http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/...alculator.html

Apparently I suck at jumping since my actual vert and what this calc tells me for my power snatch are lol off :/

this... i am 5 7 and jump high and it will take you a lot more than 6 months of training to do this. i'm not so pessimistic as kpc though. i bet with 2.5 years of training there is a 30% chance you could dunk

have you ever heard of hyperbole, you ground bound midget? i'm just pointing out that far more freakishly athletic people than you will rarely ever achieve dunking a basketball(or any other sort of ball) on a 10 foot goal simply because they are so short. good luck with your jumpsole program.

I remember the guy that made the formula said that he was referring to a very high catch power snatch involving almost no dip. I get pretty close with both of these, jumping a bit higher then my olympic squat # and probably a bit lower then my power snatch # would imply according to the formula. It is also meant for someone that trains to jump at least to some extent.

The squat numbers on that calculator work almost perfectly for me.

I'm 5'7 and I made a bet with my friends to windmill a proper basketball. I didn't make it but yeah I can dunk it normally. And.. I'm asian.

So yeah, it can be done at your height. Especially since you're using a mini ball, it's so much easier.

Watch this every day before you train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1hFK24B0VE

I think we are aware that is humanly possible for a 5'5 person to dunk.

Do you get to choose the gym? I've seen many short guys with about a 30" leap dunk a regular basketball. Small gym with six baskets. The side four baskets are near a wall. They run up the wall and jump off of it. They can dunk that way.

Coming from someone who has trained their vertical in an effort to dunk (I'm 5'9), theres no way you get this done in 6 months especially coming off an injury. To develop the kind of explosiveness you need will take considerably longer + you'll have to drop as much bf as possible

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Lol not a chance in hell. I'm 5'10, full squat 2x my BW, have super long arms (relatively) and can barely touch rim. Not that I'm the most athletic guy in the world but there is just no way that this is going to happen.

lol you have an epic ****ty vert.

OP you better start stacking your stacks.

frank yang?

I'm 5'5'' also and can, or at least used to be able to, hit up to half of the net. And that was hard enough... and it's like 9'5''. It's attainable but it is going to be extremely hard, dunking basically requires you having to reach ~4 inches above the rim. So say 10'4'' is the ultimate goal. Gonna need hugeeee vert.

Half way up the net for me is hard enough. You're gonna have to work your ass off. But it can be done.

Also, if you are white, LOL GG

LOL at legit 4.2. Was more than likely not accu-track. Prob handed timed.

Well you have zero hops then.

Looks like this is probably the case. It won't deter me from trying and starting a log though. I'm about 1/3 way through the Vertical Jump Bible and it has some very high quality information. The bet was with a non poker friend so it's nothing I'll sweat too much. But if I seem to be progressing well at 6 months, I'll try and get him to make another bet giving me 1-2 more years to do it.