Dunk Talk w/ Dylan Haugen

About Dunk Talk w/ Dylan Haugen

The Dunk Talk Podcast is made by dunkers, for dunkers. We share insight and knowledge from Professional and Amateur Dunkers to help you on your own dunk journey.

Publisher

Dylan Haugen

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

77 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   First Dunk at 12, Now He's in Shaq's DunkMan League: Avante "The Joker" Nichols | Dunk Talk #77

   Today we've got Avante "The Joker" Nichols, a fellow DunkMan League athlete and a good friend of mine, and we went through his whole dunk journey from low rimming as a kid all the way to competing in Shaq's DunkMan League this year. Avante played pretty much every sport growing up before locking in on basketball around fourth or fifth grade. He spent basically all of sixth grade in the gym getting his friends to throw him lobs with tennis balls (and one time a shoe), and got his first dunk in the last couple weeks of sixth grade at 12 years old and around 5'7". His first in-game dunk came in seventh grade. Kobe was the one who made him want to dunk, and once he started watching pros he latched onto Jonathan Clark, partly because Clark was a teacher, which is kind of crazy to think about. We also got into his move from Georgia to JUCO ball in Kansas, the 360 Eastbay off the side of the glass that went viral and put him on the radar, 2K calling him to do dunk animations, and the DunkMan TV show. He's still playing college basketball right now, and he was super honest about being stuck between chasing basketball and going all in on dunking. Then we broke down his DunkMan group stage in Group B, where he hit a Toe Touch first try in front of Jonathan Clark and was sitting in first going into the finals of the Group Stage. His passer disappeared two days before, so his high school PG stepped in with about an hour and a half of practice, and he ended up just missing both finals dunks, including a free throw line dunk he kept secret the whole time. He still finished 11th overall in year one. Since then he won the Bulls Fest in Chicago, jumping over Benny the Bull, and he actually had a dream about that exact contest months before it happened. That story is pretty wild. Shout out to Avante for hopping on. His advice for anyone trying to become a dunker is super simple: just jump, take care of your body, have fun, and don't compare yourself to anybody. Let us know in the comments who you want to see on Dunk Talk next, and if you're new here, subscribe and follow along. Support the Dunk Talk Podcast: Website: https://dunktalks.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dunktalks TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dunktalkpodcast X: https://x.com/dunktalkpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Dunk-Talk-61577990706901/Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4737NyBcPveHp3CAftdj5i?si=g7RCdo7RQ72kYjf0daGOgg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dunk-talk/id1748327178Today's Speakers:Dylan Haugen (Host) Website: https://dylan-haugen.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanhaugen23/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DylanHaugen23 Avante Nichols (Guest) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejoker.dmor/ YouTube:  ⁨@Thejokerdmor⁩  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCsSaAkRsURvIxvS58Am2S5g)

2. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Dunkers With 690,000 Followers on Why Your Dunks Get No Views | Dunk Talk #76

   I'm Dylan Haugen, and I flew out to North Carolina to link up with Travis Reynolds and Ben Hopkins, so we sat down and talked about the thing basically every dunker runs into at some point: you can throw down a crazy dunk, post it raw, and get 500 views. Between the three of us we've got around 690,000 followers across platforms. This episode is how we actually got them.Travis's whole approach is volume and trends. He's at 95,000 on YouTube, 82,000 on Instagram, 87,000 on TikTok and 39,000 on Facebook, and he'll tell you straight up that dunking alone is too small an audience to grow on. You have to go broader and relate it back to dunking. He also goes into engagement bait pretty heavily, stuff like putting "I'm only 6 feet" on every video, or calling an 8 foot rim 12 feet and letting the comments do the rest. He remade one video just to add that text back in and it took off way harder than the original. He also color graded a video of mine recently, and that one did 5 million on Facebook.Ben went the complete opposite direction. He got injured, couldn't dunk, and started making longer talking videos instead, combining his engineering degree with dunking. Can I jump higher than a Roblox character got 16 million views and basically changed everything. He's at 121,000 on YouTube now and doing content full time. He breaks down his actual structure in here: double hooks, making yourself credible early, rewarding the viewer every few seconds, and cutting the video off mid word the second you deliver the answer. He also spends four plus hours per video and posts every other day, which is why I wanted him on for this one.We also get into retention graphs, why filming from four backyards away is killing your videos, in video text and fonts, posting frequency, what happens to your channel when you take time off, and Frank the mannequin. If you want more from Ben, he was on back in episode 61 talking about sacrificing his knee to win a dunk contest.Shout out to Ben and Travis for hopping on. Comment your biggest takeaway, and if you want us to review your content let us know in the comments and we'll actually take a look. More episodes coming, so drop guest requests below, and if you're new here subscribe and follow along.Support the Dunk Talk Podcast:Website: https://dunktalks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dunktalksTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dunktalkpodcastX: https://x.com/dunktalkpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Dunk-Talk-61577990706901/Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4737NyBcPveHp3CAftdj5i?si=g7RCdo7RQ72kYjf0daGOggListen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dunk-talk/id1748327178Today's Speakers:Dylan Haugen -Website: https://dylan-haugen.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanhaugen23/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DylanHaugen23Travis Reynolds -Website: https://travisdunks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travisdunks/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@TravisDunksBen Hopkins - Website: https://www.benbounces.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benbounces/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@benbounces

3. 

   23 Aug 2026

   Breakdown of Every Dunk From Shaq's DunkMan League (Group Stages A-D) | Dunk Talk #75

   Travis Reynolds and I went through every single dunk from all four group stages of Shaq's DunkMan League, which is the first ever professional dunking league. 24 guys, four groups of six, and the winner of the finals takes home $500,000, which is the biggest prize in dunk history. The finals are this Tuesday, August 25th at 8:00 PM Eastern on TNT and HBO Max, so we wanted to get this out before then.Group Stage A was Cam Hazzard's night. He'd never done a dunk competition before and he opened with a reverse 360 Windmill where the ball hit the ground before he did, then closed it out with a 360 pump into a full Tomahawk that got a 9.55 and Dunk of the Night. Travis and I were actually in the building for that one. Group Stage B came down to Dylan McCarthy, who is jumping 52+ inches. Isaiah Rivera took Group C. And then Group D is the one I was in, against Mac McClung and Jordan Southerland.I break down my own dunks too, the Dubble Up X, the Hand-Off 180 Eastbay, and then the Inverted Scorpion over Someone in the final round that got a 9.28. I go into what I was feeling during the event and a bit of the strategy behind the dunks I chose. Ended up securing the wildcard spot as the 6 seed, so I'm in the finals.The finals are one night, head to head, single elimination. Mac versus Chen, Cam versus Joel, me versus Isaiah, and Dylan McCarthy versus Jordan Southerland. Two dunks, two attempts, best dunk wins, so people are going to be trying some crazy stuff.Shout out to Travis for hopping on and grinding through all four of these with me. We'll be back to break down the finals once they air. If you're new here, subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss it.Support the Dunk Talk Podcast:Website: https://dunktalks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dunktalksTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dunktalkpodcastX: https://x.com/dunktalkpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Dunk-Talk-61577990706901/Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4737NyBcPveHp3CAftdj5i?si=g7RCdo7RQ72kYjf0daGOggListen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dunk-talk/id1748327178Today's Speakers:Dylan Haugen (Host)Website: https://dylan-haugen.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanhaugen23/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DylanHaugen23Travis Reynolds -Website: https://travisdunks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travisdunks/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@TravisDunks

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96,065

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

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80

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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