Piotr Zawiślak

The Craziest Jumper I Have Ever Seen

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:57:05 +0000

I have watched a lot of jumpers on my phone. Then at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City I stood in the gym while Ethan Pimstone jumped in front of me, and it was not the same thing at all. A video flattens it. In person you understand how far away the rim is from a normal person, and then you watch him go past it. He jumps 52.5 inches. That is a world record max vertical jump.

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The Best Low Rim Dunker I Have Ever Seen

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:56:12 +0000

I watched Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney on my phone in Poland for years before I ever stood next to him. Mini hoop clips first, then low rim, then full rims. This summer at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City I was three meters away from him instead of holding a screen. Then somebody pointed a camera at the two of us and asked me what I thought. I said it fast and I meant it. I have been to…

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Meeting Jordan Kilganon, the Reason I Started

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:55:18 +0000

Every day I do hand speed drills that I learned from Jordan Kilganon’s YouTube channel. Not sometimes. Daily. Before an important contest I bring my ball to the gym and spend about an hour doing nothing else. I have been doing this for years in Poland, alone, from a screen. This summer at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City, I met the person who invented those drills. He is the most famous dunker…

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Dunking in Front of Dunkademics

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:54:20 +0000

Dunkademics was a channel on my phone in Poland long before it was a camera pointed at me. Almost every dunker I learned from, I met through that channel first. I watched the clips at home, alone, for years. This summer at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City, Billy Doran of Dunkademics stood on the same court as me with his camera up. That was my first time. When he asked me how camp was going…

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Two Years Ago I Was Dunking Outdoors. Now I Am on the FIBA Circuit.

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:53:31 +0000

Two years ago I did all my dunking outside. Outdoor rims, whatever the weather in Poland gave me that day, no crowd, no camera except my phone leaning on a bag. I watched FIBA contests online and I thought about being in one someday. This summer I flew to Utah for The Dunk Camp in Utah, and one week after camp I fly to France for a FIBA event. I have already done one of these. I took third in…

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Isaiah Rivera Called Me the Future of Dunking

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:52:34 +0000

Two years ago I was watching Isaiah Rivera’s dunks on my phone in Poland. This summer he was standing next to me at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City, on camera, and someone asked him what he thought of me. This is what he said. I said thank you. That is all I could say in the moment. I have watched the clip back many times since then and I still do not have a better answer than thank you.

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My Week at The Dunk Camp Was One of the Best Weeks of My Life

Piotr Zawiślak — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:58:47 +0000

Hi, I am Piotr Zawiślak. I am a professional dunker from Poland, I am 18 years old, and I am one of only 13 people in the world to earn The Dunk Camp Black Band, which is the highest rank in dunking. This is the first post on my new site, and I wanted it to be about something that meant a lot to me: my week at The Dunk Camp in Utah. For a long time I have watched dunk content coming out of…

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Bringing Polish Hops to America

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:29:46 +0000

Here is the road ahead. I am based in Poland, but the center of gravity for dunking right now is in the United States: the biggest contests, the biggest camps, and the biggest audiences. My plan is to close that distance. LA, Dallas, Vegas, Miami. I want to bring my dunking to the stages and contests where the sport is growing the fastest, and show that world-class hops are not tied to any…

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How I Earned the Black Band: One of 13 in the World

Piotr Zawiślak — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:29:46 +0000

There is a list, kept by The Dunk Camp, of every dunker in the world who has earned the Black Band. It has 13 names on it. Mine is one of them, and I am the only one from Poland. If you do not follow dunking closely, that might not land yet. So let me explain what it actually means, because it is the single most important thing to understand about me as an athlete. In martial arts…

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