Feeney Talks With Friends

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #143 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Chidebe Ndibe

It was great to talk with my #friend, Chi!

Chidebe is an Associate Software Engineer at The Hartford and the Content Creator of Jumps By Chi.

We talked about:
143 & Nancy Sohn (minute 1)
Working at The Hartford (minute 2)
Explain “Software Engineer” to a 3rd Grader (minute 4)
Jumps by Chi (minute 7)
Jumping Events: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 10)
Feeney’s leg press (minute 15)
Leg exercises for jumping (minute 17)
Elastic Volume (minute 22)
Increase Deep Squats (minute 24)
Attending The Dunk Camp in Utah (minute 28)
The Lost Breed (minute 30)
Stephen Espinal (Podcast guest #122) is a good #friend (minute 32)
Inspiration for Jumps by Chi (minute 35)
Chi’s dad, Okie is an author (minute 37)
Wolcott Park (minute 39)
Ring the bell on The Vert Trainer for $20 (minute 43)
Use the promo code: Chi (minute 48)
Jumping mechanics (minute 50)
Chi's favorite teacher (minute 55)
3 Keys (Sponsored by New England Door & Security) on running JumpsByChi (minute 57)
PRs in High Jump, Triple Jump and Long Jump (minute 59)
The Fosbury Flop (minute 1.01)
INSTAGRAM REEL VIDEOS: Chi shooting and dunking (minute 1.03)
Hooplandia video by GoMedia (minute 1.06)
Upcoming events (minute 1.07)

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Creators and Guests

Host

Eric Feeney

After teaching for nearly a decade at his alma mater in Waterbury, in 2014, Eric Feeney began teaching at Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford. Shortly following, Sam Sohn, the father of one of his students, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He left behind four beautiful children and a loving wife, Nancy Wallace-Sohn. Eric saw first-hand the toll this took on the family as they navigated their way through this unthinkable tragedy. The following year, Rashad Collier Sr., another father of a student in Eric’s class, passed away in Hartford as a result of gun violence. Rashad left behind two fantastic children and a loving wife, Denise Villegas. The impact of these tragedies weighed on Eric and motivated him to build an organization that could provide assistance for similar situations. With that, Friends of Feeney was born. In 2019, Friends of Feeney Inc. became an official 501©(3) nonprofit organization, allowing more funds to be raised and expanding the range of services provided to children and families in need. Today, over a decade since Eric’s idea to build a community organization dedicated to supporting our friends in need, Friends of Feeney has burgeoned into a reputable and recognized organization capable of providing financial and resource support to numerous families and individuals across greater Hartford and beyond. Through this work, an incredible community of children and families has been recognized, who care for and appreciate each other’s kindness.

Producer

David Chmielewski

David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.

Editor

Stefania Sassano

Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.

What is Feeney Talks With Friends?

Eric Feeney talks with #friends! Eric is the founder of the nonprofit organization Friends of Feeney. Their mission is to help children and families who need assistance after heartbreak and tragedy. www.friendsoffeeney.com

All right, all right. Feeney talks
with friends.

Episode 143.

We got a great guest today.
How you doing? I'm doing well.

Thank you. Eric, are you.
Sure you to bay in the bay in the house?

I in. Pretty good. Pretty good
camping plan.

Enjoying the summer weather.

I'm really excited to talk with you.

This is episode 143.

This is Feeney talks with friends.

My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

Our mission is to help

children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

And I use this podcast.

Feeney talks with friends,

and I talk to a wonderful people
in the community that doing great things.

And you've been busy.

You've been hooping, working,
working on social media.

You're a content creator.

You work for The Hartford,
and you could jump through the roof.

What do you want to talk about? First she.

Okay. Wow.

Well, actually, what do you think about.

Okay, go back and listen to 142.

This is the elbow bump, kid.

Elbow bump, kid incorporated.

They help people with type one diabetes.

Great podcast. I'm very excited.

So go back and check them out.

Sam and I was a guest.

Great job.

And one for three is also very important.

Do you know what 143 stands for?

You ever hear
that could stand for something?

Words with one letter.

Know a word with four letters
and a word with three letters.

Okay, okay, I love you.

I love you so.

Very good.

Mr. Rogers did it okay. And,

Friends of Feeney was started
because Nancy

Sohn lost her husband,
Sam Sohn, 13 years ago now.

And I had Gabby Sohn in my fifth grade
class, and.

And Nancy would send that text
all the time to Sam,

and Sam would send it back.

That was their code saying, I love you.

So I'm thinking of Nancy and Sam.

Friends of Feeney.

Wouldn't be here without them.

And, thinking about Sam
all the time they have.

Nancy has four wonderful kids.
I had Gabby,

who just graduated college.

It's Braden
who just graduated high school.

And Emerson and CC are now in high school,
so they have twins.

I had twins. Wow.

So 143143.

You know, thinking time.

What do you want to talk about?
Definitely.

So I, I guess I'd love to start with,
I guess my, my full time job maybe.

Okay. I got there, I think,

I was at least I felt going

into going to college, I had absolutely
no clue, what I wanted to do.

And I feel like a lot of people
can relate to that.

I think this day, like these, these days.

And, I

graduated
from college with a degree in economics,

for no reason other than I was like,
cool economics or dealing with money.

I like money.

Let me try this.

And I got out and I wasn't really sure,
you know, what I wanted to do.

And I was working
at a restaurant, Briscoe,

for a couple of years at that point,
kind of just in the interim.

But at the same time,
I was also teaching myself how to code.

Because as long as I've known, I've liked
building things and solving problems.

So I ended up getting a lucky break,
kind of,

with an interview
and, landed myself at the Harvard,

where I've been for the last three years
in some change.

Software engineer at the Hartford.

Man. That's good stuff.

And what about Rico?

Rico? I mean, I love Rico,
I love the food, I love

I love working there, the environment.

It was an awesome kind of team.

That, you know, go. To.

Of course. Of course. Yeah.

You know. The guy

I worked with, his daughter.

Oh, there we go. He was.

Awesome. Yeah. No, he's great, he's great.
Everybody's there. Yep.

Everybody's
great there. Billy supposed to be a guest.

Oh, really? Got it in a month.

So we're getting a mom?

Yeah, but also The Hartford's amazing.

You know, your VP,
your vice president, Steve Dean.

He's a friend of Feeney.

Hartford. Wonderful.

Maybe I'll text him. You want
you want a promotion?

You want to raise your event?

Yeah.

To happen right now,
I wish, I wish I will complain.

All right, I teach third grade.

Explain to a third grader
what does a software engineer do?

Okay,

I software engineer can

do a lot of things,
but I guess most simply,

I would say

build kind of software
to make your life easier.

So any

anything on your phone,
anything that you'll visit on

the internet, is usually kind of handled
by a software engineer.

So I don't know if that's good enough
for a third grader, but.

Can you just get app?

I could. By myself.

I mean, maybe with a lot of time
and a lot of googling,

potentially
to make a pretty rudimentary app.

You bought. A website? Yeah, yeah.

Can you can do.

So today's Monday?

Yeah.

What did you do today at work
as a software engineer at the Hartford?

Okay.

So I work on,

insurance coding platform
specifically for small businesses.

And I'm working on something
called a defect, which is kind of

just something in an application
that's not working as intended.

And most of the day was trying

to do a lot of kind of triaging
or like, debugging.

What was going wrong to figure it out,
before trying to solve it.

See, I might actually have to go back
at the end of the day

and kind of after this and try and
because I didn't quite get the fix yet.

But I'm currently working on that, so.

Wow. Cool. So out of,

Anything else before we move on?

So I'm really excited to talk with you.

Yeah,
I've had anything else about the Hartford

or software engineering?

Thumbs up or thumbs down.

I would say I would say thumbs up.

It's, it's it's challenging
and it's it's it's rewarding

and it can be frustrating,
but thumbs up. Overall.

My nice,

listen, this is episode 143.

I've had millionaires, celebrities,

professional athletes.

I envy you the most.

No man. Ever.

We're going to get into why.

Do you know why?

I guess I like I can guess like.

I mean, the police chief,
the mayor, politicians, you name it.

Guys with millions on this podcast

doesn't do it for me.

What you do is absolutely amazing.

And I would give my left pinky
well to do what you can do.

What is that guy.

I think jumping.

Head. Yes.

How I and you.

I got an answer by watching your videos
practice and jumping the more you.

So we're here with jumps by chick,

jumps by she,
you know, as cheetah Bay and and I'm

a software engineer at the Hartford,
but this guy is jumps by chick.

He's on Instagram, 150,000 followers.

He's on TikTok, 290,000 followers.

He was just at hoop India.

He dunks with Jordan

Kel and and,

And a bunch of other. People.

Yeah, yeah.

This is amazing.

Yeah.

How did the journey start?

Can can I jump like you someday?

I'm 46 years old.

Do I have a chance to ever dunk?

Oh, was it too late?

Where you want me to start with?

With where I started
or you want me to start with.

Let's start with you. Okay.

Yeah, I,

I guess my,
my first exposure to jumping was,

like, was a fifth grade,
field day at Wolcott.

I think I did the high jump in the long
jump,

and I think I kind of liked it
and may have one high jump.

I remember I was beaten out in long jump,

and then kind of from there,
I have an older brother as well

who was really into basketball.

So he was always outside in our driveway
playing, and eventually I kind of

sort of got into that and I was trying
some dunks on like a low rim.

But I don't know, I always
I was really like the idea of dunking.

And I think I saw Nate Robinson
in the dunk contest

and I was like,
Holy cow, that's pretty cool.

He's five nine himself
and doing what he does.

And then,
yeah, I guess during all this time

I was also doing track and field,
long jump, triple jump, high jump.

And I really, really enjoyed that.

Just jumping was always my thing.

I have to stop. It was Mr. Glazier.

Did she run P?

Did she do the field day at Wolcott?

I think so that that's a that's a name.

It's, you know Mrs. Glazer. Absolutely.

So jumping out. Yeah.

All right.

So your older brother, you love jumping?

Yep. Continue. I'm sorry. No.

Yeah.

So I, I did track and field
at Eastern Connecticut as well.

And it was around that time that,

I was seeing other people
on social media, on Instagram, on YouTube.

We're having these, like, dunk sessions,
mainly in, like, Orlando, Florida.

It was just guys

who were professional dunkers
or semi-pro dunkers or amateur dunkers.

They're all come together and dunk.
And I was like, that's so cool.

It was so much
energy, was a great community.

So I ended up making my Instagram account
jumps by G just because I was like,

I like jumping and I want to try and,
you know, show off some of the skills.

I've, I've, kind of, achieved. And,

I'm just built from

there, from, from 2017 is
I think when I started.

Man jumps by G.

Now it's great.

I love the content that you're
putting out, most recently.

Well, let's let's start with a game then.

So jumps by G.

What was the events
we do a first last best worst.

Your first jumping event.

Your last jumping event.

Your best jumping event
and your worst jumping event.

You're jumping about
oh I know you just out.

Whoop. India. Yeah. With scale.

Yeah. White mamba. Yeah.

Let's take a minute.

Okay.

And respect the white mamba.

How is Brian. Scale brain interacting.

Super cool. Nice guy.

Very cool.

Unfortunately,
I didn't get to talk to him much outside

of, like, the photo, but he was very,
very well

welcoming and happy
to take a photo with me.

But, yeah, I saw him.

He was holding a clinic, for some kids,
and, he just definitely seemed very,

I don't know, obviously very knowledgeable
and had a great presence about him, so.

Yeah. Love. Yeah.

All right. First, next.

The then last first. No, no. Excuse me.

First last best worst.

Worst last best or worst.

So I think my first jumping exposure
to jumping was pretty much,

like ten years old,

at the field day.

Yeah. Well, I'll get,

my last is in, like, my most recent.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was actually,
I didn't do too much jumping a hoop land.

Yeah.

But then I guess just right before that
was, the dunk camp.

So I guess those were like my last.

It was. Oh,
in the one week and one weekend.

And then.

On dunk. Can't. Sure. Sure.

So dunk camp is a camp
that's been primarily

held in Utah,
just in, Salt Lake City area.

And it's run by Andy Nicholson,

who's actually 510, maybe 511,
I think 510.

And, he's 50.

Three.

And he's having a 5253.

And he's and he's still dunking.

Yeah. Oh my God. So.

So so you're saying there's a chance.

I'm saying there's a chance. Absolutely.

Oh, yeah.

Chills telling you what you want to hear.

But yeah, it's it's
it's it's a great time.

It's about,
it's about a week and it's kind of just,

a whole bunch of pro dunkers, pro
athletes,

as well as, you know, camp attendees
who come to learn from them.

And it's just a really fun weekend.

It ends with a dunk show
where all the pros kind of put on a show.

And then there's also, dunk contests

at varying, rim heights
at the end of the camp as well.

Cool dunk camp.

And that's been going on for how long.

Started in 2018 okay.

Yeah because I saw a video of 2019.

Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

That was the first year I won in Jordan.

See tying your shoes in Jordan?

Oh, no. You're weird. I'm nervous.

I was like, you're I'm.
I see that you up anyway.

Yeah, that was
that was not dunk camp. Yeah.

There was dunk camp.

I think it was 2022 or something. Him.

Awesome. Yeah.

Oh, speaking of homeland. Yeah.

My wife won the three on three last year.

Oh, wow.

Go to Nicole Feeney and her sister
Kristen Lombardo.

Wonderful.

They were the Golden Girls as a senior.

That's good. That's great. They won.

Shout out to my former guest
Thai Thai Tran one this year.

Oh, okay.

I, board of directors of friends of Fini.

Oh, awesome.

JC Hall of Famer Tai Tran won $1,000.

It was cash, bro. Oh, wow.

Shout out to near Sterling and J.

But Ty pretty much scored all the points.

Well, they were just along for the ride.

Yeah, they didn't want you in on the team
though.

Seems like he
they even ask me. You didn't even ask me.

He has their over me.

Come on.

No J I get Sterling I get Nair.

Come on, come on.

I'm kidding.

Now he's a baller, I bet.

No, you're five nine.
All right, so first we're getting off.

Todd I'm so excited.

First walk it last. Whoo! Gland.

Yeah!

Dunk camp your best now your best dunking
and your worst dunking.

Have you won a dunk contest?

Yeah, I've won a couple dunk contest
at the dunk camp.

So that was in 2019 and then 20, 20, 23.

Okay.

I think I sent you a video of me
winning, winning in 2019,

which I thought was a really,
really cool moment.

They've all been very, very, cool
that I'm excited right here.

Okay. Which one is that? You think,

I'm going
to be wearing a red shorts, okay?

And it's going to be me.

Yeah. So this one, this is your dunk.

Your winning dunk.
We're going to pull it up right here.

Oh it went from a standstill.

Yeah. In reverse.

Yeah.

It was kind of like
it was kind of like a, off 180

windmill off of her in a ball.

180 windmill off
invert at five nine to win the dunk.

You know, at camp, that was 2019 or 20.

Yeah. This is in 2019.

All right.

Best moment.

That was good.

Let me see.

So that bomb got

so off vert like.

Yeah. All right.
That was your best. Worst.

You have a worst case.

And I have so many questions.

Worst would probably be

I don't know,
I feel like, I feel like I have a lot

mainly mainly because of injuries.
I'd probably. Say.

Yeah. Yeah,
I went wrong or missing or. You got.

Yeah. Me up.

But yeah, I guess I guess, long jumping

my senior year of college,
I got, I got hurt, I think the last is.

And it ended my ended my collegiate career
pretty much because,

I didn't quite come back from it.

It was just like a hamstring pull.

But I also PR that day,
so it was also a good

it was,
it was a good ending, but it still was

unfortunate. So.

All right. That was your first,

first, last, best, worst jumping on, man.

So, 46.

Where would I start?

Like today, you motivate me.

I did a little bench. Oh, yeah.

And then I did the deep, the squat machine
that.

No, no, not the squatch leg.

Leg extension. Okay. Leg press. Yep.

So you sit and you just push up? Yep.

I mean, no weight on it
at all is 110 pounds.

Oh, then

I got it to 340.

So he's laughing at me. No, that.

I see I see a sarcastic smirk.

No, no, that's
that's like that's lightweight.

I think that that's one foot

as well. Excellent.

But I've noticed like any hold you, you
know, you you extend you get the bar down.

Yeah.

You light it in, you push it out. Sure.

Ceiling like in the lower back.

Should I be oh. Or back?

No. My butt be coming off the seat
a little bit.

Right. Maybe not.

I mean, I think I think if your lower back
is giving you issues, it may be

you may be overly rounding
a little bit in here.

I'm rounding. Yeah. Potentially.

How do I avoid the rounding?

And I'm not I'm not,
I haven't studied any,

really weight training too much, but,

potentially your feet could be too high
on the too on the on the, platform.

Okay.

Or maybe your core isn't quite activated

or as strong as it should be or needs
to be for the weight you're doing.

Tracking.

Those are just kind of
what comes to mind a lot.

I'm going to find out tomorrow, because
if I can't walk, my back is jacked up.

Yeah.

So some what are some good exercises

to, jumps by key now,

do you do the half mile to single leg hop?

Oh, I don't know if I've done it.

Single leg. Really?

You're talking about, like, a kneeling
jump, and then you land on your feet?

I'm not exactly sure.

All right, what about,

I saw it, and I asked half mile.

All right. What about the one?

Where you're sitting, okay.

And you just pop up?

Okay, that sounds like.

That sounds like a kneeling jump, right?

You kind of sit.

You're kneeling on the floor.

Yeah.
Is that you're popping up to your feet?

Yeah, yeah.

What's that all about there?

You're supposed to be able to do that
over 30.

Oh okay. Yeah
I think I've seen a trend on to.

Yeah about that.

Yeah I've done it.

I've done,
I've done it before. I've had it.

Yeah I can do that
one. Yeah. I'm getting there.

Yeah.

No I haven't tried it in a while,
but I believe. It, I believe it.

All right. What about,

What about the one where you.

Oh, you're elevated off something.

You drop down, bend, jump, you know.

What's that move?
Why is that a thing? Why is that?

But why would you drop gravity
having you down?

Yeah, but. Or is that.
Or is there a reason for that?

Well, I think I believe the reason
for the exercises

you want to kind of improve your ability
to brew, to produce force.

And so, yeah,
you can do that with just a regular jump.

But when you drop down from something,
it's called a,

drop jump or a depth jump. Yep.

You're having to overcome more.

You have to produce more force.

Yeah, yeah.

To get back off the ground. And that's
what kind of dropping off the box.

So it's more potent.

What about like, trial metrics
when you're like, when you're hopping

like left, you know, northwest.

Southeast like,

around a foot.

Okay.

And then like, even, like,

like off a curb or.

Okay, I'm kind of like, down
and then back up onto something.

Yeah.

I think as far as I know,

that's mainly just like,
kind of rate of rate of force development,

trying to produce as much force
as you can as quickly as possible.

Is. Most likely going.

To be the exercises benefit what is jumps
by key suggest to our listeners or Feeney

who's going to write these down because
we're going to go home and try these.

What are we doing here?

What what are the exercises?

Where should I start?

As a 46 year old?

Jumoke

washed up athlete
that just wants to touch the rim?

Yeah.

You should, you should start
by going to your primary care

physician and. No.

Now, I've got Joe.

He can jump, and he's dropping
comedic gems.

No, but I would say, I'd say number one.

I would say, make sure that you're healthy
and you can kind of.

Right.

You're not dealing with anything
that's going to hinder you or,

you know, have jumping hurt you more.

But the number one thing I would always
suggest is try and jump more.

Oh. So you can do that
whether it's, you know,

once a week, once every two weeks,
get into the, habit of jumping regularly.

The history of jumping step one.

Yeah. Like I saw that video,

like you were juggling, and someone was
like, hey, how'd you get better?

And you just do it more. You practice?

Yeah. Go practice jumping.

All right. Yep. Same is
same as just about everything.

You know,
you want to do the thing. Whether that's.

Yeah, two foot jumps, one foot jumps.

If you're trying to long jump or triple
jump, whatever it is.

And then yeah,
I think it as well in that video, I don't,

I don't know
if you're going to get specific

or kind of be more general,
but you do want to be, strong.

You want to increase your strength
relative to your bodyweight.

So you want to get stronger
and try and maintain the same weight,

or not at least balloon up,

your weight just for the sake of strength.

And then

you want to be able to express
that strength that you have

by being able to produce that force
and that strength fast.

So that's things like sprinting
and plyometrics.

They're going to help you with that.

I know my neighbor
shout out to my neighbor Brian.

Stephen knows them.

He sprints.

He's a couple years older than me,
and he goes to the park.

He's like,
not many people over 50 can sprint.

Oh, I don't I think it's like 7%
I 50 year olds can sprint.

That sounds too high to me,
honestly, right. Yeah.

Too high. Yeah.

So sprinting
you like that I would love. Yeah.

Sprinting definitely.

All right I'm going to start sprinting.

Yeah I think I saw something
that it's like

most people over
like 30 never sprint again. So I

think it's,

I think I can still sprint.

I believe that I believe
that you might want to.

Yeah. Just warm up.
I warm as always. Get warm.

Yeah. Okay.

Don't just go.

Check with my physician, then warm up,

practice jumping and then sprint. Yep.

All right. What else you got?

Come on, this is all you did.

And you can jump 11ft.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I've done
I've done a lot of things.

I've done.

I feel like
I've done literally everything.

But I feel like it boils down to that.

Do you want, like, specific exercises
I've done? Because I can just name.

You can see
you can look at anything in the gym and.

All right, let's. How about this.

Let's, let's explain to our listeners
with at elastic volume is okay.

Then you'll give me a list.

And then we had a question
a long ten minutes ago.

This is answering asked you
what can I do I know excuse me.

So we're back
on track. The elastic volume.

Can you explain to our listeners
what elastic volume I get?

I understand get flexible.

I understand that one.

But this is elastic volumes.

Got me intrigued. Sure, sure, sure.

Yeah.

So, Yeah, this is this is also
all information from, this guy

that I know kind of in the community
is starting condition community.

Daniel Bock.

So, yeah, he,

he suggests, he suggests I don't know
if I said jump science as well.

That is.

Or is it still jump science?

Anyways, he suggested elastic volume,
which is, which is essentially just,

kind of

contacts that aren't like, lower
for like foot contacts

that aren't necessarily
like super maximal.

They're not necessarily full effort.

So you can do them very often,
like things like sprinting,

kind of small hops
and like the smaller plyometrics.

So it's just the ability
to kind of just get contacts

on your feet,

for an extended period of time
or like overtime, kind of you.

That's elastic volume.

Yeah.

Getting flexible. That makes sense. Right.

You want to be able to do,
dynamic flexibility lunges, hip hinges.

You know.

And then for was to increase the deep
squat strength.

How much could use what.

When's the last time you squatted?

And what's your squat routine so.

Recently I. Haven't.

Are you putting up Saquon Barkley numbers?

And, No, I wish

I, I actually haven't squatted
very recently.

Or not, like maximally.

Intensely.

But my best squat

has been like 365 for three reps.

So I'd like to think my one rep max
is probably in the 405 area,

but I do deal with some knee stuff
in some quad stuff,

so I haven't been able to to Squire's
heavily as I'd like to.

And you're five nine
and how much do you weigh?

I'm about 181.

Yeah. Which is.

So two years. Ago,
I would have been. Yeah.

You know, for a couple of reps
for reps. Yeah.

That's impressive.

All right, so the deep squat.

Yeah.

You have squat I do air squats okay.

That counts right.

That's good.

Yeah I think my mom doesn't
get into it. No.

But like it's not. No it's wow.

No, it's, My mom my mom's very strong.

She's very healthy. So, it's not.

Nice to meet you, Eric.

You're not kidding.

Okay. Air squats. Yeah, yeah.

All right. I get my weight someday.

Yeah. No. Take it.

Take it at your own speed.

There was a minute, but I got in shape.

I was doing this call.

It was call either whip or melt.

I'm actually both of them
got me in pretty good shape.

And I swear I started missing layups
because I was not used to jumping so hot

as I'm used to just being like credit card
hops.

And my layups were here.

But then I actually jumped
and I was going so high.

Not used to

you know
still like only getting the rubber,

the rubber on the bottom of the backboard.

Yep. That's the extent of my hops.
And I could touch the net.

Come on you I want to grab the rim
one time.

Yeah.

Did you never dunk
when you were younger. Never.

Oh wow. The tennis ball. Wow.

You you're high school okay.

That's it.

Touch
the rim and just got the ball in. Yeah.

Tennis ball. Oh that doesn't really count.

Yeah. What is the Fulton Park.

They had a
it was like nine and a half okay.

And I don't like a ball there. Yeah.

Felt like a god.

It feels. Great. And I had a dunk
a ball hoop in front of my house.

That was about eight feet or 8.5ft.

Roll it out.

All the boys would come over, you know,
dunk off the rebounder each other.

Alley. Oops.

Not some you feel on top of the world.

Yeah.

Like I was playing pool
basketball yesterday

at my sister's house and like shooting
shooting and hearing a swish.

No better sound in the world.

Agree or disagree.

Okay.

Do you like been hearing up the ball.

The dude in that would have dunking.

Dunking was just a hard but no I mean
a great a great swishes excellent dunk.

Look at his dunk injury I got.

Oh injury.

It's gonna look good
that I'll be dunked in the pool.

That's it. Did
it caught my fingernail in the net.

And that was just yesterday.
That was yesterday.

I'm a beast. Yeah. In spirit of you. This.

I mean, listen, there's a difference

between playing hurt and playing injured.

Listen, injuries are temporary, you know,

pool, basketball championships
against my nephews lasts forever.

Forever.

Oh, it's hurts so bad. Look at that.

Wearing it like a badge of honor.

I dunked on my nephew Cooper, I love it.

He's 14. Awesome.

And you get.

You didn't get your legs, face.

And I dunked them in the pool and that.

But, you know, hey comes with a price.

I'm willing to pay this. All the. Greats
need. Yes.

Finger left, pinky gone. If I could dunk.

I'll wiggle nine fingers,
you know, to be able to dunk.

Is that outrageous?
Have you. Ever. No. That's.

I think that's a

not that exact one.

But I think it's a
I think it's a fair trade off.

It's fair trade off.

Yeah.

Who needs a pinky finger
when you're Yamin. Yep.

Come on. Chee.

Let's do this. Jimmy dunking.
Yeah, please.

Should check out.
You should check out the dunk camp.

Is it a training video
or is it just, camp?

Sounds like all the boys go in.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I watched that video.

Yeah. Is it?

Oh. It's okay.

No, I'm just saying
it's I'm just saying it's a it's

it's a, it's it's like a camp
and there's ranges of ages.

Right.

You wouldn't
you want to be the youngest one obviously.

But you wouldn't be the oldest one.

So yeah, I think it's really cool.

And that's at Utah Alternate Air.

Oh, so you guys
were going to be highlighted.

But then there's campers like me
that go to improve their jump.

And then you put on the show.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Exactly.

I me personally, personally
I wasn't quite a celebrity dunker as.

But in a way yeah. Yeah.

But yeah
there's, there's, there's the pros

and there's the kind of campers
attendees I'm a go to learn.

And so I worked for one camp and next week
I'm going to be at Kingswood Oxford.

Okay.

Can you come by with some people
and dunk for the kids?

Are you available?

Oh, next week you got seven to the 11th.

You know, it camps from like 9 to 3.

Okay, let's take off some time on. Where I

don't for the media and get, pumped up.

You could we could advertise jumps by key.

Tuesday is my birthday.

I try and take that day off I love that.

That's a thing I try to,
I try to dunk every day on my birthday.

Hit a new dunk. So maybe I get two.

Does that two days. Don't do that JK.

Oh comes up to like 55 years old
now still.

Wow. Shout out to Dave.
That's awesome. Awesome birthday.

That's a great move.
It's it's it gets no better feeling. Yeah.

Well listen if I could dunk
I would dunk every day.

You could you could take it
to an eight foot hoop a nine foot hoop.

It's I, I think it's
all the same genuinely not all the same.

But I think,
I think some of the feeling is, oh is I.

Even have a pool. Yes.

Yeah. Exactly
that. Like a god I know Kobe.

Yeah Kobe caught it off the rim. Yep.

All right. So

two for one.

Yeah.

Come by if you can dunk for the kids.

Two for one.

Oh, yeah. One day you are speaking.

I work, I play basketball for 16 years
at the JC over 30 men's league.

And we had a sponsor once.

It was the last breed
you were dunking in a Los breed?

T yeah, yeah, dudes can jump too.

Yeah, yeah.

What's your connection with them?

Well, they went to Conard and Josh.

Yeah.

I didn't know them at that time, though.

I think they might have actually graduated
just a year before me.

Or maybe I was a freshman
when they were seniors.

But I think, again, like, I was
this was around 2016, 2017.

I was seeing,

mainly like ants and,

jumping on vending machines
and doing these crazy dunks.

And I was like, Holy cow.

Again, like, I'd love to,
you know, try and try and do that.

So, so actually originally I have,
I have my old Instagram account

or my personal Instagram account
where I started posting jump videos

and dunk videos, but I liked it so much
I was like, I just want to do this.

So I made another account and the last
was a big part of that because, oh cool.

So all the things that were doing. Yeah,

no, that's great. And

Oh, I want to thank you for being here,
your good friend.

Number one, I want to shout out
we did a birdhouse for charity.

We raised

$10,300 for birds of charity. One.

Is it met by the travelers?

And Webster Bank?

They match every donation with 15%. So.

So I want to thank you for
being so generous. You made that happen.

So you were with some of the people
that donated to that.

Thank you for your generosity.

Thank you for taking the time to be here.

And hopefully you can teach me
how to dunk.

Yeah, maybe I'll give you the 10,000
my own money.

Yeah.

And my left pinky to be able to.

And then we have a common friend
Stephen Aspinall.

Yep. Great guy.

He definitely. Definitely.

With some help
grew up across the street from my house.

If you're interested,
he is episode 122 Stephen Aspinall.

Good episode.

Our motto is be a good friend.

Hold the door, pick up trash,
give compliments and be charitable.

All right.
I want to give you this. Be a good friend.

Thank you so. Much.

What make Stephen a good friend?

Oh. No.

He, I would say he's he's

he's easy to talk to you, number one.

I feel like we've known each other
for for so long, and it's very,

we have a we have a pretty close

relationship.

What specifically makes him
a good friend is just.

Yeah, I think I think that we can
talk about just about anything,

and, of course, laugh.

And now, you know, it's better in soccer.

You or him?

Can I say me?
You can say whoever you want.

That's a complete lie. But I want to see.

I want to see what he has
to say about that.

But if you're listening, Steve,
what minute are we?

Dave? 33.

Where I'm at minute 34.

Stephen, he's
calling you out on your soccer ability.

Stephen. Coaches travel soccer.

You know
Stephen to come from a soccer family.

Yeah. Stephen is Peruvian.

Stephen love soccer.

Yeah. She is here on record
saying that he's better than him.

Way better. This is great.

Not a better coach, but a better player.

And who's better in basketball?

You are Stephen.

Me because. We may have video.

Yeah. Otherwise.

Or proves this theory.

Stephen I'm sorry. We call this

putting someone on blast. Yep.

We're going to flame Stephen right now.

So you do a lot of videos.

Oh, very cool
that you film a lot of walk at park.

Shout out to park.

This is gee, if you look closely,
I almost block it

Stephen of of vert approach and boom,

slow mo here.

Stephen I can't wait.

I don't like this.

We're gonna watch this at this time.

Ben's going to go right here.

Stephen,
do you think it's net midway up net?

He's almost touching the hoop. Yeah.

And it really honestly surprised me.

This was this was also several years
back. I'd love to.

I'd love to do it again.

If he's.

We're to cut a video.
I want to get dunked. Yeah.

I would have blocked or shot.

I'm like right there. Would've been close.

Yeah. Right. Stephen.

Oh man.

That's great Stephen.

Keep trying, but keep trying.

How? Maybe we play horse.

One day I'll beat you guys.

That horse? Yep.

Like, I bet you're a shooting.

I'm a shooter. Oh, no.

Definitely not a dunker.

We we already established that.

Now we'll see.

Not so, Stephen, shout out to Stephen.

Episode 2122.

Come again.

We're here for episode 143.

What jumps with G.

Just amazing content. Where's the.

Where do you take the time?
Where's the motivation?

The inspiration to start jumps with G.

So yeah, I think it was just
I wanted a place

where I could just share
specifically just jumping stuff.

And I want it to be I don't want to
necessarily focus on dunking.

So I could have done dunks by G,
but I did jumps by G, which is

I want to kind of leave myself open.

I could have done whatever either way. But

Well, that's important
because you also do the triple jump,

which is an amazing sport.

One get into that.

Yeah, but and then the high jump and how
long jump and longer jumps by cheap.

Yeah. Everything.

And now I'm trying to do some backflips
and stuff like that.

So I'll talk about that show that video.

Yeah. But

jumps by G.

Yeah. Yeah.

I kind of lost my,

The content and stuff and.

Oh yeah.

I don't know if this is related,
but, like, my my,

I like to think that I enjoy making videos

or trying to kind of make stories
or make things that look cool.

Because my mom is, my mom is an artist.

She's a professor.

Central doing like, 3D design.

And my dad's an author
and a professor as well, and a novelist.

So I'd like to think I kind of, in a way,
I'm blending a little bit of storytelling

and a little bit of visual
art into, into these videos.

Sometimes.

So. Yeah.

And I just, I just enjoy it again.

I feel like it's kind of problem

solving in building
and constructing a video that I.

Yeah, enjoy.

Do what you love and, you know,
put out content and put out some work.

I love it. Yeah. That's great.

So mom's at central.

Where's dad?

So he was most recently at UMass Amherst.

Okay.

So he'll usually do, like,
kind of one year contracts.

He likes to travel and have his free time.

He's also, an author,
so he's always writing,

and he wants time for that as well.

But yeah, he's been he's
been at Trinity Brown, UMass Amherst,

Saint Lawrence University
and I think Kent in New York.

Get my daughter got a scholarship
to Saint Lawrence.

Oh, okay. Is it all. Girls?

No, I don't believe so.

I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

I don't think it is.

Actually, it's that's another school.

Oh, wow. What subject?

English.

African literature.

And mom. Subject.

Three design ceramics. Oh. That's right.

Yeah, yeah.

And what are some novels
that dad has read?

So his first one, he's also nonfiction.

Fiction.

So his name.

His name is. Okay. Okay, okay.

Okay.

Yeah, it's spelled okay. UI.

Oh, your UI. Yeah.

So, yeah, he's written, I think his first
novel is called Arrows of Rain.

And then his second one,

Foreign Gods, Inc.,
or Foreign Gods Incorporated.

He has a memoir,

never looking American in the eye.

And I think he's
working on his most recent one.

We're trying to find a,

agent or kind of navigate

the, publishing kind of, space right now.

Yeah.

And you got some legacy there. Yeah.

Tough shoes to fill.
That's awesome. I love it.

That's cool.

And how many brothers and sisters?

I have, one brother and one sister.

Both older.

Oh, you're a baby. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, baby.

Maybe that's why you jump so much.

You're like, hey, I got a jump.

Look at me. I'm jumping

somebody, you know, hey, look at me.

Because I just saw a clip
that's like, summer starts to.

Hey, mom, look at me season.
And you know what?

The kids wants to do a flip or, you know,
jump in the pool or do a cartwheel.

Hey, show me.

So you just started jumping
out of the gym?

Yeah, at a young age.

Hey, look at me.

Wow. Interesting.

Great to learn more about you.

Yeah, I think it's amazing.

Again, just want to dunk.

And what

what makes you always go to walk park?

It's like, just right down the road again.

I'm just right behind
kind of Corbin's corner.

So it's kind of, I don't know, I don't
actually know what that street is, but

what the entrance
that's that's closest to the basketball

court is just right down the road from me.

So I could walk there, but.

I don't know.

I don't know if it's like Elm Field.

Don't.

No. Elm fields, the hill
that's near walk at school. Oh.

So I'm way off on that actually.

Actually it does it continue.

It might continue
like on the other side of walk it then

I just me yeah.

I'm just throwing stuff out
I don't know. Yeah. You're tracking.

You're getting close.

What's my guy's name?

I know who lives right there to
his backyard is the pickleball courts.

Oh, God. That
street. Right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

My guy from Hot Basil.

Oh. Okay. Shoot.

I don't know the street, but, So.

Yeah. Waukee Park. Yeah.

Number one. Ty my guy.

Ty. You have you never met him? Ty.

You have to admit
I'm not sure the basketball circle,

but he says he's the all time
leading scorer.

Now walk it. Park.

Oh, wow.

How many bullets have you gotten that
walk it.

Do you, second in scoring at Walker Park?

If I've got to be,
I've got to be top ten. Okay.

Your time that I agree.

Maybe most dunks.

I think I think maybe maybe number one
most dunks. Yeah.

All right I'll do that
I'll take that for sure.

But I have my welcome
to West Hartford moment.

So I moved in 16 years ago.

Sunday night used to be like legit run.

Yeah.

At Walker Park
16 years ago under the lights.

A lot of stress, a lot of pressure.

And it's like,
you got to call winners and wait right?

And then you finally get on.

And no one picked me,
you know, tall, doofy kid, older,

and then played a

couple games
and then like everyone, no one passes.

So you got to rebound.

And I've been rebounding.

I got the technique
like I learned from Dennis Rodman.

You know the angles, I a bump,
I know how to get the rebound.

A lot of rebounds.

Then I go to leave.

Some guy goes hey,

unk, I think you call me Unk or Grandpa.

I hope it wasn't grandpa,
but I overheard unk.

Unk, you want to run me?

I'm like, oh, it was like a, My moment.

Yeah, I like he asked me of all people.

So I played again, you know,
and it was like, all right, felt,

you know, it was confirming,
not revealing,

but felt good to get recognized in it.

A little kudos, little shout out unk.

You know,
they call me the custodian, right.

Cleaning up garbage. Yep.

I'm a Windex, man. I clean the glass

and I like to play who I love it.

So I've been playing for 16 years
at the over 30 men's league.

I have three championships. Wow.

Most recently won at the Winter 2023.

Now, the following season
I went oh and 14.

So when you say best worst.

Yeah that's I went from hero to zero.

Well but walk it park.

That was my walk at Park Story

and I live across the street actually,
you know where I live. Yep.

And you hear the dinking and dunking.

How's your pickleball game?
Do you ever play pickleball?

Yeah, I picked up a lot of pickleball.

I think last year, maybe two years ago.

I like it.

I, I'm a huge fan of table tennis, so
I like to call pickleball medium tennis.

And then tennis is tennis.

Yeah.

So nice that, ping pong,
if you want to go.

I would love it.

I would love it. Used to have a table,
and then my parents got rid of it.

And girls club champ.

Oh. Well, great. Of Waterbury.

Okay, I a self-proclaimed, but I was
councilor there, so I beat the kids. Yep.

Or I was the physical director.

And they had a teen center.
So I would go down there.

Oh okay.

And I'm undefeated at my in-laws house.

Okay.
I beat my father in law all my nephews.

Yeah, my brother in law
undefeated Christmas and Thanksgiving. So.

All right I go for me.

Honestly sounds like a challenge
I'd love I'd love to play.

All right. Cool.

No walk.

You park you some really cool videos.

Obviously dunked on
Steven at the Waukee park.

You did something cool where you put the.

You put a bell?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's kid. Hit it.

You gave him 20 bucks. Yeah.

And you shelled out like 200 bucks.

Yeah. What made you do that?
Why did you do that one?

That was pretty funny.

After a while, you're like, I don't have
any more cash, but I'll cash app.

You are Venmo you. Yeah.

And I was like,
wow, you're still giving out cash?

Where you why'd you said it at 11?

Did you think not a lot of
people would get it?

Because I felt like the success
rate was really good that day.

Yeah, yeah.

I want to talk about that video or.

Yeah. So,

It's, it's a it's a training tool
that I really enjoy.

It's called the Vert trainer.

And I don't know, I love
I love watching people jump.

I love watching people, like,
get excited about jumping.

And I love making videos.

And I've seen videos similar, like where

if you can achieve this, like,
I'll give you this.

If you could hang on the bar, dude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So yeah, I think I think I slightly
miscalculated the talent.

At at the park that. Day work everyone.

Yeah.

And I think I originally had it
at ten six.

And then there were a couple people
that I allowed to try

and jumping in at 11ft
for an additional $20.

But yeah.

And it's also it's also a product
I'm kind of affiliated with.

So I thought of it as like
a little bit of an investment. Right?

I could spend some money

and then if people
if the video got enough traction, right,

getting enough eyes on the product
and they bought it, I think it's a.

Somewhat what piece of equipment are we
are we talking about?

What is it? Is this the big pole?

Yep. Different.

You know,
so it's, it's called the vert trainer.

It's kind of like a newer, it's, it's
a newer product, and it's actually made

by the same guy who founded the dunk camp.

And supposed to be better.

I don't know if you're familiar
with, like, a verb tech,

which is like
the traditional kind of horizontal tabs.

You jump up and you swipe. Yeah.

Yeah.

How is that different with this?

It has, like, piano keys like that.

Yeah. They have,
they have like, vertically hanging tab.

So they reset themselves. Right.

So when you do the normal vertex
you have to hit it.

And then you have to use like the stick
to, to push them to the side. And.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

So so that's one thing.

Number two is that it's a lot lighter.

It's like well I don't know if you've ever
dealt with a vertex, but it's 50 pounds.

You can't, you can't
you can't carry it around really with you.

But with this vert trainer
is like a person who just likes to jump.

Yeah. I just carry in a bag.

It's like 7 pounds, super light.

And then there's a bell,
which I think is the funnest part.

You got it in your car?

I do, yeah.

No, I keep it in, like, I got. Yeah.

We can.
We didn't want to embarrass myself.

Yeah. Seven feet.

Being six three feet high.

Oh, look,
he touched eight feet. Congratulations.

I'm sure you could. Yeah,
I can imagine you get a touch.

Well, a lot of people.

A lot of people, incorrectly think that,
you know, their height dictates

kind of how high they can touch,
but it's really.

You're standing reach,
so you're standing flat footed,

and you reach up with your hand. Yeah.

That's going to be I have a.

Long neck and a big head
that doesn't help me jump.

No, no,
but it helps my height. Yeah, yeah.

But if you. Have buddies joke,
they're like, you're all next, Feeney.

Yeah, I,
I think it's a normally proportioned neck.

Honestly, I.

Don't know giraffe neck, but,
it's like someone was like.

You look like a shout out to my buddy
Brian Gilbert.

He says, Feeney,
you look like an orange on a toothpick.

I'll let you know.

Friends, you my best man in my wedding.

But, you know, it's like you got
a big head, you know, a long, skinny neck.

What do you think?

Listeners, subscribers, how's the neck?

Head ratio?

But I did see that, too.

The size of your head

can hinder or help your jumping.

True or false.

Oh, because Jordan LeBron they have, like,

considerably comparable smaller cranium.

It's interesting. You ever hear any.

I don't think I've heard that.

But I guess I do see some fruity.

Yeah. Or

I don't know.

That's my excuse.
I've been telling myself that for years.

Like it's not your fault.

You know, you just got a big dome.

They might have some surgery for that

where you can kind of somehow decrease
the size of your head.

These guys, they have implants. Yeah.

And a cranium to doctor. Yeah, exactly.

I like you. Yeah.

And I'll give up my left finger
just to dunk. And also.

Yeah, that'll that'll be a little less
weight that you have to take into the air.

And it'll be all worth it. Yep.

I bang on and swimming on the who.

Yeah. Shaun camp ugly ugly a point that

All right, so we're back to the machine.

Yeah.
Let maybe we'll dunk. We'll pull that out.

But I don't embarrass myself.

But someday, maybe not today.

Yeah, we'll do whatever.

So you you kind of selling it
or you're advertising for it or.

How does that work? Are you. Yeah.

I, it's like, it's like it's
just an affiliate kind of thing.

So I have a code
that will get you 10% off.

And then what's the code share?

What code key do you guys want to eat?

Yep. Code cheeky.

If you want to, you know, improve
your jump, practice jumping the website.

It's on it's.

Trainer dot. Com.

It's at the dunk camp.com.

So she has the code.
We'll get you jumping.

Ring the bell.
He'll give you 20 bucks. Yeah.

Oh that's awesome.

Yeah.

No, no that's that was great.

Dunking on Stephen.

Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah.

So when you hit the whole thing,
it would all move.

Yeah. Big heavy ones. Yeah, yeah.

Yours is just.

But then you kind of know, like
hey I missed this one, but that one's so

close.

So then on my next jump,
do you work your way up or down based on.

Yeah.

So so I guess I guess a big part.

You're talking about the vert
trainer. The.

Yeah, a big part of the way
it's supposed to work is,

number one, you're tracking, right?

When you when you can track something,
you can improve it.

And you see that in a lot of things. Yep.

But the big thing with
this is you're trying to get like,

max effort jumps,
which is another great way to obviously

train to jump
higher is max maximal effort jumps.

So yeah you want to

you would ideally do like the graduation
from like the lowest tab.

You'd hit that go up go up go up.

And you'd want to have the bell set
at something that's just outside of your,

kind of Max. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Some just outside of your reach.

And then you're going for that
however many number of times,

that you can because that kind of,

kind of stimulus.

Yeah, it's going to really stimulate you.

And then boom, you get the sound
of the bell if you can hit it. So.

So you like that
sound of the swish to if dunk.

Yeah.

The swish and ring and yeah.

At camp we had a rock wall.
And if you could ring the bell

that was like yeah.

You know so ringing the bell

say like a golf coach can watch
someone do a golf swing.

And find like a very mechanical error
that sticks out to improve

or give a suggestion.

Can you do that for someone
jumping technique.

Like if I were to jump you're like
whoa whoa whoa.

You're leaning too much to the front.

You're pushing off too much with heels,
less toe like, can you give a suggestion?

And based on watching someone jump?

I definitely could.

I don't think I'm a great coach,
and I'm not, I'm

not too great at,
like, breaking things down, I feel like.

But like, like, I'll tend to, like,
I can see something and I'll see maybe,

like, three different things
and I won't know how to.

I might bunch them all into one
and becomes a little confusing.

I'm not very brief with my stuff,
but I definitely could try.

Because I did notice something.

Swinging arms is key.
Yeah, that's actually exactly.

I was going to say
a lot of people under utilize.

Yeah.

Their arms.

I you want to be violent with your arms.

At least I try to be violent with my arms.

At the arms.

Yeah.

Like it
almost where you're, like, punching up.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Like how?

Like violent is. Can be as hard
as you could possibly do it.

You should punch. Up.

Yep. I've, I've actually tried
to demonstrate to some people like,

I can swing my arms hard enough where I'm

essentially
almost like leaving the ground.

Or you can see, like there's a big shift
without even bending it.

Yeah. I'm not doing anything with my feet.

Your arm swing can get you off the ground
a little bit.

Yeah. Wow. Okay, okay.

And then how much

hinge of

the hit and how much core strength
do you think?

I mean, again, watch a lot of videos.

You know where here would see the dude's
chiseled, chiseled.

You know, I

you have about a 18 pack
or like a six pack or whatever.

You know, you're just chiseled six guys.

But ahead.

All right.

So how much is core and abs and the hit,

Jump it.

That's a good question.

I, I don't feel like I have super,
actually, I, I,

I think I have a decently strong core.

I would say it's definitely important.

And then the hips,

I would say like,
as long as they're not like,

impinged, they're not, there's no

blockage of, like, motion.

You should be good.

But a lot of people will have different
techniques.

Like, I know I have kind of like

a different jumping technique than most
people might, in that, descend lower.

And I'm very quad focused.

I'm quad dominant
as opposed to hip dominant.

So I'll do less of a hip hinge
and I'll bend more at my knees and I'll

potentially get like a little deeper.

But I would just say play around with it
and see how important like the hips

or to my.

Jump ever was.

Like a run left foot only,

like that's my dominant calf leg.

I've never really been a really good
vert jumper, you know.

Do you know why that would be? Your,

practice strength.

So here's.

Is it this too big of a head?

The lack of core strength,
the age, lack of athleticism?

No. I'm kidding, I'm not kidding.
It hurts.

So it's up loud.

But I still have all ten of my fingers.

You know, I got that going for me.

Yeah, I don't know,
I would say I would say

everybody has their own kind of solution
or their own method of jumping.

But you're just saying.

You're saying,

why can I jump better off one foot
than you can just from a standstill?

Shouldn't you get more power
off of two than one? Why?

Always when I did dunk that tennis ball.

Yeah, I needed a running start.

Angled? Yeah, from the left side.

You know, everything I got right hand.

Sure.

And I was like a calf jumper.

I'm a tall walker, too,
so I walk on my toes, you know?

So I got nice calves.

Do people think I could jump? Yeah.

It's embarrassing.

And then I can't,

That's a that's a good question.

I think.

I think it definitely does kind of
come down to a little bit of history.

And then I think everybody has like

different ideas, like the physiology

that might make one, style

of jumping more attractive than the other.

And yeah, it's just like,
I think it's just like the,

the structure of,
like, your tendons as well can,

can, benefit one style of jumping
better than the other.

And then, yes, strength may play a part.

Part as well.

I've been swimming laps a sec.

Shout out to the JC,
and I've been, working out a little more.

So I'm going to be all about strength.

I'm going to start implementing the core.

I'm going to try to do my leg
press different now.

Yeah,
the back was definitely around it. Yeah.

And a butt was coming off the seat
a little bit.

Yeah. Don't want it hurt myself.

And I

know you went to Kinard or the Garner did
I want to shout out Connor.

Yeah. And

Oh yeah.

Counter you know Riley Fox.

Yeah.

Yeah I running
score 2000 points Riley Fox.

Awesome.

And I know you want to rep Connor.

Awesome. Yeah, he's a fox.
Thanks for coming as well. You.

Thank you so much. JC.

This is cool.

JC look at the back. Friends of Feeney.
Yeah.

Maybe someday catch a dunk in this for me.

Oh, also, I'll never be able to. Yeah.

No we're going to
we're going to get you there.

So that's for you. Thank you so much.

Speaking of Connor Walker Co,
I've been a teacher for 21 years.

Do you have a favorite teacher?

Whoa.

I guess the one that comes to mind.

She may still be at Conard.

Miss Zango, I think she's now Miss Bryant.

Miss Mrs. Brian.

But she was she was definitely fun.

She put up with,
my shenanigans to an extent.

And it was
just, was a fun, fun English class.

This is Brian.

I think I've heard
because my daughters are there now.

Cool. Favorite teacher. Mrs.

Brown will hopefully share this with her
if she's still around the corner.

I got the Kinard gear.

You got the JC gear? Yeah.

Oh, I even been so busy talking.

We haven't even shout it out. Sponsors.

So we're here at Maximum Beverage.

Yeah.

I want to thank Maximum Beverage Day
from Direct Line Media.

Dave's in the building.

The the man the myth himself.

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Keating agency insurance
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They were previously West Hartford lock.

They're big time now.

They're north east door in security.

Well, we just had their

20 2025 Invitational at Tumble Brook.

They for three years in a row,
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with Feeney as the proceeds from the
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I want to thank northeast door
and security.

I'm going to go back and cut up the videos
of all the times I say three

and then three.

Key sponsored by West Hartford Lock.

But today the three keys are going
to be sponsored by Northeast Security.

Yeah. What are three keys?

Most important,
three keys to be able to jump.

Yeah,

I have
I won't repeat myself too much, but,

I would I would get stronger.

Stronger.

You have to get stronger and,

be lean more or less or stay.

Stay more or less lean.

Number two.

I would, I would play with your jump technique, try a bunch of different things,

and just get jump reps in.

And then number three, maybe
a little cliche, but just don't stop.

Just keep on going and may take years,
but enjoy the enjoy the journey.

Cheers.

Don't stop when they take 46 years. Yeah.

Listen, we're going to come back
and review this

a year from now, maybe six months.

I'm going to at least be touching the rim.
Yeah.

You ever hear knees over toes?

Yep, yep. And Patrick. You like that guy?

Do you like his stuff?

It's it's it's interesting.

I know it's definitely polarizing.

I don't really subscribe to it
much, but, I know,

I know, he's helped a lot of people.

I actually met him in 2019.

Really? But, Yeah,
he had a dunking thing. Or jumping.

Yeah. He was at his at the 2019 dunk camp.

Yeah. He went from never dunking.

He didn't dunk till he was 40.

Yeah. Yeah.
He had multiple knee surgeries. Yep.

So I've been listening to that guy too.

Yeah I think he's great.

The deep squat and the deep lunge. Yeah.

You don't.

He's over toes lunge and those lunge.

What about the weight.

And the tibia flexes

when you put like

a kettlebell on your foot, on your toes
and kind of curl up your feet.

Oh, okay. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like that one.

It's okay.

It hurts me. I mean, it doesn't it?

It's stressful, but yeah,
I mean, I've, I've, I've done it before.

It's not something I do frequently though.

Wow. So we're what she jumps with.

She five nine dunking extraordinaire.

You have it.

ESPN video.

Your first dunk was at 17.

Yep. You could jump 42in.

You did track and field at eastern.

We haven't even gotten into that long
jump.

Triple jump and the high jump.

Like what's your records.

What are your peers on those.

I'm going to start by saying
I'm not impressed with them

I wish I had done better. It's

but high jump is six two

and I think three quarters, I was
I want to be a 66 at least jumper.

Triple jump was 44ft, ten inches.

The hardest event I think I've ever done.

And then long jump 23ft, six inches,

which I hit my senior year, which was was

good way to end,

with the nice PR.

So what's the triple jump like?

Where who's idea?

I mean, obviously the Greek Olympic thing,
but why do you think the

triple jump is important?

Why three times? Why not two?

Why not five? Yeah. Why three?

And it's a good question.

You don't hit the dirt
until like obviously that.

Yeah. The last time but.

You know
are there records for that first jump.

Do they ever measure that first jump.

And is there a record for like
who holds the record for the second jump.

Or is it just total.

It's just total I think people have done
like analyzes on like.

Look into it in depth that.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. For data. Collection.

Yeah. Wow.

But nothing official is of course
it's crazy.

It's it's very intense.

It's challenging.
Yeah. You never want to jump.

Although actually
funny story of Stephen was here.

I did try pole vault.
I think my senior year.

I don't know why I was

trying it,
but Stephen also did pole vault.

Yeah, at Conrad.

And, I think I was having a bad day.

And I'm not a violent person,

but, Stephen, that day was really,
really getting on my nerves.

And I think I went for,
like, a practice jump and I messed it

up, and I came back into the line,
and I feel like he was kind of berating me

or doing something.

So I actually punched him in the stomach
pretty hard.

So that's that's a story.

But I. Think I've been good friends.

I think.

I think he deserved it. Good.

But I usually.

I just sort of go.

Don't hit people anymore.

Never said anything again. Yeah.

We don't condone this. No.

Absolutely not. Podcast. No. However

hilarious,

high school stuff. Yeah, yeah.

Wow. Cool.

I wouldn't have done it
if he wasn't my friend.

I wouldn't punched him. So true.

Yeah, it's like a buddy punch.
Yeah. Povo things.

Yeah. You got to go into what,
a mindset like. Yeah.

They're very challenging.
How about the guy?

Do you know the story of the,
the high jump?

I forgot that
the backward move was created by a guy.

Oh, you know that guy's name?

Everyone used to jump it.

Regular jump.

Yeah.

And this guy, he like.

Oh, let me try this way.

And it was known, like,
almost like it was almost considered

cheating for a little bit. Yeah.

Because he created this new technique to
to to complete this task at a better rate.

Yeah. Yeah.

I think it's Dick Fosbury. Yes.

The Fosbury method. Yeah, yeah.

Fosbury flop the. Falls very flat.

Yeah. There you go G. Yes.

Yeah. The floors very flat.

So they said when Steph Curry started
shooting three pointers

farther and farther away
that was his flaws.

Very flat because he brought something
new to the game.

Yeah that for years never was there.

The very flat. Yep. My man he got it

earlier.

You want to share about

jumping your websites?

I think we missed anything
where some videos that we want to share.

Do you have a favorite
that I haven't shared?

Can I see the ones I sent you?

Yeah, please.

We'll send a couple videos,
and then we're going to wrap it up.

Oh. Oh, okay.

Maybe,

I, I like editing stuff,
so I have, like, this one and this one,

which I kind of like in the style of,
like, the NBA two K video game.

What is it here?

Yeah. It's like this one.

Yeah. That one. We'll show these two.
Yeah.

I want to show this video here
is that walk you park.

Yeah, yeah.
How do you show. Starting to shoot beta.

No I looked at
this. Yeah. When they, there.

So I just

got the idea to kind of blend, blend,
real life with.

With what,
like a video game graphic would be like.

And that was, that is true.

And want to release it at the right point
on the video game? Yeah.

They still do it
like that. The shoe like that.

I'm not sure.
I haven't played video games in a while.

How did you do that
graphic? Do you, Canva?

I use, I use DaVinci resolve.

Just a video editor, you know,

DaVinci resolve fusion.

Pay for it.

It's free.

I could have done this all free,
but I do have the full version as well.

All right, let's try this one now.

I'll follow you later, but I promise you.

What's on the star on you alarm. Oh, wait.
Who's that? That's not you.

Is that you?

Yeah, yeah, that's way
just a while ago with no, no facial hair.

So this is like the
the vertical or whatever.

It only makes sense.

And then you're calculating your vertical
as you go up.

So I don't know, I thought that was
I thought that was cool.

I didn't really see anybody.
Nine inches vert.

That was just.

NBA two inspired. Rim is not.

That's funny.

Yeah. We'll get those up there.

That's amazing. Yeah.

So you got the content

content creator.

Yeah. Ideas.

What if we pop those right there. Boom

a lot of hoop y a lot of jumping.

You know Nate Robinson it's great.

I wish I could talk to you I, I would,
I would talk to you all day about this.

I'm so intrigued.

Obviously, again, I mentioned it,
something I've always wanted to do.

I envy you.

You're going to teach me, though?

Yeah. We can work on this. Deep breathing.

Oh, wow. Like a meditation? Yeah.

I would say it's pretty.

I would say it's.

You can. You can do without it.

But I think they can take you to the next

level
if you if you, if you do incorporate it.

All right.

And then.

Oh, I usually ask for people for dinner,

but I think I notice that you said
you had Floyd.

Floyd Mayweather,

Carl Lewis and The Undertaker.

But you don't remember
saying I don't remember.

That was on an eastern your athlete page.

Yeah, yeah.

So are you wrestling guy?

I am not
I really don't know why I would say that.

Well, I'll have to pull that.

Do you have any upcoming events?

Nope.

I'll be a walk
it park at some at some point.

I'm just jumping around though.

Maybe, maybe at potentially at the biggie.

Yeah.

No, that was so cool.

How did you
how did Who billion year pick you to do

you collaborate on an Instagram
reel for Hoop Land?

Yeah, I thought that was amazing.

Yeah, yeah.

And I was like, oh,
I want to be with this guy on a podcast.

We're going to talk about the hoop land.
Yeah, yeah.

We'll pull that video up right
here. Boom. Who planned? Yeah.

You cut a little promo.
It was really cool. Yeah.

How did you how did you make that collab?

So, you know Chad Turner, though, media.

Yeah. See, I talked to him today. Oh.

That's funny.

Yeah. Was that a Go Media video?

Well, yeah, they, they helped
connect me with, with, with the who?

Plenty of people.
I just text them earlier.

Let's get a video here.

Shout out to go media and.

Yeah. Turner,

it's a video is just one.

Of the. Things. I got.

I want a JC championship with Chad Turner.

Shout out to Chad. Best captain.

He's the best captain.

And he does a great thing with Go Media.
Yeah.

Go ahead. Yeah.
Credible land. Yeah. Go media.

Yeah. Know.

So yeah Steven helped
connect me with with Chad.

And then Chad helped
connect me with, with.

Yeah.

Oh. So. Yeah. Cool.

Yeah. It's Chad, Max. Gamo.
Do you know him?

I'm sure he. Oh, I know, I know, Sam Gamo.

Okay.

I don't know if there's a relationship
there. Maybe. Right.

I mean yeah J2 guy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was with
I go to the JCC where I did the workout,

but the the leg press and Max, I'm like,
hey Max.

He's like, look what shirt I'm wearing.

He's wearing a friend's Afeni shirt.
Saturdays are for the friends.

I'm like, excellent,
I got to get a picture.

Yeah. So busy working.
I forgot to get the picture.

So I'm texting around.

I got to get Max to get this picture.

They were like, ask Chad Turner.

I asked Chad Turner.

Small world. You know Chad Turner.

It's my guy. Yeah.

Well let me talk about
some upcoming events that we have here.

So we have the Bristol Blues game on
July 12th in Muzzy Field in Bristol.

We have a cornhole event.
I think you're coming to that you steam.

Oh yeah. End of July. Sixth.

We have like having we have August 15th

yard Goats game August 24th at Parkville
Market.

We're doing backpacks and barbers.

We're doing back to school haircuts.

And I could use you on backpacks.

We'll shape you up nice. Okay. Awesome.

And then a golf event.

How's your golf game. Man?

I played my first 18 holes last fall, so
hopefully I can, I'd love to play again.

Yeah, yeah.

You get breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Oh, well. Long drink whiskey hole.

So you had me a breakfast.

Tamp, beat it.

Upcoming guest on the podcast,
Christine Savin.

Sweet bear coffee.

Heather Culp of Colt Building Consulting.

And Ryan McKenna

and Tom Holtz of Insight Plus technology
that's going to be in Bristol.

We're getting into the Bristol community

jumps by G.

Chee was amazing talking with you,
but any recommendations for our listeners?

Podcast
TV shows the jump by Chee on YouTube.

I recommend you watch that. Yeah.

Yeah. See,

I don't know just yet.

Do do new stuff
and enjoy it while you do it.

Enjoy the weather.

Enjoy, enjoy everything. Enjoy life. Yeah.

And be a good friend. You
I like that. Yeah.

All right. On three.

We'll say be a good friend.

All right. 123. Be a good friend. Awesome.

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