In other words, the height of a basketball player is not as important as the length of his arms. The average standing reach by height is 1.
So it would help if you improve your vertical jump for cases like this. The vertical jump is entirely different from height or standing reach. While those things are genetic, you can jump higher with practice. How to dunk with an average height. If you are shorter — both in height and standing reach — you need to jump higher than usual. Practicing to get a vertical jump to a dunkable level is challenging but doable.
There are two types of vertical jumps: standing and maximum. Standing vertical jump means you stand straight in the position and jump up. As for the maximum vertical jump, you can run and gain momentum to increase the strength of your feet.
Usually, people will be more interested in maximum vertical jump because it matches the actual conditions. When playing, no one will stand still and try to jump to dunk a basketball. Anyway, the basketball hoop will be about 10 feet off the ground. So it would help if you tried to jump to make up the difference between your standing reach and that 10 feet. If you want to touch the rim comfortably, add 6 inches. These numbers also mean that the taller you are or the enormous standing reach, the fewer jumps you will have.
If you are lower, you will spend a lot of time trying to reach the lap. Nate Robinson proves that you can dunk even if you are short. Although we say that nothing is impossible, dumping with this height is extremely difficult.
Assuming you are 5 feet 9 inches tall and have an average arm, your standing reach would be about 7 feet 7 inches. Also, you need to be able to jump 35 inches to dunk. This number is quite impressive even for professional basketball players. Not every NBA player can do that. However, a few outstanding individuals like Spud Webb or Nate Robinson have vertical jumps up to 40 inches. They have extraordinary physical strength, which is quite rare.
The closer you get to 6 feet, the easier your dunking will be. You will only need to jump about 24 inches to reach the basketball hoop and 30 inches to dunk. Of course, we assume the case where you have standard arm lengths.
Although 6 feet is only 3 inches taller than 5 feet 9 inches, they decide many issues. That includes dunking. Before we begin, we need to address the basic premise of this article. How tall do you have to be to dunk? The truth is, there is no one required height. There are many people out there who are less than six feet tall who can dunk with relative ease.
Rather than asking how tall you need to be to dunk, you should focus on how high you need to jump. A regulation basketball hoop stands roughly ten feet tall.
To dunk, you need to be able to close the gap between where the hoop sits and your height. Holding the ball is going to make it harder to get up. You also need to be able to throw the ball down by getting it physically above the rim. According to a chart I found, the average vertical leap is as follows: Average 16 to 20 inches Above average 20 to 24 Very good 24 to 28 Excellent More than Therefore for persons with a height of 5'9" the average reach would be 7'3" to 7'6".
To get to the required 10'6" dunking height a person 5'9" would have to leap about 36 to 39 inches, which is a world class vertical leap. Using the chart above for vertical leaps a person 6' with a reach of 7'9" would have to leap 33 inches to dunk.
Again, excellent. Finally, the height for a regular non-athletic person to dunk vertical and reach of 18 inches above head long arms would have to be about 7'4" to 7'8".
The number would vary based on arm length. As the persons reach and leap goes up the average height needed to dunk goes down. The original question is not really answerable in the definitive. Reach and leap play too big a role to simply specify a height. It really depends on if you say "average person" or "average athletic person" or "average basketball player" or etc.
If I had to guess I would say the average 6'4" basketball player can usually dunk while the average 6' basketball player usually can't. High school players to be more specific. I used to be a supreme athlete and probably would of played basketball for a major college like MSU if not for an unfortunate injury I suffered in high school. During practice I missed judged my jump while elevating for a dunk. I ended up blasting my gonads on the rim causing testicular torsion.
The resulting bilateral torsion was so extreme that my testes in an effort to protect themselves began to shutdown my testosterone production. My calves shrank to the size of toothpicks and from that point forward my vertical dropped severely and I could barely graze the bottom of the net with my finger tips. Btw, 5'11". I was also an amazing football player before my injury and I had a cannon for an arm.
I included a pic below for those interested. I'm a shade over 6'. If you looked up 'average athletic ability', you'd see a picture of me at least me 40 years ago. Even I could get 6" over the rim and I could grab the rim with both hands. We didn't have a women's bball back then, but I could dunk a men's ball IF you took a little air out of it to make it easier to palm.
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