Ninety seconds, two dunkers, one camera, and no host questions that anybody rehearsed. I put Polish dunker Piotr Zawiślak and Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney next to each other at The Dunk Camp in Salt Lake City and asked them what they thought of each other. What came back is the most useful ninety seconds of tape I got all week, because these two are good at almost completely different things.
Piotr is an eighteen-year-old from Poland who just won the camp’s ten-foot contest. Nate is a 5’7″ creator from Omaha who won the low rim title at this camp in 2025 and is widely considered the best mini hoop dunker who has ever lived. They do not compete for the same slots. Which is exactly why their opinions of each other are worth something.
Nate on Piotr: The Youngest Black Band Ever
“Piotr is the youngest athlete to ever get a black band, which is the most prestigious level of dunking, and he’s the youngest to do it.”
Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney
Band ranking is how this community has sorted itself for years. Black is the top of it and the list of people who hold one is short enough to name. It normally arrives late in a career, after a decade of sessions and a couple of knee problems. Piotr got there at eighteen.
Nate did not stop at the credential. He went straight to the receipts from that week.
“He just won the ten foot contest at Dunk Camp. He went crazy. His style’s nuts. He hit a 360 Underboth, which is one of the most elite dunks in the entire world.”
Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney
A 360 Underboth is a full rotation with the ball passing under both legs mid-spin. It is a two-part dunk where the second part begins while you have no idea where the rim is. Very few people on earth throw it in a contest setting. Piotr throws it as his signature.
Piotr on Nate: Nobody Better on a Low Rim
“That’s the best low rim dunker I’ve ever seen. He can do everything. Every dunk you can imagine, Hoopin Nate can do.”
Piotr Zawiślak
This is a ten-foot specialist grading a low rim specialist, which is the part I want people to notice. The community argues about low rim constantly. There is a permanent comment section debate about whether a lowered goal counts. A guy who just won the ten-foot contest saying nobody is better than Nate on a low rim settles more of that argument than any of us shouting at each other online.
Then Piotr added the detail that actual dunkers care about.
“he’s got right hand, left hand. Everything, so I think in the future… Right now he’s crazy, but I feel like in a few years, you are gonna be one of the best dunkers.”
Piotr Zawiślak
Ambidexterity is the most undervalued trait in this sport. Nearly everybody has a dominant side and a side they hide. Nate throws the same trick both directions and it looks identical either way, which doubles his contest list and makes his practice hours worth twice what mine are.
Piotr Also Watched Him on the Regulation Rim
“So I’ve seen Nate jumping with me on ten feet. He was going crazy.”
Piotr Zawiślak
He listed an Eastbay, a 360 windmill and a reverse windmill, all on ten feet, in the same session. That should reset how people file Nate. The public still thinks of him as the mini hoop guy because that is where a billion views came from, and the work has moved on without the label.
He trained with Isaiah Rivera in Florida in 2025 and came back with six new ten-foot tricks. He put down a 360 windmill and a 9 foot Eastbay Hide and Seek at this camp. Somebody who is 5’7″ doing full windmill variations on a regulation rim is a different athlete than the one in the kitchen clips, and it takes the audience a few years to catch up to that.
The Answer That Actually Separates Pros
I asked both of them what they found most inspiring about the other’s technique. Nate’s answer had nothing to do with a specific dunk.
“The most inspiring thing is he can hit everything within like one or two tries, and that’s so important in the dunking world, especially with contests and to be exciting in shows.”
Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney
Every dunker reading this just nodded. Attempts are the hidden variable in the entire sport. A clip proves you did it once. It says nothing about whether you did it on the second try or the sixtieth, and the internet has trained an entire audience to think there is no difference.
There is an enormous difference the moment money is involved. A contest gives you two attempts and a shot clock. A halftime show gives you one run and a crew that needs the floor back. If your best dunk takes fifteen tries, you cannot sell it, you can only post it. Nate backed that up with the specific number.
“He hits 360 inverter first try almost every time.”
Nathaniel “Hoopin Nate” Kenney
That is a bookable athlete. Every promoter in this sport is buying the same thing, which is the confidence that the guy will land it while the lights are on.
Two Specialists, No Overlap, No Reason to Lie
Dunkers rating each other usually comes with an asterisk. If two guys are chasing the same contest checks, praise gets careful. These two are not in that position. Nate is the reference point on low rims and mini hoops. Piotr is a ten-foot power and creativity guy who just beat a deep field on a regulation goal.
So each of them is grading a discipline they do not own, out loud, with a camera running, and neither one hedged. Nate said the sky’s the limit for this kid and said it twice. Piotr said Nate will be one of the best dunkers in a few years and said it directly to his face rather than about him.
Piotr flew to a FIBA event one week after camp with that on tape behind him. Nate flew home with a black band dunker on record about his low rim work. Both of those are worth more than another highlight reel.
Where the Rest of This Lives
Both guys wrote their own versions. Piotr’s is at the best low rim dunker he has ever seen. Nate’s is at why Piotr is the youngest black band ever. Their sites now link to each other, which is the point of doing it this way.
The first time I met Piotr in person is covered in two of the best 18-year-old dunkers meeting. Dunker Spotlight broke down why mutual endorsement works, Athlete Spotlight ran it past dunking in vouching for each other on camera, and BlitzMetrics covered the search mechanics in reciprocal credibility between two experts.
This footage exists because Dennis Yu and I taught a session at camp on how athletes show up on Google and in AI tools, then offered to film anyone who wanted it. That system is documented in the 76 athlete repurposing writeup.
Get the two people in your gym who are good at different things in front of one camera and ask them about each other. It takes ninety seconds and it beats anything either of them could say about themselves.