This is episode 43 of the Dunk Talk Podcast. I’m Dylan Haugen, and the guest is Finn Addy, the 1FootDisciple, back for his second episode and now wearing the title this one hands him: one of the most improved dunkers of 2024. The summary stat says everything: Finn started the year with 500 Instagram followers as a self-described “all right dunker, nothing crazy.” He ended it as a paid professional with a Dunk Camp contest win, a FIBA appearance, three or four shows, sessions at Jordan Kilganon’s house, and a slot in the Vegas mega-session. This is the year-in-review, plus the single most irresponsible caffeine story in podcast history.
The domino year
Finn’s 2024 is a clean chain of dominoes, each knocking over the next:
- Five months of self-coached training before Dunk Camp, built from obsessively watching THP and Jump Master content. First real lifting of his life. Roughly three inches of vertical gained.
- Won the Dunk Camp 10’ contest, which he calls the moment everything changed: the step from underrated amateur to pro.
- The contest win sent him to FIBA Edmonton, where he crushed his first two dunks and lost on a third-dunk Eastbay his inconsistent lob betrayed (his stated fix for next time: go out of the hand).
- Kilganon watched the FIBA broadcast live, liked what he saw, and invited Finn to his house in Sudbury. They’ve since dunked together in Toronto two or three more times, and Finn joined JMX, Kilganon’s training program, where the gains are already showing after six weeks.
- The shows followed: Toronto with Sherman Sue (legit outdoor 10’, jumped great), Detroit with Mason Baker and Travis Slayen, and a New Jersey appearance, paid, at the 1FootGod basketball camp run by Jordan Southerland, the idol he’s studied since age 13. The Instagram handle is literally “1FootDisciple.” That booking was the universe doing fan service.
Detroit: Next Chapter, a shirt-off Zeani, and 900 milligrams of caffeine
The Detroit event deserves its own section. It was a Next Chapter production (Scotty Weaver’s channel, now around 750,000 YouTube subscribers and genuinely changing how basketball content works), effectively a THP showcase: John Evans picked Finn, Mason, and Travis to represent the program. Finn expected a short set with breathing room; instead they dunked for nearly an hour at a pace of one dunk every ten seconds or so, and he ran out of bag in the best possible way. He calls it the most energy he’s ever felt in a dunk setting.
His highest-adrenaline moment of the year happened there: he missed the Zeani Windmill, the crowd started chanting run it back, he took his shirt off, and hit it twenty seconds later to an eruption. And now the confession, presented as a cautionary tale and absolutely not a recommendation: Finn’s caffeine intake that day totaled roughly 900 milligrams: a triple-strength Monster from a gas station, a caffeine pill, then two more pills before the evening session. He describes finishing the show in a fog, unsure what had just happened, with ruined knees. He also admitted he hasn’t dunked caffeine-free at any point in 2024. Kids: 900 milligrams is a trip to the emergency room for a lot of people. The Zeani was cool though.
The numbers, one year into lifting
- Vertical: tested 42 off one foot, 39 off two. Touched 11’4” last week on an 8’1” (in shoes) reach. Target for the Vegas session: a tested 43 off one, which, as we discussed, is a far rarer animal than 43 off two. The elastic side is the hard side to train; mostly you’re born with it.
- Squat: roughly 200 to roughly 300 in a year (half-squat depth, honestly disclosed).
- Quarter squat: 405-455 moved fast in his pre-camp block; his 2025 party trick goal is putting 500 on the bar and seeing how quickly it moves.
- Deadlift: 275 to 315, with 350 in the tank.
- Power clean: started two weeks ago, already at 185. 2025 targets: 350 half squat, 405 deadlift, 225 bench, 225 power clean.
The off-one versus off-two conversation produced my favorite exchange of the episode. Finn’s off-two bag is mostly double-ups and he openly treats two-foot as a warmup for the one-foot work, but with an 11’4” touch he’s within range of a two-foot Underboth and barely knows it. Meanwhile I learned I had one-foot talent only when Kilganon’s RSI testing said so. Everyone’s blind to half their own toolkit.
The bag, ranked by Finn
Off one: 360 Eastbay (off the lob at 9’10.5”, off the dribble at 9’9.5”), behind-the-back, the Zeani Windmill (his signature; both of our favorite dunks he does, even though he insists it isn’t technically hard, it just looks impossible the way he flattens it out), J Rich, and the Inverter. Off two: Dubble Up Eastbay, the 9’10.5” Eastbay, off-the-backboard Windmill, the Cuff Windmill he loves most, and Reverse Pump.
The 2025 dunk list he read off his phone is enormous: Tamale, Underboth, Cuff Windmill Honey Dip with a hang, the Butterfly Effect, Cuff Windmill with both elbows, Eastbay Honey Dip and Eastbay behind-the-back (J Rich entry, the version Sol hit) and Double Eastbay all on 9’9”-plus, 180 Underboth, 360 behind-the-back, behind-the-back Scorpion, Dubble Up Scorpion, Dubble Up Honey Dip, and two secret dunks he believes he’s inventing. For the WDA Gauntlet, he’s realistically two dunks away (behind-the-back two-hand and Underboth) plus the small matter of doing them all in one session.
The Vegas bet
Public record, because this is too good to lose: Finn and Donovan Hawkins have a standing wager for the Vegas session. If Donovan hits an Underboth off one foot, Finn puts a thousand Canadian dollars on black at the casino. If Finn hits it, same bet, Donovan’s money. Either way somebody is gambling, and if Finn wins the spin he’s keeping it, no double-down, and paying off the whole trip. We also counted the potential Underboth club at the session: Finn, Dom, possibly Slinks, possibly me. Five Underboths in one amateur session would be historic.
What actually changed
I asked Finn the real question: beneath the events and followers, what changed? His answer: mentality. Before FIBA and before meeting Kilganon he was half-in, half-out on dunking. After, it consumed him; it’s all he does and all he thinks about. The 2025 goals reflect a dunker who knows what he is now: win a FIBA contest (Edmonton would be poetic, though Donovan will probably be standing there), earn a real feature in a Dunkademics video instead of his current five cumulative seconds of mid dunks (a grievance Billy and I share, for the record: Billy filmed my Lost and Found and Hide-and-Seek and gave me one Windmill in the recap), and become a genuinely great show and contest dunker rather than a new-dunk collector.
From 500 followers to this, in twelve months, off the back of one contest entry he almost didn’t take. The lesson for every underrated amateur reading: enter the contest. Finn is “1FootDisciple” on Instagram (now editing in CapCut, watermark-free, we’re so proud). Vegas content lands everywhere soon. Comment with your most-improved-of-2024 pick.