Finn Addy

Finn Addy is a 6’1″ one-foot dunker from Ontario who posts as the 1FootDisciple. He started lowering rims at twelve or thirteen, pretending to be Derrick Rose and LeBron James. Once he could touch the rim he found Steven Celi on YouTube, watched him go from an ordinary 5’10” guy to Eastbays, and started chasing a real dunk. It came at the end of grade 10, at about 5’10” and 120 pounds, on his high school’s 9’10” rim.

What is unusual about him is how far raw bounce carried him on its own. He went to Dunk Camp 2022 mostly to watch the pros, without even an Instagram account, and hit his first Eastbay there on adrenaline after watching Jordan Southerland. He made the account a week later. A season of college basketball in 2023 then turned him, in his words, into a marathoner: he opened the year Eastbaying and finished it barely able to windmill. He left the team, and his vertical climbed back on nothing but jumping and rest.

2024 was the year it compounded. Five months of self-written programming, assembled from every piece of THP and JumpX material he could find, added about three inches, and in the month before Dunk Camp he landed 17 new dunks. A few days out, his brother challenged him to a wrestling match; Finn won it twice and woke up with a tight hamstring, which meant he barely jumped Monday and was fresh Thursday. He made all three first-round dunks, walked into the final in last place of six, and won the 10-foot contest with a two-hand reverse windmill on the first try.

That one contest rewrote his year. It sent him to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour stop in Edmonton against Donovan Hawkins and Brandon Ruffin, a weekend he still calls the best of his life; he punched his first two dunks and lost the third to a bad lob off an unfamiliar ball. Jordan Kilganon watched that contest live and brought him out to train at his place. Detroit followed, alongside Mason Baker, and then New Jersey, getting paid to dunk at the camp run by Southerland, the dunker he had idolized since he was thirteen. He had started that year with about 500 Instagram followers.

His bag is built around a 360 Eastbay he has hit off the lob and off the dribble, and he is a stickler about labeling rim heights when he posts. Around it sit a behind the back, a J-Rich, an inverted Eastbay and the cuff and 360 windmills he took to the FIBA stage. His training has a shape he can now describe precisely: a long general block, then heavy quarter squats moved fast and depth jumps, then a complete back-off, which is when the vertical explodes.

Episode 53 caught him on the other side of a setback. His knee went about six jumps into the one-foot portion of a Vegas session and cost him the first full week off jumping he had taken in a year. He rebuilt through isometrics and slow leg extensions, then short two-foot sessions, then five one-foot jumps, then ten, then full sessions again. Out the other side came the best session of his life and his first under-both dunk at 6’1″, off a measured 43-inch vertical. Next on the list are a 45-inch test, a 360 behind the back, and becoming the kind of dunker who wins contests and puts on a show. More at finnaddy.com.