Travis Reynolds

Travis Reynolds is a professional dunker from North Carolina and a recurring co-host of the Dunk Talk Podcast. By his own account he was a chubby kid who was never a star in any sport, and the obsession started at 11 or 12 when a classmate touched something he could not reach. In the summer of 2014 he found professional dunkers on Instagram. The first pro dunk he ever saw was a 360 elbow at an LA Fitness, filmed by Dunkademics, and at the time he could barely grab the rim on the 8-foot hoop outside his house. He started following Isaiah Rivera right after Isaiah got his first dunk.

His own climb was slower. He got his first dunk in April 2018 at 15, then spent about a year and a half stuck on basic one-handers, jumping daily at 210 pounds with no structured training until his knees gave out. Joining THP fixed the knees and taught him to train consistently, and getting to 170 pounds by June 2020 opened the trick bag. Windmills and tomahawks came first, then the Behind the Back, which he chased from January to October of 2020 and calls the first dunk that made him feel like an actual dunker. He beat Tom Barnes to it in a race the community followed closely, and half his comment section still calls him Mr. Behind the Back.

The dunk that became his own is the Hide and Seek. He had thrown it around for fun in 2020, dropped it, then came back a year later on a hunch and realized it was possible. Before that, Jordan Kilganon was the only person who had done it off two feet. Travis has landed about twenty since, including a two-hand version that took two months to figure out, and he insists it is not a vertical dunk, it is the pass, which is why he has made some warming up on a lazy jump. He also owns the Dunk Camp black band, which took weeks of tweaking one thing per session until, in his words, the stars aligned.

What makes him unusual is the documentation. He measures every rim with a laser, holds himself to 9 feet 11.5 inches and up, and posts full sessions whether they go well or badly, which is how he has built more than 300,000 followers and over 400 million views. He founded the North Carolina Dunk Squad, is filmed by Dunkademics, and sat down with Dylan Haugen to argue why every dunker should make long-form content, pointing to Isaiah as proof that people connect with a whole journey rather than three highlights.

He is just as open about the setbacks. A herniated L5 disc, which started with deep barbell squatting and finished with a session of Eastbay attempts, cost him months of jumping and still keeps a barbell off his back. Later a rim rattled the ball into his finger and bent it backward, putting him in a splint for seven weeks that he spent training his off-hand on low rims, then coming back to hit the best 360 Eastbay of his life in warm-ups. He has been on the show since to break down the 2026 NBA dunk contest, but the episode that holds all of it is his full dunk journey and injury history, one of the most complete the show has done. It is not the end of the world, he tells every injured dunker who messages him, and he has earned the right to say it.