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Thanks to Matt for sending the link to this incredible video.



I have questions. First of all, who is the dunker? Word is he might be from the Chinese National team? UPDATE from commenter Max Powar: His name is Shunsuke Nagasaki and he was part of the Japanese team that won a silver medal at the Trampoline World Championships held in Eindhoven in 2005. Second of all, can someone please explain the physics here? How does jumping near the edge of the trampoline send this guy sideways as if shot from a cannon?



Assuming this is real, it's just incredible. That he flew so far is one thing. Making the dunk too! I watched it five times.



UPDATE: More video. This is why you should not try this at home.



UPDATE: This thing has really opened my eyes to the fact that there is a lot of video in this world of white kids in expensive surroundings videotaping themselves dunking on trampolines. You could make a whole blog just by collecting video clips like the nastily painful one in the comments, and others like this and this. I'll let you imagine your own social commentary.



UPDATE: This painful video has already been pointed out in the comments. An anonymous tipster tells me that the kid in the Horace Grant jersey is, in fact, Horace Grant, Jr.