Surely everyone that has been to a live NBA game has seen their hometown team’s “Flight Crew”, a squad made up of athletic slam dunkers doing dazzling jams off of trampolines during halftime.
It has become commonplace at every pro or collegiate ballgame in the modern era.
But what if the dunking exhibition also incorporated juggling, break-dancing, skateboarding, BMX freestyle, circus tricks, and death defying attempts to break World Records?
That is precisely what that rather cleverly named Lords of Freestyle Dunk Team has been doing for some time now overseas.
But get ready, as Europe’s most well known acrobatic dunk team is soon coming to a town near you in America, amazing the masses with dunks and tricks that most have never seen before.
They are a young group of super talented gymnasts, tumblers, and basketball players that first came together in the Summer of 2012 at the University of Physical Education in Budapest, Hungary.
They have performed at some of the largest arenas and festivals in Europe but are now venturing across the pond to America to put on shows that feature tricks that are now officially in the record books, including finishing off the World’s Farthest Basketball Slam Dunk, pulled off by the Lords back in 2012 in Berlin.
They have begun to take the World by storm and have drawn the attention of the NBA as legendary players like Robert Parish and rising young stars like Andre Drummond and Kenneth Faried have participated in recent Lords of Gravity shows across the globe.
Backflips off the top of the backboard….check. Head above the glass dunks….check. Trampoline dunks over a full size camper….double check. Be amazed by the death defying Lords of Gravity….
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen has also provided content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, Cleveland.com, CSN Philly.com, Buckets Magazine, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.