New footage of dunk highlights from Henry Bekkering

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kaz kaz posted 4/3/2007 from myespn.go.com [flag]
This dunk-o-matic footage from the archives, of Canadian Henry Bekkering, must be seen to be believed. Here's some more. Sent to me by Tommy Beer of Hoopsworld who points out that Bekkering is the first person he has ever seen windmill while jumping over somebody. [link]

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  • kcudah kcudah
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    that was sweet
    Posted 4/4/2007 [reply] [flag]
  • la287 la287
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    How does this video get any "No" votes? I'd like to know...

    Apparently Bekkering played at Eastern Washington for two seasons, and played some solid minutes, before mysteriously dropping off the team.

    Posted 4/5/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Henry Bekkering - Mad Dunker
Published 4/3/2007 by Scott at NBA Weblog
... This video has been making the blog rounds (hat tip, TrueHoop blog), but I just had to post it here, too. This kid has amazing atheletic ability, as evidenced by his dunks. Sadly, he doesn't sound like a very good basketball player - he plays mostly scrub time at his school,

Henry Bekkering is your father
Published 4/4/2007 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... Tipped off by True Hoop, here’s footage of a white (!), Canadian (!!) dunker (!!!!!) named Henry Bekkering. He’s from Alberta, and the Air Alberta nickname is all too natural. For example:

I'm still partial to the Birdman
Published 4/4/2007 by Blog@FanIQ.com (CriticalFanatic) at FanIQ Blog
... From True Hoop (thanks to

Apparently At Least One White Man Can Dunk
Published 4/4/2007 by Scrap at Our Book of Scrap
... (The Tip: True Hoop)

Digressions with Sam v1.4 (I’m pretty sure)
Published 11/16/2007 by mgrange at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
... featuring a dunk contest between Andrew Parker of the University of Alberta and Henry Bekkering, now of the University of Calgary. It’s pretty amazing. Bekkering is a bit of a legend among those who care about these things. I first wrote about him in 2004 for The Globe when he made an appearance on Fox’s Best Damn Sports Show after footage from a Vancouver dunk contest was making the rounds. Henry over at TrueHoop got some links and posted them in April. He also posted a feature I wrote on Henry for Toro Magazine (RIP). So yeah, Henry’s well-known in a narrow casting sense. ...

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