New Year's Resolution for 2010

I have started this blog to track my progress on my new year's resolution for 2010: Dunk a basketball.

Dunking has long been recognized as one of the most awesome things you can do. There are many opportunities in sports, and in life, for expressing your dominance over another individual. For example, in football you may bowl someone over to score a touchdown, or in a restaurant you can make a customer eat your spit. But dunking a basketball over someone may be the single best way to destroy another person's will.

While watching the NBA and going to a few Hawks games, I always enjoyed the monster dunks of players, either over or through other players, a high-flying alley-oop, or a breakaway show-stopper. The dunk immediately gets the crowd in the game and can swing momentum. It is a single play with a large impact.

So for 2010 I want to be able to dunk a basketball. I know I won't be able to fly from the free throw line or drop a windmill slam dunk. But I do want to reach that level of athleticism and prowess where I can definitively say, I can dunk a basketball.