On the evening of March 26, CBA All-Star weekend ended in Xiamen Phoenix Stadium in 2023. In the high-profile dunk contest, Yang Hao, a specially invited foreign card player, defeated two popular stars Zeng fanbo and Zhang Zhenling and won the championship with a full score of 100 points. As a folk dunk master, Yang Hao has appeared in large and small dunk events for many times. This violent dunk, who is only 1.79 meters tall, also ushered in the peak of his career on the CBA All-star field.
The appearance of CBA All-Star, the action is becoming more and more difficult
After winning the dunk contest, Yang Hao and Yi Jianlian left a photo. He decided to dunk the champion for the second time. He started to run-up near the midfield. After picking up the basketball in his partner’s hand, he finished the rotation in the air and scored the goal with one hand. After the dunk, the whole audience heard cheers. Zhao Rui, who lent Yang Hao his jersey to her body, was extremely excited. He rushed up to “wear” the Crown and hugged him. Yang Hao also became the new CBA dunk king without any suspense.
From the preliminary to the final, Yang Hao’s dunking action has been quite cracked. In the preliminary match, facing the Gaorong of the same general and the wall formed by Xu Jie and Luo Han, Yang Hao made an easy leap to complete the dunk action, which made the audience feast their eyes. After winning the full score and successfully advanced to the final, Yang Hao said bluntly: “The action of tomorrow’s final is much tougher than today’s.” He didn’t break his promise, shocked the whole game again in the final, and let the grassroots power bloom on the stage of CBA All-Star game.
In recent years, foreign card players like Yang Hao tend to attract more attention in CBA dunk competitions. They are also more likely to win the championship of dunk competitions because they are more focused on dunk training. Previously, Zhang Jianhao, Tang Haobo, Li Hexu and other folk dunk masters have all played a brilliant role in the CBA dunk contest, while Yang Hao, who has long been famous among the folk, he also successfully took over the mantle of his predecessors and continued the dunk tradition of grassroots players.
From grassroots players to alma mater’s business card
Compared with Zeng fanbo and Zhang Zhenwei, Yang Hao is undoubtedly a grassroots player, but he is not an absolute amateur player. Yang Hao studied in the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University and was a student majoring in sports training. When he was in the fifth grade of primary school, he entered the Amateur Sports School in his hometown and began to formally receive basketball training. At that time, Yang Hao had been able to touch rim. When he was in junior high school, he was able to complete the dunk.
“Primary school wants to play NBA, junior high school wants to play CBA, and later found that it is good to play CUBA.” Yang Hao once described his basketball goal like this. Later, in the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University, Yang Hao really stood on the stage of CUBA league, and this performance in CBA All-Star Game also fulfilled his dream in junior high school to some extent. In the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University, class, training and gym are Yang Hao’s Daily, heavy barbell disk, which will never crush him.
In addition to training, Yang Hao devoted a lot of time to dunk training. In order to study an action of Gordon in NBA dunk king, Yang Hao once watched Gordon’s dunk video repeatedly, recorded the details of the action by handwriting, and even drew hand-drawn decomposition steps to continuously study and practice. In the end, Yang Hao successfully repeated the dunk. He recorded the practice process with video, released the TikTok platform, and won 370000 likes.
Of course, as a student of the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University, Yang Hao is also a fierce general in the school basketball team. In 2021, the Institute of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University, as the only sports institution participating in the CUBA Northwest Division, defeated the traditional strong team Northwestern Polytechnical University for the first time and finally achieved the top eight results. At that time, Yang Hao successfully won the Northwest Division dunk contest. A few months later, he won the dunk contest again in CUBA All-Star game.
Nowadays, the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University regards Yang Hao as a business card and publicizes it on the official media platform of the school many times. As a result, the school wrote in the official public account: “The height is the lowest, the dunk is the most difficult, and the appreciation is the strongest. This student majoring in sports training in Zheng University has once again created history.”
No fear of challenges, unlimited possibilities in the future
As a well-known folk dunk master, Yang Hao is one of the AirChina members of the well-known dunk team. The team was formed by the well-known buckle Han Yuyang. Most of the members are not particularly prominent in height, the 1.93-meter-tall wild ball Emperor balloon hand Xu Tong is already the one with a prominent height in the AirChina th battle. As a professional dunking team, Yang Hao and his teammates may not perform the best in actual combat, but just for dunking, their appreciation and sense of strength are absolutely commendable.
Now, after winning the champion of the CBA dunk contest, Yang Hao, who already had a large number of fans, has experienced another surge in popularity. His number of Douyin fans has exceeded 500000, and his interaction with Zhao Rui, more impressive. Yang Hao once said that Gordon is a top NBA player, but he is only an ordinary student in the School of Physical Education of Zhengzhou University. Even if he fails, what can he do? Therefore, he always chooses to try more challenging actions boldly, and the more people there are, the less he will be afraid of stage fright.
Perhaps, this is the reason why Yang Hao can succeed in dunking! On his TikTok homepage, he was certified as “Champion of CUBA All-Star Dunk Contest”. This certification may soon be upgraded to “champion of CBA dunk competition”. Now Yang Hao has not graduated from university yet, but he has already gained full Harvest. What new miracles will Yang Hao create in the basketball court in the future?
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