Andy Behle is a 5'10" dunker from Austin, Texas who goes up off two feet from a left-right plant, with the Eastbay as his signature. He has tested a 45" vertical.
His athletic background is deeper than most people in the sport. He played Texas football through the age of eighteen as a top-ten receiver and kick returner in the state, competed as a triple jumper with a 47 foot best that ranked fifth in Texas, and built a powerlifting base underneath it that includes a 570 pound sumo deadlift. Very little of that was ever aimed at a rim.
He did not even like basketball. What pulled him in was watching Dunkademics session footage as a teenager and wanting to jump, with no interest in the sport attached to it. Then at nineteen, with his dunking peaking, he bulged two discs in his back. He stopped posting entirely and spent a long stretch out of the sport, which for a lot of people is where the story ends.
Getting back took a full rethink rather than more effort. He rebuilt around periodization, managed load and actual recovery, and came back to an elite vertical with a body that could hold up to it, which is why he now talks about training in far more detail than most dunkers do. He has also been a recurring guest on the From The Jump podcast, which is his friend Nick's show rather than his own.
All Andy Behle videos filmed by @dunkademicsofficial.