Kadour Ziani’s Euro Dunk Contest This Weekend
A living dunk legend for over 10 years, Kadour Ziani has decided to gather some of the greatest European dunk legends for one unique event this weekend: The Euro Dunk Contest.
Organized for the first time in Europe by the master of its kind, the Euro Dunk Contest will feature dunkers from 11 participating countries: Croatia, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovenia. And from those countries, some of the world’s greatest dunkers will compete: the Tourais Brothers and Habib Thiour representing France, the Russian “Shal”, the Polish “Slash” Olszewski (master of the 540), the German Charly Alfred (who won the Reality Check contest in Cologne) and the Slovenian Tijan Milic.
After receiving videos of new dunkers from France, China, Russia, Spain, The Philippines, Guyana, The Netherlands, Italy and the United States, asking Ziani for his opinion or seeking advice from him to improve, the idea to create this contest was born.
Via Facebook and some dunking blogs, 13 candidates were selected by the Ziani and Dan Rogojan, head of communications at Sports Arena (near the Polytechnic University of Bucharest), the venue for the contest in Romania.
During the four days of competition, only one dunker per country will be allowed to perform his art, except for France which will have three: Alexander and Loïc Tourais, as well as Habib Thiour. “To me, Habib is the best right now based on what he has shown lately,” said Ziani.
Offering a level of competition never reached in one of the most electric atmospheres possible, this long weekend of competition in Romania will be one you don’t want to miss.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Pathological says:
These niquor’s cant dunk..lolz
August 28th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
S-SiN says:
Bucharest is the armpit of Europe. i hope u follow this up with a video of some sort..
August 29th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Frank says:
The line up:
1. Habib Thiour - Frane
2. Tourais Loic - France
3. Domenico Forlico - Italy
4. Lorenzo Pinciroli -Italy
6. Emil Olszewski (Slash) - Poland
7. Charly Dankwa - Germania
8. Alexander Shalygin (Shal) - Russia
9. Krudinsyzky Patrik - Hungary
10. Odulaja Omotayo - England
11. Bonne Meintema - Holland
12. Tijan MIlic - Slovenia
13. Vili Paoletic - Croatia
14. Oynur Musledin - Romania
August 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball says:
now if only ziani didn’t look like a crack head lol but seriously his double windmill is nice. Not too excited about most of these guys and its only a matter of time before dime goes back to hyping how TFB randomly showed up to the dunk contest lol. I still say we just need an olympics style dunk contest where the winnger gets like 50Gs or something.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
DaGood says:
“Offering a level of competition never reached in one of the most electric atmospheres possible, this long weekend of competition in Romania will be one you don’t want to miss.”
That’s some lazy-ass journalism: at least pretent to re-write the damn press-release!!
August 30th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Coco says:
S-sin my friend you will be surprised to find out that Bucharest is not the armpit of Europe, that just goes to show your geography is crap. Anyway, I have been to the EDC and it wasn’t a extraordinary show, but it was a good show, a few good dunkers, a lot of streetball beeing played. Here is a video of last years’ Sport Arena Streetball tournament from Bucharest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEPd3GsfOk&feature=related
August 31st, 2009 at 3:50 am
loozer says:
i think it was better than “a good show”… russian dude jumped over a hardtop with it’s roof on !!! (dupuy jumped over the same car last year, but with the roof off)
ok, there were some guys that didn’t deliver.. there was a french guy that haven’t managed to do a single dunk (i think it was just a bad day for him, looked like he could do some nice dunks too)
and fun fact.. what was the last dunk contest you saw, that both a bike and a car got jumped over and needed repairs afterwards ?
August 31st, 2009 at 3:54 am
loozer says:
@DaGood:
“Offering a level of competition never reached”
this is correct, until now i haven’t seen a scored dunk contest in europe between guys this good
“one of the most electric atmospheres possible”
crowd didn’t really react to kadour, but when noise was required, they provided it (althou you can’t compare this with france or the rucker)
“this long weekend of competition in Romania will be one you don’t want to miss”
this is true… besides lame-ass shooting contests, anything you wanted to do with a basketball over the weekend, you could do it there
i agree that the PR doesn’t look like it’s been done by a guy that gets paid to to this, but if i would have read this before i went there, i wouldn’t say it was bullshit (i can’t say it was a can’t miss event, but i’m glad i was there)
August 31st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
drogo says:
video in a few days
SHAL the russian guy won with some unbelievable dunks.
windmill over 3 standing guys
reverse pump over standing guy
dunk over non comvertable car
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
zrinko says:
Kadour Ziani is amazing sportsman and dunker
I belive in his project
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Kev says:
Everybody who wants to improve his vertical gotta see this:
http://www.howtodunk.org