Jump Training by dunkman yoshi

I moved to the United States at 17 because I wanted to play basketball. I spoke zero English. In a place where I had no family and not a single acquaintance, I built everything from the ground up, every single day, communicating with people, keeping up in class, learning English, and training for basketball all at once.

I kept playing basketball, both on teams and on my own. Then in 2014, during a game, an opponent fouled me and I came down hard on my hand, completely fracturing my left forearm. I had surgery right away and had two plates put in. A few years later, once my doctor said it was fine, I had the plates removed. But later, while stealing a base in a baseball game, I broke the exact same spot in the exact same way. Another surgery. This time the plan was a plate in one bone and a rod through the elbow for the other.

The trouble was, the discomfort in my arm never went away. When I visited a specialist at UCLA, we found that because of the angle of the rod, the bone hadn’t fully fused. So I went in for a third surgery, removed the rod, and replaced it with a plate.

And it didn’t stop at the arm. Even after the surgeries settled down, the problems kept coming, one after another: lower-back pain, my shoulder, my hip, sciatica. Every time I fought my way back and my body finally felt stable, something else would break down. Then, after I moved back to Japan, I tore the meniscus in my knee. That’s the most recent battle, and right now, at this very moment, it’s finally starting to heal.

Every time I went through another surgery or another round of rehab, I hit rock bottom, physically and mentally. But I live by a motto: turn every setback into a chance to improve myself. What matters isn’t never falling down; it’s getting back up, again and again. So each time, I put in the rehab and the training, step by step, and eventually I started chasing something bigger, dunking. I’m about 172 cm (5'8"), not exactly built for it. But that’s the point: throwing down a dunk after coming back from serious injuries and multiple surgeries means something. It can give someone else the courage to keep going.

Life is full of adversity. Building a business in Japan, chasing a career here, learning Japanese. It’s all the same. You don’t level up or succeed all at once. It’s one small brick at a time. Only when those bricks finally take shape do you see the result. The Dunkman Yoshi project is a mirror of that way of living.

No matter how high the bar looks, if you keep putting in the work, believing it will take shape one day, you will move forward. That’s what I believe. Drawing on everything I’ve been through, I want to support people not only with Japanese and career coaching, but with training too.

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