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TOMMY BAKER
BASKETBALL SPINNER & FREESTYLER
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| Tommy Baker is a professional Sports Entertainer. He performs a world
class basketball freestyle show using up to 3 full size basketballs.
The tricks and skills that Tommy performs in his show have literally
rewritten what is humanly possible using basketballs. Performing
the most technical basketball routines ever seen, along with
audience participation, Tommy has a lasting impact on his audience's
imagination. Tommy performs locally and internationally for
corporate events, product launches, store promotions, half-time
shows, festivals, parties and TV commercials. He has recently
toured with the Extreme Sports TV Channel performing his freestyle
show for the Streetball Extreme team at a number of cities all
over Europe. |
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World
Records Tommy
is a regular feature in the Guinness World Records. He features
in the 2003, 2004 & 2006 editions of the Guinness World
Records book. He was initially invited to set the world record
for spinning a football on his forehead for the longest time.
Tommy set the record at 9.5 seconds on the Guinness World Record
television show in Finland. A month later he was invited to
break this record on the Swedish Guinness World Record television
show. He set a new record at 11.9 seconds. In 2004, Guinness
invited Tommy to Gateshead, England to make another attempt at his record.
He was able to edge his new record to 12.9 seconds. Tommy's
latest attempt at his record was to be the main feature at the
Bravo TV Football Italia opening evening at Grosvenor Place, London in 2005. The current world record
now stands at 15.19 seconds, which will be featured in the 2007
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| Nike
Tommy
has worked on two TV commercials for Nike. The first one was
called "The Nike Freestyle Campaign II". The second
one was called "The Stick-man". Both these adverts
featured the Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldinho. |
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| Adidas Tommy
has worked alongside Adidas basketball since 1998. He is a regular
feature at the Adidas All Star Basketball Camp held in Germany for up and coming professional players.
During his visit each year Tommy introduces a creative side
of basketball through his tricks and skills that relaxes the
players while maintaining the intensity and discipline of the
camp. Tommy runs a ball handling clinic for all the players
before performing his half-time show at the All Star game. |
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