April 11-12, 2007 - Tommy has just returned from Kuwait where he performed his basketball freestyle show for Footlocker.
The following is a small glimse of Tommy impacting his streetball audience with some freestyle challenges…
24th February 2007 - Tommy performed his basketball halftime show in Vilnius during the Lithuaniun All-Star Game at the Seimens Arena. During two 5 minute performances Tommy captivated his audience with his basketball freestyle tricks and routines that invoked a tremedous response from the sell out crowd. Also performing their show were the streetball crew ‘Wanted 8-21′.
Below is a short video clip from Tommy’s halftime show:
While in Vilnius Tommy was invited to perform his basketball freestyle show at the Sarunas Marciulionis Basketball Academy, with a tricks and skills workshop for the players to follow…
In July 2006 Tommy toured Europe with Streetball Extreme.
The Extreme Sports channel www.extreme.com/streetball made an 8 part TV series called “Streetball Extreme” that is currently showing on Sky TV channel 419. Check through your planner for the listings…
The tour left from London and went on to play 9 games in the following cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Lyon, Barcelona, Lisbon, Hossegor and finally Paris.
Everyone, including the film crew, squashed into a sleeper coach for 12 days. It got hot and very smelly in the coach, but it was an absolutely crazy tour with fun and mad antics from everyone… especially Hops C and Big Fen.
Tommy performed his basketball halftime show along with Slam Nation, W.O.T.S, Magic Freestyle Crew and Patrick from Warsaw amonst others.
Having won all the games, the conclusion of the tour was that SBX are the best streetball team in Europe and Conman remains useless at Pro Evo Soccer!
Tommy features in the 2003, 2004 & 2006 editions of the Guinness World Records book.
His world record is 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 in 2002. He later broke that record on the Swedish Guinness World Record TV show with 11.9 seconds that same year. In 2004 he was able to edge his new record to 12.9 seconds at the Gateshead Metro Centre, UK. Tommy’s final attempt at his record was to be the main feature at the Bravo TV Football Italia opening evening at Grosvenor Place, London in 2005. His final was 15.19 seconds. The record has subsequently been broken by 2 other people, but Tommy’s record remains in the 2003, 2004 & 2006 editions of the book.
Tommy has worked on two TV commercials for Nike. The first one was called “The Nike Freestyle Campaign II” (video below). The second one was called “The Stick-man”.
Both these adverts featured the Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho along with the world class football freestyle genius of Rob Walters and Mr.Woo.
The cast of this first Nike commercial included:
Sergio Urbani, Jacek Rozskowski, Gilles V.D. Hoeven, Adeshir Dejagha, Aziz Eibohdidi, Antonio Palermo, Tommy Baker, Amadou Gueye Faris Khenniche, Maurizio Cannavo, as well as Nike sponsored athletes Totti, Ronaldinho, Silvestre, Mendieta and Lopez.
This commercial was directed by Charles Randolph-Wright
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.
Main Sponsor: ‘DESTINATION FORD’
Football freestyle legend ‘Rob Walters’ and Tommy Baker are one of the best football freestyle double acts available. Providing primarily corporate entertaiment, Rob & Tommy create the instant “Wow” factor at any event by delivering a high impact to any audience. Rob and Tommy have performed together all over the world. They have performed for Destination Ford in 4 consecutive Champions League Finals (2002-2005)…photo’s below.
Rob & Tommy have also worked at numerous other corporate events, including Motor Shows in the UK and Germany, in Montreal at “An Audience with Pele”, and various Nike events.
If you are interested in finding out more information about Rob & Tommy’s double act freestyle show you can either contact Tommy through this site or contact Rob through his web site: www.robwalterssoccer.com
This video clip represents some of Tommy’s early performance material… things have really moved on for Tommy since this was filmed:
