Even at the age of 15, Kobe Bryant was a prodigy. Years before he would take the NBA by storm and win five championships, he was dunking like a pro.

In the wake of his tragic death in a helicopter accident on Sunday, footage of Bryant’s first slam dunk contest had come to light and it’s a spectacle, back in high school days at Lower Merion in Philadelphia. It includes a tomahawk dunk, Bryant slamming over two youngsters kneeling in the lane and Bryant tossing the ball in the air, catching it at its apex and flushing it backwards.

Bryant won the 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Contest as a rookie.