Dominique Dawes - Back to back tumbling

[@SHaqq-wv9hn]

One of the BEST to EVER do it!!! I feel Dominque is a severely underrated gymnast in history. WOW, just WOW!!!

[@aliciaadams6257]

Agree she has always been one of my favorites.

[@ctruth6185]

Dominique Dawes was a superstar based upon her fx. She got standing ovations everywhere she went. Dawes covered the entire floor with skills that's why she was the real deal.

[@kimberlyepps3730]

She was the only gymnast that I know of to do tumble like this.

[@shimeicareaves]

Me to ugh times pass

[@shimeicareaves]

At such a young age

[@Karla_Marie]

There were a couple of Russian girls in the mid-80s that were doing this. She made it famous though. This back-to-back thing is banned now. She messed up her ankles on that.

[@captainbryce1]

@@Karla_Marie Oksana Omelianchik was the first to do a back to back tumbling sequence, however it wasn't nearly as difficult as what we see here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3EpGCuhN2Bpqs&t Daniela Silivas was the next gymnast to a back to back sequence similar to this, and Dominique Dawes was inspired by her. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6vYmnmoma18ps0 Dominique elevated the difficulty however as she is the only one who combined multiple acrobatic whips into the pass and added a double sommersault at the end of such a complicated sequence. Each one took the back to back tumbling to the next level, but it culminated with Dawes before they essentially banned it from the Code of Points.

[@honeybfly1980]

Yup

[@joycenierman6225]

That little girl did little posing and vogueing...just pure talent and hard work !!! She earned the name Awesome Dawson !!! YESSS!!- THE BEST !!!

[@marjorietillman6697]

She was Awesome then, and now she’s just as beautiful with her lovely family with a good husband and kids!!

[@Ryann8822]

This is so good it doesn’t look real. Amazing talent.

[@bunnymanmoe8819]

Beast mode

[@MattzOnFire]

I LOVED her floor exercises. She was the only gymnast that I'd ever seen tumble like that. 1:25 "Her first tumbling pass-it goes on forever!"

[@kelleypopkowski1789]

Amazing 👏. No one was like her. This was when gymnastics was exciting to watch !

[@honeybfly1980]

Yes!!

[@Observer100-cn7gv]

She flips in the air twice in succession while her hands don't even touch the ground. Greatness! She was great. Very talented.

[@Strawberry23ld]

My favorite gymnast!! She was awesome and a delight to watch back in the day as a young person. She paved the way. Class Act.

[@moshe2495]

They ripped this child off. She never got the credit she deserved. May the judges get their reward.

[@deborahhudson9482]

She was amazing! Another trailblazer

[@nishac.]

THE G.O.A.T!!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@deer9311]

Right!!!!! The real G.O.A.T!!!

[@normanpeters6465]

Wow. First time seeing a tumble like that. Amazing. 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dydydufjfjfuf4500]

Awesome Dawesome. !!

[@ShaiGirl00]

Immaculate. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bjsmith4310]

Dominique did a perfect line going back up and a perfect line going back down again. Awesome Dominique was the first and than Simone Biles came after her. Never seen anyone person like her that could do those styles of gymnastics.

[@nottodaylilbaldhead]

You're forgetting Gabby Douglas

[@TheTimo5494]

Gabby was simones inspiration she has said that seeing gabby win made her believe she could do it. So don't just skip over gabby she made history

[@marylove482]

She's the best

[@MsNerdsRevenge]

New Limited NFL Partner. Thank you Dominique Dawes!!!❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@franciscomontenegro588]

Legend, Forever

[@imhereforitall9218]

07/23/2024 - After watching this I am dizzy. Great job.

[@MissShila]

I am amazed. She is exceLLent! Wow, wow, wow. That signature reverse/doubLe twist fLip!!!! Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!! She might be my favorite.

[@magscovers8924]

When you press the reverse button in real life.

[@StaceyFranklin-fm7li]

She is just amazing to watch even more amazing she had her own unique style.she differently stood out from the rest and that's beautiful ❤️

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

I bet Romania wouldn't try and steal that medal...

[@cmgangel777]

Why haven’t their a made a movie about her

[@CHRISFREE84]

Because she's black and she really didn't get the record deserves

[@CHRISFREE84]

I was in high school when this girl was doing her thing she was the best all around

[@magscovers8924]

I found a documentary about her, but a movie would be nice too. Racism probably played a role. Her coach said sponsors ignored her until she started competing in Europe. Then European companies wanted to sponsor her.

[@thespadestable]

@@CHRISFREE84 - So what you are saying is that black actors, rappers, singers, and athletes can't pool their money together and fund a movie?

[@CHRISFREE84]

@@thespadestable know why can't America make a movie about her? why do we have to pull together and make a movie she's a part of History so why can't they make a movie about her they make movie about dumb stuff so why not a part of History.. that's what I'm saying....

[@ultravioletmix33]

She is the real GOAT, hands down. With all the banned skills, today’s athletes are very limited in what they can showcase. How can you be considered the greatest when you’re only allowed to showcase a handful of moves?

[@carolynhoneycutt6960]

Awesome Dawsome!!!

[@adolphusjohns6313]

This young lady is excellent!

[@RielLady85]

I love her Boa Hancock finishing stance ❤️❤️❤️ .. You go Dominique 🥳

[@latoshabatiste6423]

ESPN Classics

[@kevinhunt7014]

They banned that tumbling routine and I believe that they did it cause this young black girl set the bar so high that nobody else could do that….Smh🤦🏽‍♂️

[@captainbryce1]

@@kevinhunt7014 They didn’t ban it, they just changed the rules in the CoP to remove all value from a tumbling line done immediately following a previous one. A gymnast could still do this move without penalty, but it receives ZERO credit and would most likely result in an artistry deduction. Also, Dominique Dawes was neither the first nor only gymnast to do back to back tumbling. I believe the devaluing has more to do with the scoring system change around 2006. Once they moved into an open scoring system, gymnasts were no longer limited by the 10.0 start value. This meant that gymnastics could just tumble “more” to get bonus points, and we started seeing people like Shawn Johnson do 5 tumbling passes in a routine. Not only does that turn the event into a tumbling competition, but it also de-emphasizes the role of choreography and the artistry was getting lost. In subsequent codes, they tried to correct this by limiting the maximum tumbling lines to four and eliminating back to back tumbling. The exact reasoning for the change was never explained publicly, but it was allowed long before Dominique Dawes showed up, and wasn’t devalued until after she retired. So it doesn’t make sense to say that they “banned it”, much less because of Dominique. This type of tumbling isn’t even considered to be as difficult as the skills that we’re seeing from gymnastics like Simone Biles or Jade Carey. It is a shame that we don’t see it anymore because it was very visually satisfying. Elena Shushunova kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqPNeWRtjq-Md6Msi=PcIa4fQux5bJgksB Oksana Omelianchik kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3EpGCuhN2Bpqssi=X-I1RD3jwAzIn2vy Olga Strazheva kzbin.info/www/bejne/nquugaB3irCdY7csi=59U6IEVFkQ_9kRCC Aurelia Dobre kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaXMh5iBpdmmkJosi=zdmKYFTXlYDbaqAt Daniela Silivas kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6vYmnmoma18ps0si=GYL4s56mmbS7ixyh Oksana Chusovitina kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2i8d31_h5uBjbMsi=d1eK5P-SdHKgecdt

[@kevinhunt7014]

@@captainbryce1 thank you so much for clearing that up.Makes sense 🫵🏾👏🏾🖐🏾

[@michelleb7399]

@@captainbryce1 Thanks! I knew I had the true explanation in my memory somewhere. Thanks for explaining it so well. So much has changed in gymnastics since those days, and for a lot of good reasons. But we can still miss these things. One thing that is great they quit doing was putting the gymnasts’ weights on screen to be judged. Look how little and thin the girls were at that time. If the system hadn’t changed as it did, we may never have seen Simone Biles soar as she does. She wouldn’t have been encouraged to be as muscular as she is, those tumbling passes that were so fun to watch were more about stamina than strength. They played well into at 86 lb teenager but what if Dominique Dawes were born into today’s gymnastics world? It would be a whole different set of expectations. I’m glad we had her then and we have Simone and her generation now.

[@deer9311]

Just in case no one knows this, this AMAZING floor routine was banned from gymnastics shortly afterwards

[@winnymarte4912]

Is the history for me… 👀

[@SHaqq-wv9hn]

OF COURSE it was. 🙄🙄🙄

[@exiuss26]

Why????

[@marlowelopez4230]

Y was it banned

[@marlowelopez4230]

Y was it banned

[@April-201]

10 !!!!!!!

[@kellyammirati3259]

Simone Should Play her in A movie ❤✨👑🔥!!

[@MammilariaElongataByVâniaLuz]

Lindamente

[@frankyluudy]

💜

[@antaraalexis9860]

La gazelle

[@noinhibitions7572]

Noone compares

[@MS-715-7Y]

Why hasn't Simone Biles done a double tumbling floor routine like that? Is DD the only one capable of doing this maneuver?

[@captainbryce1]

Back to back tumbling is no longer allowed in the rules for floor in the modern Code of Points. You are allowed up to 4 tumbling lines, and they cannot connect to each other. And no, Dawes is not the only gymnast who's ever done back to back tumbling, although she does have the most complicated sequence. It was first done by Oksana Omelianchik in the mid 80's and then later by Daniela Silivas (who was Dominique Dawes' favorite gymnast). Dawes took what they did and expanded upon it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3EpGCuhN2Bpqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6vYmnmoma18ps0

[@chocolateangel8743]

@@captainbryce1 I wonder why they changed the rules like that?

[@CHRISFREE84]

@@captainbryce1 you are somewhat right but it's just too dangerous that is dangerous to that is very hard to do so whoever does it they are a good strong powerful gymnast in very few people can do that because it's dangerous and it's hard to do

[@TheTimo5494]

@@captainbryce1 very true she wasn't the first but she made it famous around the world and that's how she got her fame. Literally remember being in spain 92 when she did her floor the crowd around us went nuts she really took the back to back passes to another level. Also the passes could be done but has to have a dance skill between the passes

[@shawtyred1511]

Because they banned it no gymnast can do it now

[@americanitalianisrael4008]

Dawes is 1 Million times better than Narcissistic Biles.

[@kevinhunt7014]

They banned that tumbling routine and I believe that they did it cause this young black girl set the bar so high that nobody else could do that….Smh🤦🏽‍♂️

[@pamelakimbrough6417]

❤

[@Super78406]

I think only Shannon Miller and Kim Zmeskal do that kid of routine

[@PhenixJoe]

Actually lots of the Romanians and Russians did similar back-to-back tumbling passes in those day, plenty white 🤡 . These passes aren't all that difficult.

[@brandonbrown1916]

They didn't ban it, the COP just changed and stopped giving it the bonus it had back then.

[@captainbryce1]

@@PhenixJoeAs Tim mentioned in the video, nobody did it quite like this. Oksana Omelianchik was one of the pioneers of back to back tumbling, but Dominique did the most difficult back-back-sequence in gymnastics, first linking it with a double somersault, and then later combining 6 acro elements together. Daniela Silivas had a similar sequence in 1987, and she was the first to use the technique of walking out of the punch front (which Dominique does). But Dominique sequence was still much more difficult. And no, it was not easy (which is why very few have ever done it). The reason it was banned is because they wanted to reduce the time spent tumbling in the routine and devote more to the artistic/dance portion. So no, gymnasts have to earn difficulty using double flipping elements and dance/jump elements rather than combinations.