Dominique Dawes - 1997 Women's Professional Championships Day 2 - Floor Exercise

[Gvieto]

Kid Dynamite.

[Mikizzle15]

@Elemarth Totally agree, but I think she was injured. Plus she was at the "semi-retirement" stage in her career. If I'm not mistaken she had just ended her run with "Grease" on Broadway and was going to school to take some classes. So she hadn't been working out as much as she used to.

[hellohey000]

omg 2:03 she landed on her toe.

[mylika22]

@hellohey000 no she landed on the ball of her foot so she didnt hurt her ankle any worse but i see y it would look like it was her toe lol :D

[shonjw]

This was the perfect song for her! I love her...I'm still trying to meet her lol.

[michneyy]

se went to my gym :D

[deshawnpenrose]

she looks fun

[megamanzeldalink]

she is my all-time favorite gymnest

[Molcinrocks]

She was a true Goddess and still is today. Queen Dominique, I would gladly bow down ad Kiss Your Feet!!!!!!!!

[miamivicepastels83]

she has incredibly high jumps

[outkast1914]

Man, she is smoking.

Wow.

[largec]

Great athlete, but damn she couldn't dance if her life depended on it. She should've took some dance classes throughout her career cause she dances like a true white girl completely off beat with no rhythm.

[stingstungme]

Her dancing is fine. It is a gymnastics competion. The focus is on the gymnastic ability. What do you expect her to do just start booty shaking in the middle of the routine? Come on now!

[largec]

"Her dancing is fine!!!" please you must be a non dancer yourself if you actually think she can dance I wasn't take anything away from her gymnastic abilities she is a great athlete but whoever choreographed this routine for her ought to get shot and if your head wasn't so far up your butt you would clearly see that she has no rhythm hell she is completely off beat to the song what in the hell was she doing after the first tumbling pass the funky two step get real she's has no rhythm period.lol

[stingstungme]

You just want to see her shake her butt like Moceanu did down in Georgia. Tsk. tsk. :P

Seriously, if you want to see lack of rhythm in gymnastics then you need to watch the Romanians! lol

[largec]

All I'm saying is that for a african american girl I expected her to really show her sassy side it's a bit disgraceful to see an african chick dancing the way she did she looked extremely stiff.

[Mikizzle15]

Dominique herself has already said that she was more about power in tumbling and stuff, and that she didn't have any rhythm. She was on the Gayle King show talking about the Olympics last year and told Gayle that she didn't have any rhythm, and wasn't very graceful. And I'm black, and not all black people have rhythm and know how to dance, I absolutely HATE that stereotype.

[largec]

Romanians lack rhythm, well I see your lack of knowledge here I would advise you think again look up daniella silivas then you'll see who lacks real rythm.

[miamivicepastels83]

this is true, silivas used to let them have it back in the 80's...she had ballet quality dancing

[akademikn3rd82]

You've got to be obsessed with Dominique to trash her on every single on of her videos.

[largec]

Thats not necessarily true.(LOL...) I still respect her for what she has accomplished as a black women athlete.

[workouthrd]

I used to get VERY horny watching her perform, she has gorgeous!!! legs and is very cute.

[silverpooh24]

@workouthrd lol. Thank you for sharing that

[largec]

I got a question if someone can please answer the floor tumbling mat is that like a trampoline or something or do these gymnast just have unbelieveable leaping ability which allows them to tumble with such finesse.

[njb782]

It has springs, but it is no where near a trampoline. The gymnast has to be incredibly powerful regardless of the springs

[largec]

so can some of these gymnast do these routines lets say on grass or concrete ground just curious to know.

[njb782]

they prolly could do the non double rotating skills. But its less about the take off and more about the landing. Landing on the matted springs is "safe". No elite gymnast would feel the need to prove their power by stupidly performing on a hard surface.

[largec]

OKay Yea I agree(lol...) but there is a guy named stephen friend and he is actually doing some of these routines on the grass look it up on youtube it's pretty amazing.

[largec]

Type in double backflip on ground and it should come up.

[Mega916]

she is so damn sexy

[dzzz80]

I think her ankles were killing her. Either that or she was really tired.

[1CocaCola11]

That was terrific! :D

[largec]

Damn!!! that was really impressive!!!