Dom Gonzales is a 5'8" professional dunker from California who has spent the last several years competing at the professional level. He goes up off two feet from a right-left plant, his signature is the Snake Dunk, and he has built a deep trick bag while giving up close to a foot of height to most of the people he competes against.
That creativity traces back to his living room. He grew up obsessed with Russell Westbrook, Michael Jordan and fellow short king Nate Robinson, and had his older brothers Dante and Dane call out NBA players so he could recreate their signature dunks on a door hoop and a 7'6" rim. Eventually the brothers ran out of names to shout. That is the moment he started inventing dunks instead of copying them, and it is the reason his bag looks the way it does now.
He landed his first ten foot dunk at sixteen on a 37" vertical, built almost entirely from years of low rim volume rather than any structured jump program. The structure came later, after a direct message from Isaiah Rivera pulled him into THP Strength, and he climbed from there to a tested peak of 47".
He has since made his professional debut at a Sacramento Kings halftime, which is a long way from a door hoop, and has grown a following of more than 170,000 on Instagram off the back of dunks nobody his size is supposed to be doing. The short-king framing follows him everywhere, but the more useful framing is that the height is what forced the invention.