#sui lu

[gymfanconfessions]

“i love the way sui lu connects her L turn to full turn”

[woodwind-sensei]

Really thinking about it, my Holy Trinity of floor exercise routines is Sui Lu 2011, Aly Raisman 2015-16, Sandra Izbasa 2008.

[anna-pavlova]

a gymnast that’s a mixture of he kexin’s vt/ub and sui lu’s bb/fx would make china’s best aaer to date

[illyria-and-her-pet]

The BEST Chinese WAG Floor Choreography EVER

Yang Bo 1992

Mo Huilan 1995

Meng Fei 1997

Liu Xuan 2000

Yang Yun 2000

Cheng Fei 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ew2fY-qAU

Pang Panpan 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8igmXnsE0

Jiang Yuyuan 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7zX3VFu9M

Sui Lu 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZUiqtfZGY

Liu Tingting 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnE3OnFCyII

[dear-aliya-count-me-in]

quaRoutines (12/?)

perhaps time for my unpopular opinion, but Sui Lu should’ve walked away from this world championships with two gold medals, one in beam AND floor. This routine was near perfect. Both she and Afanasyeva performed great, great chorepgraphy with the same 6.1 d score and to me Lu was just a bit better. Her turns were outstanding, particularly the Gomez,which was completely mesmerizing. If you watch Ksenia’s routine, she cheats her turns a bit and for me, Sui Lu had better landings. The whip triple stag jump was remarkable and still gives me chills

[queen-chengfei]

Beam Routines of the Decade—as voted by the gymternet

Single vote entries:

The Results are in! Here are your favorite beam routines of the decade, as voted by the gymternet! All links and descriptions under the cut!

1. Sui Lu (CHN)—2011 Worlds EF (33 votes) Difficult acro and dance with textbook form and extension—powerful yet light beam work. One of the best Grigoras’s (front tuck ½) in the business on full display here, and ends a near-perfect routine with a stuck double pike. Her gold-winning routine received the highest international beam score of the 09-12 quad. in summary, stan sui lu.

2. Sanne Wevers (NED)—2016 Olympics EF (21 votes) Unique and unusual routine construction heavily reliant on dance elements like her eponymous skill (double L turn), plus long dance connections. The first Dutch female gymnast to become an individual Olympic champion.

3. Liu Tingting (CHN)—2018 Worlds EF (14 votes) Classic long lines, amazing leaps/jumps, perfect example of how to maximize the connection-favoring 2017-20 beam code.

4. Ana Porgras (ROU)—2010 Worlds EF (9 votes) Remember when Romania was great? Me too. Porgras had a short career (I crey evrytim), but thank god she won a beam gold because she deserved it. Gorgeous bhs+bhs+layout to 2 feet, great height and flexibility on the switch ring, fluid and graceful rhythm, and just a great example of the best that Romanian beam has to offer.

4. Ou Yushan (CHN)—2019 Chinese Jr. Nationals EF (9 votes) 04 junior but doesn’t stop us from stanning her too early. Graceful, slow but steady rhythm, insane form (that toepoint!!), and creative and difficult connections.

6. Aliya Mustafina (RUS)—2013 Worlds EF (8 votes) Aliya has a bit of a reputation for hilarious beam inconsistency now, but when she pulls it together like she did here, I start feeling faint like a southern belle in too-hot weather. Beautiful switch 1/2 to onodi, double turn, switch ring, a successful completion of her acro series, and fantastic eyeshadow to match her leo..... #JustAliyaThings

6. Li Qi (CHN)—2017 Chinese Nationals EF (8 votes) She might be plagued with injuries now, BUT WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE THIS ROUTINE. A certified beam queen, beautiful layout to 2 feet, the fastest connections you will ever see, plus a casually stuck triple twist dismount.

7. Catalina Ponor (ROU)—2017 Euros EF (6 votes) Ponor performed this winning routine in front of a Romanian home crowd in Cluj, and later retired that year, capping off an illustrious career stretching back to 2003. One of the greatest Romanian beamers ever.

Her 2012 Olympic TF routine also received 1 vote.

8. Mariya Livchikova (UKR)—2011 Ghent EF (2 votes) WE LOVE BEAUTIFUL HEADCASE BEAMERS. Super difficult front aerial+front tuck series, and awesome Arabian straight out of a split handstand.

These routines all received 1 vote

Elena Gerasimova (RUS)—2019 Junior Worlds EF The inaugural junior world beam champion! 03:57 timestamp is everyone’s  collective reaction to this routine.

Flavia Saraiva (BRA)—2019 Worlds QF Notes: The best ring elements in the world right now, no I don’t take criticism. Gorgeous bhs+bhs+layout flight series. Also, THAT EYESHADOW

Luo Huan (CHN)—2013 Chinese National Games TF Effortless beam from a young, tiny Luo Huan. Damn you Zhejiang coaches and damn you coach wang.

Larisa Iordache (ROU)— 2014 Worlds TF and 2014 Romanian Nationals routine RO+back tuck 1/1, triple twist dismount in her Worlds routine and overall great execution. Her Rom Nats routine is a bit rougher, but she casually has a layout, back tuck 1/1 AND a layout 1/1 all in one routine, and then casually ends the routine with a triple twist dismount. You know, just casual Lari things.

Andreea Munteanu (ROU)—2014 Avoine EF Beautiful back tuck 1/1, and beautiful style, leaps, acro, everything. Come back, please?

Simone Biles (USA) 2019 Worlds QF/EF: Very efficient routine construction, and eponymous double double dismount, the most difficult beam dismount ever and named after her at this comp. 2016 Pac Rims: Difficult acro including a barani—pretty much zero hesitations, and ends with a near stick of her full in dismount.

Sarah Finnegan (USA)—2012 Olympic Trials Fantastic standing arabian and layout series!

[golden-china]

Day 50/65: Sui Lu I often forget about this routine (oops, sorry). It’s not as good as her 2011 routine, but it’s also really lovely. This was also her first medal at a World Championships.

[flaviasrings]

day 10: suni lu (chn) floor event finals at the 2011 world championships in tokyo.

score: 15.066 (6.1, 8.966) (SILVER)

why i chose this routine: everyone says “oh sui lu the beam queen.” NO. it is “sui lu THE QUEEN”. this was gorgeous, she literally floats across the floor. absolutely nothing is wrong with this routine i swear. this was so freaking good and i miss her so much