"Where are BLUME international limits...?
... asks the Spanish Chief Organizer Jesús Telo Rodríguez:
About 1,050 foreign gymnasts from 65 groups and 20 different countries Amazing to welcome such numbers of foreign visitors every year. What is the secret? I think we substantiate our progress in 3 main pilars:
♦ First is the confidence for our gymnasts, that BLUME GRAN CANARIA takes place always during the last week of November and the program is established and our teams can planned their participation with enough time.
♦ Second are the excellent flight and direct connections with more than 40 European and African airports. Additionally the low cost and good quality flights have incorporated the economic option that makes for the teams easier to travel in big groups.
Once again, many groups and actors gathered for the final event in the large sports hall of the island's capital, Las Palmas. Before that there was a trampoline competition and many groups and delegations let their festival week end individually:
Walks and excursions in the mountains of the island of Gran Canaria were as popular as beach walks in the most beautiful summer weather on the sandy beach to the lighthouse in Meloneras, in front of the magical scenery of the dunes of Maspalomas.
And some clubs were traveling exclusively as holiday guests, who had viewed the many events as a spectator and could enjoy entertaining programs, such. B. also the Ueckermuende gymnastics club of 1861 ...
In addition to competitions in judo, trampoline gymnastics, team gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, the Spanish BLUME festival organizers have also included an international aerobics competition in their program since five years.
For the 5th time, the "Copa Internacional Aerobic" is already taking place in the large sports hall of the island's capital, Las Palmas.
In addition to participants from Gran Canaria itself, participants from the Cape Verde Islands, from the local Clube de Ginastica Acroart, as well as from Lanzarote are registered. From Germany, the group and individual starters of the aerobic center Halle / Sa. are registered, among of them the 24-time German champion Janka Daubner ..
As always, the BLUME Festival Week also includes an extensive offer for the "Best Ager", which is summarized in the fitness industry under "50+ ". For this particularly active group of dynamic seniors, BLUME offers variable workshop with imaginative content.
For example, the world's oldest competitive gymnast Johanna Quaas from Halle / Sa in Germyny took the opportunity to gradually regain her amazing ability in spite of her biceps tendon rupture in early November, and a few days after her 93rd birthday. Next she wanted to use the possibility of "aqua gymnastics" here in Maspalomas but also in the morning a normal "BLUME Day" day begins with actions for early risers:
♦ The sun in the morning is greeted with qigong ...
"Do what you love...!"
<< This T-shirt label could also be a motto of this lovable festival, as you can read this message also from the eyes of the children of the local club "Sataute", who demonstrated their love of movement full of fervor in the show of Santa Brigida de Gran Canaria.
As in this town, the most varied shows and galas were held in another 8 municipalities and also in the capital of the island, Las Palmas, in this BLUME festival week. The BLUME organizers from the capital club "Gimnasio Las Palmas" coordinated everything, sent various foreign programs to the event venues and there to the sports instructors, educators and many helpers put together everything for impressive events ...:
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* Die Show in Santa Brigida
From the very beginning on it has been part of the BLUME festival tradition of making offers for people with disabilities and effectively cultivating contacts in everyday life! So also the international guests and groups, such as the ladies of the club "Ariadne" from St. Petersburg (Russia), visited the disabled facilities "Ciudad San Juan de Dios" of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria again this year.
This special school - located on the mountains around Las Palmas, with stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean - is equipped with various departments for children and teens with partly severe disabilities, but also for special rehabilitation programs of young people with temporary residence ...
In the tourist center of Gran Canaria, in the YUMBO shopping mall of Maspalomas, the first evening of the show was eagerly awaited:
The term "MASPALOMAS NIGHT" has spread among the participants of the BLUME festival for an attractive festival appearance, which is planned four times from Sunday evening to Wednesday, and is now an absolute highlight for the numerous tourists on the holiday island:
Where else do you get for "0 EURO" admission such a high-quality show program delivered:
So convinced for example the festival regulars from Great Britain of the "Scarborough GYM Club" (<photo, left) as savvy pyramid builders ...