Jesus TELO: With the 52nd Blume Gran Canaria we round off the Olympic Year 2012!

Jesus Telo (right) with the government representive Felix Noda (Gran Canaria)

The Canary gymnastics functionary Jesus TELO, Jr., of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) is wellknown as the soulful ambassadors of the popular Blume Gran Canaria Festival.
Despite the eventful 2011 World Gym-year succeeded him and his team of the Canary Organizing Committee, even the 51st BLUME Gran Canaria Festival again in 2011 to have a hopeful on future-oriented "festival withheart" are.

New impulses - not only in the Canary Islands - he sat also internationally, together with German, Italian and Danish festival organizers, by the new "European GYM Festival Network" (EGF), the community chose to take more and more international operators.

GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL spoke with Jesus TELO ...:

Jesus TELO, jr. (Mitte) at the farewell reception of international guests
in the Real Club Nautico, 2011, December 3, in Las Palmas.

B L U M E - BALANCE 2011
After the final event of the 51st BLUME-FESTIVALS GYMmedia spoke with the chief-organizer Jesus TELO jr.:
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* GYMmedia -: How do you estimate your start in the second half of this traditional festivals, as to participation, content, the workshops a.s.o ?

Jesus TELO, tireless actor for the social values sport full-bodied and bustle of all generations

* Jesus TELO -: My impressions are promising, although it is currently around the word 'crisis' have written large, again, many groups from Europe to participate in the 51st International Gym-Festival BLUME GRAN Canaria can inspire 2011th
Over 700 participants from 14 countries, plus 300 from five islands of the Canarian archipelago - except the island of El Hierro, which are unfortunately still missing ... and more than 3,800 participants from the main island of Gran Canaria itself - that was another very good success, as a sign for the future, for the second half of the century-Gym Festival.

And what the 51st Festival involved in substance:
More than 34 events, spread over six locations in the island of Gran Canaria, provided an excellent obstacle course for all assets!
Overall, therefore, again more than 1,000 assets in the sporting events participated with enthusiasm and indeed against wonderful and enthusiastic audience scenes!
Even the matinees of synchronized swimming and judo were particular highlights and showed the potential future for the youth.
Similarly, the tournaments of "mental gymnastics", Bridge and TeamGym were well staffed and the 12th time integrated.
In TeamGym we are already part of the European Cup system (5 events) and led for the third time for the Euro Cup TeamGym clubs in the categories of junior and senior. The bridge tournament with more than 125 participants in turn was an integral part of our winter events.
The continuous increase of participants in the 50 + range is a further welcome development since 2005. This area now offers more than 700 participants the opportunity to participate in our extensive program of workshops and demonstrations at the show, which again took place every evening in Maspalomas on two stages.
Highly qualified international instructors from 8 different countries enrich the variety of gymnastic and sports programs.
My special appreciation to the gym with disabilities, the 2011 again with 4 groups and a gym event in the capital of the island, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, simply deserve our admiration and outline their potential for our complex sport than gymnastics more vividly demonstrated.

GYMmedia -: As 50 years have taken effect on the Blume-festival Canaries themselves?
* J. TELO - : The development in the Canary Islands is actually positively sensational!. My father, Jesus Telo Nuñez sen. himself was over 35 years president of the Canary Gymnastics Federation and this historic structure favored an effective dissemination of the idea, did gymnastics until 1985 that a maximum of 8 groups in the Canary Islands and about 700 athletes.
Last 2011 total of 220 groups participated, 165 were from Gran Canaria alone! This is a development of gymnastics in Gran Canaria is just fantastic.
A further example is the 50-plus range, so the age range of the 'Golden Age': By 2000 we were able to report, unfortunately, not participants in this area, although since 1970, eg with the Malmöflikorna, BLUME Gran Canaria outstanding accents and impulses from the central European and Scandinavian countries continued, but the spark was not there really skip.
But today the area is more active seniors over 50 years of driving sports an integral part of our program with an increasing participation, the 2011 was at 350 activists from Gran Canaria even increased. "

More and more the sport and in everyday life of the Canarian population itself accepted, and often impressively in the form of folkloric elements of dance, like here in Maspalomas.

GYMmedia -: How do you evaluate the international response?
* J. TELO jr. -: The Festival BLUME Gran Canaria is now firmly anchored in the international gymnastics calendar. For 12 years we have supported the 'European Gymnastics Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL through the effective involvement in its daily news coverage on this website (> www.blume.grancanaria.org).
Evidence also provide numerous links to the European gymnastics federations and the International Gymnastics Federation(FIG) (http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,5187-188048-19728-44764-315406-18045-5233-layout188-205270-news-item,00.html) or also on ISCA - website (http://www.isca-web.org/english/events/blumegrancanaria)

Furthermore, we have in media partnership with GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL joined the 'European Gym Festival' (EGF) in a network (EGF) (> www.gymfestivals.eu) so you can take advantage of synergy effects together and share our experiences on this platform.
(* look at > http://www.isca-web.org/english/aboutisca/ournetworks0/gymnasticfestivalnetwork

Jesus TELO receives amplification by BLUME Ambassador Ronny Ziesmer (GER) (right) - for the second time as a guest of thr frstival - and he will continue to promote future BLUME Gran Canaria.

So, the international interest is also for efficient, global communication steadily growing, and: while Europe freezes in winter, there are pleasant, spring-like grounds, gymnastics outdoors in Gran Canaria to celebrate in a relaxed atmosphere, an event that groups of gymnasts ever remains in the memory stick!

Per argument: the 'low-cost' airlines' also have the distance down decisively.
Today is a low cost flight ticket from FrankfurtAirport to Gran Canaria cheaper than driving to 1x by train from Munich to Hamburg!
Don't forget that the distance is about 4 times as big!

Here locally we have requested the tourism associations, so that the groups provide good-quality 3-star hotels available, rather than the traditional 10-man - classrooms in schools.

In a comfortable double or triple rooms with private bathroom and shower the participants a whole new feel during their participation may be experiencing.
The accommodation has 24 hour security with private pool and short distance to the famous beach of Playa del Ingles.
Ergo: For the second half of the century of our BLUME-Gran Canaria Festival tradition, the course is set on optimism - as a "FESTIVAL WITH A HEART!
When we meet every year in Gran Canaria Group, informed the urns for over 20 years with us, then that means for our OK, that we continue to have very close with us ....!

* GYMmedia - : And what about the invitation to the 52nd Festival?
* Jesus TELO jr. -: The data for the 52nd International BLUME GRAN CANARIA are fixed:
From 2012 November 23 to Dezember 01.
We will welcome all our national and international guests from over the world again!

* ... all on >> www.blume-grancanaria.org

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