18. November 2010  
Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria  
Happy Gymnastics

Arriving day: Also a lot of Newcomers visit the Island ...

Blume-Organisator Enrique Fischer bei der T-Shirt-Ausgabe an die italienische Gruppe


<< A.S.D. "EXPRI" NOGETO, so is called the Italian club which will participate the first time with 14 girls and four trainers.
Their highlight will be the participation on Friday at the sixth European TEAM GYM cup competition, but they had also stated interest in the synchronous swimming which is planned for Saturday...

Also to Japan it has got about that the "island of the eternal spring" is the Mecca for people hungry for movement at all age during November.

Such a big group of 38 Japanese has never come along in the 50-year-old history of the festival, also Australia will be represented....

Nuria, presents her own designed Blume Flyer
... and brings orderliness into the chaos ...

The Blume organisation starts...
________________________________
The first day is always a little chaotic ...:

Information materials must be checked, be ordered and be distributed, the arriving delegations at the hotel "Beverly Park" accommodated, thousands of questions has to be answered.

The fashion design student Nuria Fischer (photo, right) from Hamburg proves herself well already on her first day.
The daughter of the Blume organisation head Jesus Telo had also taken over the graphic creation of the Festival Flyers, which are now to bring logistically in the thousands hands of all festival participants...

She did it with a big patience and in a cool manner!

Jürgen Klughammer, working hard to manage all the logistic problems ...

<< Supervisor Jürgen Klughammer from the Pfalz (Germany) is somehow the "good soul" of the Blume organisation.

Even if the organisation is sometimes a bit confused - up to now each of the Blume participants of the last 20 years had clearing answers from him:
"Our Jürgen mostly finds for everything a solution", - so the praise of the Spanish host Jesus Telo.

Flower grain Canaria - this is same also a logistic challenge!

Not only the international guests because of who come this time from 13 countries as well as from the Spanish mainland, but also because of the integration of tausender participants of all Canary islands.
All together more than 6,000 actors are on nine event days during 27 events plus 34 Workshops at 15 different event places on the island in action.

Prof. Detlef Schmidt, Bärbel Schöttler planing all the workshop activities

On the top of the  Organizing  team "Workshops" of the Blume festival is formed by the German event pros Bärbel Schöttler, former DTB-Bundesfachwartin "older people" and current member of the regional gymnastic committee "old people" in the gymnast's alliance from Lower Saxony and Prof. Dr. Detlef Schmidt (Saxon gymnastic association).

On offer 34 different Workshops, from "A" are like Aqua gymnastics, about Japanese Ninja gymnastics, tendons and bone Qigong, up to "Z", how Zumba fitness.
This is given by international experienced Workshopleiter from Spain, Japan, Columbien, Denmark and Germany.

That's alone is one of the main reason to make a special journey and a special active holiday at the "Island of Eternal Spring", here on Cran Canaria.
* Eckhard Herholz for GYMmedia from
Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria
* Translated by Nuria Fischer