Jesus TELO RODRIGUEZ: "Achieved the most international BLUME...!"

Jesús TELO RODRIGUEZ, OC Chief BLUME Festival

More than 4,200 participants inclusive all the international guests from Europe and all ofer the world have participated in the annual gymnastics festival and nearly 1,000 of them were foreigners from 18 countries
After nine days in which gymnastics has spread throughout the island, the BLUME GRAN CANARIA FESTIVAL, with all our events, competitons and shows and friendly meetings of all the delegations which has been performing since 1960, ends now its 57^th edition 2017.
Once again, this marks the end of a great celebration of the joie de vivre and active shaping of everyday life ...

Right in the middle there instead of just! OK boss Jesus Telo Rodriguez loves precisely such pictures: cheering people of all generations, playing sports together, having fun and being sociable and having an international flair: "... that's exactly the special FLOWER atmosphere"!

Jesús TELO said in a balance of the this year's festival:
"More than 4,200 participants from all over the world have participated in the 32 festivals and 35 international workshops developed in nine municipalities, one more than last year.

Workshops are also increasingly being adopted by the local population
- this is one of the core ideas of the festival idea!

That, precisely, is one of the barriers that has managed to overcome in 2017: reach more locations with the aim of giving an impulse to gymnastics in all its disciplines.
This year Santa Lucia de Tirajana has joined. Before there were already Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, San Bartolome de Tirajana, Mogán, Agüimes, Ingenio, Santa Brígida, Arucas and Telde. But that has not been the only milestone achieved. BLUME GRAN CANARIA has also managed to reach nearly thousand foreign participants, specifically, 965 from 18 different countries, the largest international presence in history, so it could be compared, in terms of numbers, to a European Championship.

Whether on the show stage or at the International BLUME Cup:
This festival manages the balancing act between popular sport, fun and challenging
competitive sport like no other! Chapeau !!
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Youth power in Arucas: The girls of the group of "Academia de baile Mejor Nailando"
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Tribute to the local Spanish hero Joaquín Blume
Because the idea of setting up a gymnastics festival in Gran Canaria came from my father, Jesús Telo Sr., in homage to our European Champion gymnast, Joaquín Blume, who died in a plane crash in 1959 with his wife and the rest of the Spanish team.
After the national tragedy, he ended up bringing to Gran Canaria what he had already spoken with the European champion in 1957 in Paris. He fulfilled his promise the year after his death and has lasted until today.

The dynamic generation of "Golden Age"!
Another of the achievements of this new edition of BLUME GRAN CANARIA has been a high participation in the segment of people over 50 years:

BLUME Gala Santa Brigida de Gran Canaria: Sport makes tired men cheerful and mercurial!

About 700 at the "best age" of 50+ years ...!
In addition to them, approximately 1,300 people outside from Gran Canaria and the rest of the islands of the Canary Islands have been present in the international event. The festival has allowed all of them to participate in gymnastics shows, championships and international workshops with the objective that trainers and instructors from different countries could exchange their knowledge, especially in terms of different gymnastic techniques.

As every last week of the month of yaerly November,
the BLUME GRAN CANARIA FESTIVAL will return again next year from
2018 November 23 to December 01, with the aim of reaching more corners of the island and having even more participants from around the world.
All the best ...
Jesús Telo Rodríguez
OC BLUME GRAN CANARIA

(C) All photos from BLUME-GRAN CANARIA 2017 on the gallery of our → GYMmedia Photographer Achim Schaefer