Sunday: BLUME-Festival, Opening Gala - lively, folksy, colorful!

The first pyramid of the Blume week ere built by the 'Charlies Angels' from Mid Sutton, Ireland

It was, as it is always: Happy Faces expectancy, bus direction Corso to the Jumbo shopping center of Maspalomas and hundreds of contributors organized before the opening gala evening of the 51st BLUME Gran Canaria Festival 2011, a tingling feeling, as one usually reserved for large knows gymnastics and sports celebrations.
Abolute always radiating calm and serenity, acting chief organizer Jesus TELO Jr. and then out totally cool, if for various logistical reasons, the air burns the right times.
But he has a proven team at his side, which can deal with "incidents" of any kind, and were still found solutions of an operational nature.
Were very impressed and again especially in the Canary Islands regional representatives from the mayor to the bravery of which have long been the social value of this event is so important long understood ...

OPENING GALA 2011 - a mix of international sporting temperament and folkloric island culture

The first festival of the second half of the century was opened by short speeches by the BLUME-organizer Jesus TELO Jr., the association supports the idea of the festival, which took Gimnasio Las Palmas.:
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He was succeeded by the head of the sports ministry of San Bartholome de Tirajana, Roberto Martel Quintana, in particular, underlined the progress made in the indigenous population, the growing perception in the last years and especially by the visibility of the festival idea of the value of their assets one and accept it..
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Jesus Telo, Ronny Ziesemer - since 2005 the German former top-gymnast works as a Blume ambassador.

BLUME-Ambassador Ronny Ziesmer brought greetings from the artistic gymnastics team from Germany and especially from the all-around Vice-world champion Philipp Boy.

As a special guest of the Spanish BLUME-Festival organizers gave a special invitation to Ronny Ziesmer, who had an accident in times of preparation of the 2004 Olympic Games and so it was his personally international journey in an wheel-chair, when Ronny visited the 2005 Blume Festival.
Since then, the now 31-year-old former world class gymnast also acts as a "BLUME-ambassador", and reported with its many international contacts from the special value of this tradition.
Now he returned again to the island of eternal spring!

Philipp Boy - the reigning Vice-World Champion - here 2004 as a 16 years old gymnast with his training group at the beach of Playa del Ingles.

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Seven years ago, at the Olympic year 2004, was the then 16-year-old German junior athlete Philipp BOY with his training group from the German Master Club "SC Cottbus" also a Blume-Festival participants, and excelled at that time among other things, double mini tramp.

When, on this Sunday evening Ronny Ziesmer made his opening speech at the Jumbo Centre, the now two-time all-around Vice- world champion Philipp Boy just in faraway Tokyo after the Japanese had won World Champion Kohei Uchimura the silver medal at the World Cup final ...
... so then close the circle of conceiving itself as a global community GYM gymnastics family, deliberately cultivated by
the festival of her Philosophy "doer", Jesus TELO.

Acrobatic temperament by the 'Charlies Angels' from the Irish Mid Sutton.

Multi-faceted diversity ...
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It's not that easy to bring the character of such a multi-cultural event on the stage, like this BLUME Festival - named after the four-time European artistic gymnastic champion of the late fifties, the Spaniard Joaquin BLUME -
... Blume Festival - that's absolutely more than sport !

Elements of dance and folklore of the older generation are more likely because of this, as the spirited youthful freshness of Scandinavian groups, the swirls on the floor mat and the packed audience Air Track ranks formally broke.

With the program was also a large group of Czech Republic.

There general gymnastics has already sense a great tradition. They thus represent the national 'Czech Association Sport for All' to include in the long flower festival regulars.

The agile Moderator pair Klaus WITTE and Spanish native speaker, Sonja Schurek - both from the North of Germany - the three languages taught variety of events.

Sporting highlights of the evening began including the acrobatic group from Mid Sutton, Ireland, the "Charlie's Angels".
Sparked great enthusiasm, the young men of the "Stag Gymnastics Club" from Norway with her floor routine, which is part of their competition program of the discipline TeamGym.

This is one of the best European groups and they was the winner of the 2010 Euro Cup circuit in TeamGym and had won also here the last yrears event in Las Palmas. This year the finished second.
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Overall, the 90-minute opening program with many facets of a successful mix diverse range of cultural movement, the pleasure was made on more during the Flower Festival week. * Report: Eckhard Herholz / GYMmedia