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[buffbodz]

 
 Arnold Sports Festival Newsletter A Weekend of Sports, A Lifetime of Fitness   
 
Hyatt Regency Ballroom to Showcase Two Days of Elite Youth Dance Performers March 3 & 4, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio
Sam Sodano’s world-wide recognition as the leading promoter of dance in the United States is unrivaled. As the former North American Latin Dance Champion, international dance industry icon, creator of PBS’s annually televised Ohio Star Ball, Co-Chair of the Arthur Murray International Dance Board, recipient of the Professional Lifetime Achievement Award, Worldwide Adjudicator, and the 1998 Can-Am DanceSport Special Achievement Award recipient, Sodano has the led the industry to the popularity ballroom dance enjoys today. The Arnold Sports Festival was thrilled to welcome Sodano just a few years ago in 2005 as the Director of the Arnold Sports Festival’s Annual Arnold Juvenile, Junior, Youth and Collegiate DanceSport Classic. Now in its third year, the 2007 Arnold Youth DanceSport event also will present an international youth couple dance competition featuring the top 14 youth dancesport couples from the United States vs. Canada’s top 14 couples. The event promises breathtaking costumes, inspirational performances, and elegant music. Youngsters will compete in the Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba, Paso Doble', and Jive.

Sam Sodano’s partner in the event presentation is the legendary Bill Sparks, one of the world’s leading Latin Dance champions and a top national adjudicator who also Spearheads the movement in youth dancesport at his Columbus, Ohio Youth DanceSport Academy.

Youth DanceSport is widely recognized as a leading exercise style that incorporates significant mastery of posture, presentation, total body coordination, costuming, physical endurance, and great fun. It offers young boys and girls an opportunity to be mutually engaged in activity that is comfortable and stylistic. The event annually attracts a packed audience who have come to enjoy this oasis of glamour within the Arnold Sports Festival.

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What's this all about and why at a bodybuilding weekend?  I can see Boxing, wrestling, strength events, but this?  Why?

[Tre]

What's this all about and why at a bodybuilding weekend?  I can see Boxing, wrestling, strength events, but this?  Why?

Because, in the Big Picture, that's the sort of stuff that helps to fund bodybuilding.

[onlyme]

In order to get a greatter mix of people to come to the show you have to provide a wide variety of events.  Having the kid stuff brings parents.  WHenever something brings in more people that is good.  WIthout this other stuff happening the Arnold would just be a boring event. 

[lifterguy]

Notice that it's now called the "Arnold Sports Festival and Fitness Weekend" - bodybuilding isn't in the title.  This event now attracts well over 50-thousand people, and having been there the past few years, I think it's safe to say the majority of them are not there for the bodybuilding.  The number of events they have going on in and around the Columbus Convention Center and Nationwide Arena is pretty amazing.  But even if bodybuilding no longer gets headline billing, it still is, arguably, the best bodybuilding show and expo in the U.S. and it is growing every year.  Expanding it to include a variety of events and activities has allowed the Arnold to expand and prosper while shows like the Mr. Olympia are foundering.

[Eyeball Chambers]

Why do they have the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio of all places?

[dzulboy]

Why do they have the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio of all places?

i think thats where arnold got his start in  america   at first