Of course, kids are kids and they play around in places like this. At the gym I visited in Maple Grove, Ninjas United, there are pads everywhere and coaches and spotters everywhere.
“You see we have an $800 mat called the Cloud Mat, and it's amazing,” co-owner Chris Vogt said.
His wife, Jen, who owns the gym, said she has noticed that teens are more prone to sprains and strains because of the need to warm up. “But they remember when they were kids, when they didn't have to warm up yet,” she said. “So some people are a little bit more relaxed during the warm-up, whereas they have to be a little more focused during the warm-up.”
Last week, several readers responded to my column about the dramatic and ignominious end of Bremer Bank, a veteran St. Paul financial institution that sold to Indiana-based Old National, and the bank's beginnings. was equally dramatic, he said.
Before founding the bank and the charitable foundation that owned it, Otto Bremer and his brother Adolf took over the Schmidt Brewing Company from its founder, Jacob Schmidt, in 1911. They built it into one of the largest churches in the country by 1920, when Prohibition began. Throughout the 1920s, Otto began buying up banks, and when the Great Depression began, he “pledged every asset he owned” to keep the banks afloat.
According to his 1951 article in the Star Tribune, this included stock in “Eastern Banks.” “Eastern's shares were lost in the sale due to his inability to provide additional margin due to the market decline,” the obituary states.
