Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts
Meet Ezra Frech
"I was born like this. I can't change it. And when I play sports, I don't feel the difference."
A Floating Wheelchair
Port Philip Council launched floating beach wheelchairs and wheelchair-friendly beach matting at St Kilda Lifesaving Club on Saturday and Ms Lawrie-Jones was the first one in the water after the launch (literally via The Age).
"I'd come down to watch the waves, but I couldn't go in. It made me really sad. I was such a water baby when I was a kid. Dad and I used to go to the beach all the time.
It feels amazing. It brought back so many memories of being a kid. I'll be here all the time now, this is really going to change lives".
Amanda Lawrie-Jones
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photograph via Herald Sun
Adaptive Wheelchair Bowling Equipment
"The first piece of equipment that wheelchair bowlers can use is a ball ramp. Ball ramps are perfect for bowlers who have limited range of motion because they allow the user to easily control the ball’s release from their lap."
"An additional tool is the grip handle bowling ball. For wheelchair users, the grip handle allows for better power and easier control by allowing them to use a grip handle rather than finger holes. There are two parts to this special ball—a spring-loaded handle, and the bowling ball. "
"Finally, there are bowling ball pushers. These super simple tools give the bowler control over the force and the angle of their roll."
Via/More 1800 Wheelchair
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Image via Discount Ramps
The Unusual Football Field Project
"If we give importance to some useless space, in every area of our life, therw will not be such word as 'useless'".
"A Thai real estate developer has built four misshapen pitches in Khlong Toei, an extremely densely-populated area of the capital where the proliferation of high and low-rise apartments have left little space for parks or play areas. (...) The concept of the project, its creators said, was to transform irregularly-shaped areas into practical football fields that still allow fair play. Each pitch is painted brick-red and with markings in grey."
“This unusual football field has proven that designing outside boundaries can help foster creativity used to develop these useful spaces.” (The Guardian)
"Firm believers in the notion that "Space can change a life", the AP Thailand and CJ Worx team saw that this unused space had immense value and understood that a project that successfully utilised it would serve to strengthen the community and enhance relationships amongst those living within it. It was from this conviction that the Unusual Football Field project was born." (Design Indaba)
Vortrag in Graz: Fußball, Sexismus und Homophobie - eine unheilige Allianz
"Die EM hat gezeigt: Fußball ist ein Ort, an dem vieles möglich ist, was an anderen Orten als überwunden gilt." Mehr: LINK
Mit: Nikola Staritz, Hobbykickerin, Politikwissenschafterin (fairplay & malmoe)
Mittwoch 28.09.2016, 17:00 Uhr
Frauenservie Graz, Lendplatz 38
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Foto via Falter
Wochenende
Some wheelchair freestyle to make your weekend more beautiful. Enjoy!
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29 July 2016
The Right to Wind In your Hair
"We are all heading on the same path that our grandparents were on. It is an inevitable journey of life. Cycling Without Age reminds us of that relationship with our elders and on our five guiding principles that we abide by.
It starts with the simple act of generosity. Give our time to them when they gave us their care and time. There are a lot of stories to be shared through storytelling from our elders, but also from us. They want to listen to us too and through this bridge we form relationships. We take our time, and the act of cycling slowly helps us take in the experience and appreciate it. Without age is the principle of how life does not end at a given age, but instead we can embrace what each generation has to offer through something as simple as cycling."
"Cycling Without Age is a movement started in 2012 by Ole Kassow. Ole wanted to help the elderly get back on their bicycles, but he had to find a solution to their limited mobility. The answer was a rickshaw and he started offering free bike rides to the local nursing home residents.
He then got in touch with a civil society consultant, Dorthe Pedersen, at the municipality of Copenhagen (now Cycling Without Age), who was intrigued by the idea and together they bought the first 5 rickshaws and launched Cycling Without Age, which has now spread to all corners of Denmark, and has now spread to Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Singapore, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, Slovakia, Netherlands, France and Chile – and it’s now taking off in several more countries around the world.
Volunteers (pilots) sign up for bike rides with the elderly through a simple booking system as often or as rarely as they want to. It’s all driven by people’s own motivation. At present (November 2015) more than 63 of Denmark’s 98 municipalities offer Cycling Without Age from well over 400 rickshaws – and the numbers are still growing. More than 3,000 pilots ensure that the elderly get out of their nursing homes, out on the bikes to enjoy the fresh air and the community around them. They give them the right to wind in their hair."
Via/More: Cycling Without Age
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Photograph via changemakers
Wochenende
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Photo via/more @ scubadivingadvice.org (courtesy of the respective owner)
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