Video: Underwater Paralympics. Sue Austin Artistic Wheelchair Swimming
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People with disabilities in terms of movement are no less than healthy people, or even more of them go to explore the world, to discover new horizons for themselves. It was in support of these aspirations of theirs that the artist came forward Sue Austin, herself for many years chained to wheelchair.
In our time, society has ceased to ignore disabled people and, on the contrary, is trying to socialize as much as possible, to make them full-fledged individuals who have every opportunity for self-realization. An example of this is special programs for the training and employment of people with disabilities, as well as special Olympic Games for all kinds of people with disabilities.
In order to once again prove that disabled people have no less right to accomplishments than healthy people, the artist Sue Austin performs her unusual actions. She chose underwater spaces as a place for her own creativity.
Having lost the ability to walk in 1996, Sue Austin ordered a special wheelchair several years ago, with which you can go diving. Moreover, the artist took the most direct part in the development and creation of this unusual means of individual transportation.
Diving underwater, Sue Austin does not just swim back and forth, she tries to perform a variety of tricks at depth, combining elements of dance, acrobatics, skydiving and many other extreme, mobile disciplines in her movements.
In this way, she tries to show that people with disabilities are, in fact, limited by psychological obstacles that, if desired, can be overcome.
Sue Austin calls her underwater performances "Creating the Spectacle!" She travels with them around the world, plunging under the water in a special chair, twisting somersaults there, and inspiring disabled people from different countries to strive for a more active life position.
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