Long Island native, Anastasia Pagonis, will compete in the 2024 Paralympic Games
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of reconstructing broken pottery by melding the pieces back together with a lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver or platinum.An act of re-creation, kintsugi transforms the seemingly shattered pieces into a new, artistic masterpiece.
I saw this years ago when, as an athletic trainer, I began training Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills, a quadruple amputee. Before working with Travis, I had never met an amputee in a traditional gym. Chuck Melton of Team United States is tackled during a training session ahead of the Wheelchair Rugby at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games, which are currently taking place.Why? I learned it was more than just the absence of adaptive training equipment.
And while a draft selection is a far cry from losing limbs, I knew I could offer something more profound and permanent than conventional training: kintsugi adapted for the adaptive athlete. The training program consists of honoring each individual’s journeys, working with a “tribe” of other athletes and showing up — because it’s good for them and it’s good for the tribe. Most importantly, we believe in our athletes until they believe in themselves.Adaptive athletic training mixed with kintsugi has changed the life of Brandi Fields, a multitalented athlete from Missouri. Brandi was shot multiple times by her stepfather, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down.
During the 2024 Paralympic Games, I urge you to watch adaptive athletes competing through the kintsugi lens. See the cracks as essential elements of the whole story. Use that kintsugi lens to view others not as broken vessels, but as masterpieces-in-progress.'Sopranos' star bashed by fans for posting photos of young Kamala Harris on Instagram: 'You're losing your sh-t'
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