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Coded Art - Glorious Sport
Ballet lover Wendy Yu became a street artist, using creative coding to devise her mesmerising projects. Glorious talks to the multi-tasker about how she works By Ashleigh Kane 18/02/22 In Australian artist Wendy Yu’s world, dancers are larger-than-life, floating twenty feet above the ground. Their movements spill down the facades of buildings like water overflowing. Dancing on an infinite loop, it’s poetry in motion.
How to be a good friend to an Autistic person
Need to know You’ve probably seen a film or television show where an Autistic person is portrayed as a loner. And, while media representations aren’t always realistic, perhaps you have met someone like this in real life: they might be a colleague who avoids office social functions, a student who regularly eats lunch in the library, or an acquaintance who usually declines invitations to parties.
How to talk about sexual desires
Need to know We are inundated with ideas about what ‘great sex’ looks like. We see countless romantic movies featuring couples who are completely in rhythm with one another, who never need to discuss what they want, never misread each other’s sexual cues, never bump heads or act awkwardly. They just fall effortlessly into bed in a loving embrace – then cut to the scene where they smile up at the camera, basking in a warm sexual glow.
True Independence
“I am a work in progress.” In her own words, Paralympic athlete Hannah Cockroft recounts the highlights, lowlights and life lessons of a fruitful career By Hannah Cockroft Photography by James Cannon 07/01/22 As seven-time Paralympic Champion, twelve-time World Champion and World Record holder in the T34 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m in wheelchair racing, everyone expects me to recall one of these titles as my proudest achievement, but to me, my proudest achievement in life is my...
Winning Mindset - Glorious Sport
Niamh Emerson used her strength, focus and psychology studies to power through three months of rehab. Here’s how she turned things around By Dr Josephine Perry 30/07/21 Niamh Emerson should have been firing out those “I’m off to Tokyo” tweets, Instagramming her new GB kit and focusing on the final stages of competition preparation.
Winning Mindset - Glorious Sport
Niamh’s focus just on each event means she is also able to avoid getting swept up in how others are going, or in making comparisons. This focus only on yourself is another strategy that sport psychologists would advocate. “I’ve never once considered heptathlon to be a competition against other people, until the 800. When I think about heptathlon, it is so individual that I forget that it is even a competition.
Mhairi Maclennan: A Hero We Need
GB international runner Mhairi Maclennan not only leads the field in races – with her fight to ban abusive coaches, she’s also setting the pace for change By Kate Carter Illustration by Esme Harvey-Otway 23/07/21 “I’m a very obsessive individual,” says Mhairi Maclennan. “It’s kind of an all-or-nothing situation with me.
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