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Canadian LTAD Conference Report V1 19Jan2006 LTAD CONFERENCE: CANADIAN SPORT SHARING Holiday Inn, Gatineau Ottawa 16 – 17 January 2006 INTRODUCTION Richard Gordon (Scottish Swimming director of Coaching and Development) was invited to take part in and present to the LTAD Conference: Canadian Sport Sharing by Dr Istvan Balyi (world expert on LTAD). The purpose of this report is to outline the key discussion and findings from the conference. BACKGROUND On 5 August 2005 the Federal, Provincial and Territorial ministers with responsibility for sport in Canada announced the endorsement of LTAD as the way forward for Canadian Sport (Appendix I). Since this announcement a team of five experts have been pulled together to produce generic LTAD plans for able bodied (copy available on request) and disabled sport (copy available on request) in Canada and to advise and assist Canadian governing bodies to produce their own sports specific LTAD plans. The five experts are: • Dr Istvan Balyi (World LTAD expert and advisor to Pacific Sport Centre) • Richard Way (High Performance expert) • Charles Cardinal (former Volleyball National Coach and University Volleyball Coach) • Colin Higgs (Academic and expert in disability sport) • Steve Norris (Academic, Canadian Swimming Board member and high performance advisor to Canadian Skiing – first sport to produce LTAD plan in 1997) The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA), following an invitation from Sport England, worked with Dr Istvan Balyi in 2002/3 to produce the swimming LTAD plan. This was endorsed by British Swimming in 2003 and formally supported by Scottish Swimming in 2004. Since this time, both the ASA and Scottish Swimming have progressed to looking at ways of implementing the swimming LTAD framework through club development, teacher/coach education and the competition framework. OUTLINE OF THE CONFERENCE Approximately 15 delegates attended the two day conference. There were representatives of 47 Canadian governing bodies, several multi-sport agencies i.e. Canadian Commonwealth Games, Sport Canada and various disability bodies, and the Provincial and Territorial Governments. 30 sports are currently going through the LTAD planning process, which began in mid 2005, and it is planned for a further 15 supports to start the planning process. There is approximately $500,000 over three years for the planning process. Richard Gordon (Director of Coaching and Development) 1 It appears to be widely acknowledged that Canadian Sport is strong on planning, but weak on implementing these plans. The programme for the two days was as follows: • Day 1 - Welcome and Introduction - Sport Canada update - Richard Key: LTAD gathering momentum – progress so far - Sports reports – basketball, athletics, cycling, rowing, volleyball, swimming - Keith Tomlins (England and Wales Cricket Board): English Cricket’s LTAD plan - Sports reports – speed skating, snowboarding, diving. - Wrap up • Day 2 - Colin Higgs – No Accidental Champions (disability generic LTAD) - Donna Kaye (Athletics Canada): FUNdamentals – run, jump, throw programme - Either Istvan Balyi & Charles Cardinal: LTAD 101, starting the LTAD process, Or Group discussions on LTAD challenges and opportunities - Richard Gordon (Scottish Swimming): LTAD implementation - Feedback from Group discussions on LTAD challenges and opportunities - LTAD questions to expert panel - Wrap up GENERAL COMMENTS The conference was very well attended. There was a lot of enthusiasm and some excellent ideas being shared. There is much to be gained in bringing people together to share past or current experiences in implementing a project. The conference allowed me to meet a number of people without having to travel across Canada! The sheer size of Canada has often led to communication problems, however, the LTAD project is using a members/password protected website (www.sportsweb.ca) to good effect to share information, both within sports and between sports. This has reduced the amount of travel and helped to breakdown barriers. This is something that sportscotland or the Scottish Sports Association should provide for governing bodies in Scotland. Or it could be something that Scottish Swimming considers for clubs and/or local authorities. There was a very strong feeling that LTAD was the right way to go for Canadian sport. It appears that Sport Canada want to empower governing bodies, which have in the past been mandated by Sport Canada and the Canadian Government to deliver only high performance sport, to develop an LTAD framework that will achieve active lifestyles, increased participation and success in high performance sport. The generic LTAD framework is designed to assist system alignment so that there is greater integration of health and education with sport and physical activity. It was stressed by Sport Canada on a number of occasions that LTAD is something that the Federal and Provincial/Territorial politicians appear to understand, therefore it was regarded as a very powerful tool. Overall, LTAD planning in Britain appears to be at a more advanced stage than that of Canadian sport. However, within approximately 1 year this position is likely to change. There will be more sports with LTAD models in Canada than Britain. It should be noted Richard Gordon (Director of Coaching and Development) 2 that the LTAD planning process was led by Sport England and has been embraced positively by all of the sports council and Sportscoach UK, with the possible exception of sportscotland. Although it is supposed to be the foundation for the proposed Sports Partnerships (formerly Regional Sports Partnerships). There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the person leading LTAD planning in Scotland has, with a group of academics from Edinburgh University, tied to “sabotage” and “rubbish” LTAD. (This was stated to me in three separate conversations with three different people). Istvan Balyi reported to me that he was particularly upset that the Long Term Player Pathway document, produced by sportscotland, had copied extensively material that he had produced without any acknowledgement. Although he stated that he was committed to working with governing bodies in Scotland on the LTAD planning process, he would review this should there continue to be the same level of resistance. I believe that this would be to the detriment of those Scottish governing bodies that do not have a LTAD model or access to an English/British model. It was pleasing to note that British Swimming and Scottish Swimming appear to be ahead of the game in terms of the implementation of the UKCC and LTAD principles. Also the re- development of the Learn to Swim programme and Awards scheme, the redevelopment of SwimMark, the production of SwimGym and the proposed development of the SwimSkills programme. There are two areas that should be reviewed in future. These are the competition framework in Scotland and the relationship with disability swimming. SPORT CANADA The programme for the two days began with an address from Tom Scrimger (Director General, Sport Canada). He gave an update on the review of Sport Canada that is being undertaken internally. Sport Canada business from January 2006 will focus on the following five areas: • Policy and planning • Sport support • Sport excellence • Major games and hosting • Business orientation It appears that Sports Canada has suffered from constant reviews over the past 10-15 years. As part of the current review it is intended that some governing bodies will be able to go onto longer term funding i.e. 3-4 years cycle rather than the previous 1 year funding cycles. However, governing bodies through the Sport Funding and Accountability Framework will have to demonstrate that they have the necessary governance measures in place. The funding for the Canadian Sports Centres (0ne per province/territory) focusing on sports development and high performance sport is also subject to review and is linked to a review of high performance sport being undertaken by Dr Roger Jackson (Canadian Olympic Association). This has not yet been completed, but it is expected that there will be improved co-ordination and increased funding for high performance sport leading to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada and a Commonwealth Games bid for 2014. There was very strong support for the Canadian LTAD model of: • Active Start • FUNdamenatals Richard Gordon (Director of Coaching and Development) 3 • Learning to Train • Training to Train • Training to Compete • Training to Win • Active for Life. It is likely in future that Sport Canada will be directing funding to enable governing bodies and other organisations to deliver sports LTAD frameworks. LTAD PROGRESS SO FAR Richard Way, who is acting as Project Director outlined the progress that had been made to date: • 30 sports undertaking the LTAD planning and sport buy-in process, having received the LTAD 101 presentation. • 15 sports about to start the LTAD planning process and sport buy-in process, with the LTAD 101 presentation due to be made at the conference. SPORTS REPORTS Specific reports on progress were provided by Basketball, Athletics, Cycling, Rowing, Volleyball and Swimming. The reports focused on the process that was being undertaken to produce the sports specific LTAD models. The most interesting were Athletics and Swimming for different reasons. The presentation from athletics focused on how they were linking the LTAD process with the process of re-developing their National Coach Certification Programme (NCCP). It appears that the NCCP process came first with the LTAD following
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