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Long Term Athlete Development Model / TT4L 1 TABLE TENNIS CANADA LONG TERM ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT MODEL TABLE TENNIS 4 LIFE CONTENTS Overview ....................................................................................... 4 Where are we now? ..................................................................... 4 President Letter Why do we need a LTP/AD plan? ................................................. 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Steering Committee: Why the need for change? ........................................................... 5 The document you are currently holding is the result of a multi-year process that Where do we want tobe in 2016–2020? ...................................... 6 Bob Westfall involved coaches, volunteers and staff from across Canada. The Canadian push for a Long LTP/AD Project Chair, Table Tennis Canada What is the LTP/AD Plan? ............................................................. 6 Term Athlete/Participant Development Model throughout all sports guided this process. Building the future on 8 pillars..................................................... 7 Tony Kiesenhofer Director General, Table Tennis Canada LTP/AD Stages of Table Tennis ...................................................... 7 As a ‘long-term’ president of Table Tennis Canada, whose term is coming to an end, I am 10 positive reasons for implementing the LTP/AD framework ..... 7 Marles Martins Head Coach, Table Tennis Canada happy to see this document completed. I appreciate the quality, the expertise and the Jean-Baptiste Bertrand enthusiasm that has gone into this product, and the potential that it has for changing 10 Key Factors Influencing LTP/AD ..................................... 8 Head Coach, Quebec Team table tennis in Canada into a better organized and more dynamic sport; not least the No. 1 The 15-Year Road .............................................................. 9 Dwayne Yachiw implementation of the ‘Plan’ described in this document has the power to produce No. 2 The Fundamentals............................................................ 9 Saskatchewan Table Tennis Association generations of world class table tennis athletes if provinces, clubs, coaches, parents No. 3 Specialization ................................................................... 10 Kevin Murphy and, of course, athletes cooperate in the execution of the Plan. No. 4 Developmental Age .......................................................... 10 Yukon Table Tennis Association No. 5 Trainability ....................................................................... 11 Rose Quan The implementation of the Model will touch on all aspects of Table Tennis Canada - Physical, Mental, Cognitive & Emotional Development .. 12 Alberta Table Tennis Association No. 6 competition and training, coaching education, officials education and the volunteer No. 7 Annual Training, Competition & Recovery Plan ............... 14 LTP/AD Advisor: leadership of the association which must be open to change and support change to No. 8 Calendar Planning for Competition .................................. 14 Charles Cardinal assist the implementation of the LTA/PD Model. No. 9 System Alignment & Integration ...................................... 15 No.10 Continuous Improvement ................................................ 15 We also thank the individuals who contributed with their ideas and comments: As with every new approach, there will be skeptics and people who will resist change. Bruce Burton Côme-Vincent Bernier Whenever I think of them I am reminded of the words of our ‘Sport Canada LTAD’ guide StaGES OF TABLE TENNIS .................................................... 16 Christian Foisy Enlong Wang who confronted skeptics with “We will outlast you!” Mariann Domonkos Norm Tang Active Start ............................................................................. 16 Dejan Papic Ron Edwards Fundamentals .......................................................................... 17 George Damianov David Jackson In this spirit I wish us courage and strength in our quest to bring table tennis in Canada Learning to Train ...................................................................... 18 Jan Leporis Mustapha Erbas to a higher level. Rémi Tremblay Amelia Ho Training To Train ....................................................................... 19 Joseph Chan (AB) Lian Yi Li Training To Compete................................................................. 19 Joseph Chan (SK) Chandra Madhosingh To those who have worked on putting this document together, I say ‘well done.’ Learning To Win ...................................................................... 20 Erica Ans GuoXi Su To those who will use this document as their plan, their guide and their inspiration, Anson Bispham Living To Win ........................................................................... 22 I wish you every success. Murray Sproule Photos Courtesy of: Active for Life .......................................................................... 23 Junya Chen Mariann Domonkos Brian Ash Canadian Paralympic Sincerely, Committee Mitchell Rothfleisch H. Bruce Burton PODIUM BOUND: The Future of Canadian Table Tennis! .... 24 Yong Jiang Liu President, TTCAN Appendix 1 ...................................................................................... 28 Table Tennis Canada 18 Louisa Street, Suite 230 Appendix 2 ...................................................................................... 36 Ottawa, ON K1R 6Y6 E-mail: [email protected] Glossary of Terms ............................................................................ 38 Phone: (613)-733-6272 Fax: (613)-733-7279 Table Tennis Canada Long Term Athlete Development Model / TT4L 4 5 OVERVIEW Coaches: in well developed table tennis countries in Europe Where are we now? As with table tennis players in Canada, many of the coaches in Canada or Asia where access to high level training partners have acquired their expertise elsewhere and brought this ‘free capital’ and competition is considerably easier than in In 2010 Canada places in the mid 30s as immigrants with them to Canada. While this situation is not without its difficulties, the knowledge and expertise immigrant coaches bring North America. on the ITTF World Team Ranking list with to the system has raised the standard of Canadian table tennis Between 2003 and 2010, Canadian considerably. a new generation of athletes. As a result, Canada has higher and better coaching expertise than Why the need for change? junior athletes won medals at the most countries with a comparable population. Domestically, Canadian table tennis has a national The need for LTP/AD arises from a lack of a competition system with 5-6 national competitions World Junior Championships, the funded Canadian model for the development (Canadian Championships, National Team Challenge World Cadet Challenge, the World Facilities/equipment: Such a model must extend and Canada Cup competitions). The current challenge Canada has no shortage of world class equipment due to a number of table tennis athletes. is to link the more or less developed provincial Junior Circuit Finals as well as in of programs associated with the national competition structure and from talent identification to a coordinated training and the international hosting policy. Training and competition facilities, competition model for highly motivated and talented competition structures with the national competition numerous World Junior Circuit events. however, are sub-par with very few exceptions. This is a reflection of system, e.g., create systems on the regional and a general sport infra-structure deficit which currently stands in the athletes; it includes aspects such as age appropriate provincial level. (The implementation of the LTP/AD way of fast progress in Canadian sport. training hours, training activities, competition model will provide a perfect opportunity to meet this frequency; coach competency, integrated support challenge head-on.) teams, life skill and time management education, etc. Sport Medicine & Sport Science: Training: in another country. These players provide an invaluable Access to Sport Medicine programs is available through the Canadian resource for Canadian developed players since they bring Sport Center structure. However, with the exception of the National A Center of Excellence structure is in a pilot phase. The quality and expertise with them and set high standards for Training Center and the Canadian National Team sport science is given National Training Centre (Ottawa) and a growing number of ‘home grown’ talent. little attention. 10 key factors influencing LTP/AD Centers/Clubs of Excellence are set to implement the LTAD model, e.g. school/training integration, full-time coaching, • The 15-year Road integrated support teams, etc. Parents: Why do we need a LTP/AD plan? • Fundamentals Only few parents see table tennis as a sport leading to a 6 to 12 years… When we think about what • Specialization National Competition System: professional career. With the predominance of professional sport in the media many parents have a difficult time imagining we want to achieve in 2016 or 2020, we must • Developmental age A continental competition structure is in the planning stages. a professional career in a sport that is all but absent from the • Trainability A national series of competitions – the Canada Cup – is planned Canadian media. find a way to translate (and surpass) the results to return after a one year