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Karate Canada's Long Term Athlete Development www.karatebc.org $2.50 (complimentary to members) JOIN TODAY! traditional • recreational • competitive news Karate Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development by Kraig Devlin, Karate BC LTAD Chair, Karate Canada LTAD Chair Karate Canada’s Long Term Athlete IN THIS ISSUE 2010 Development (LTAD) Model is off WINTER and running with the release of the Karate Canada’s Development ........................1 Karate for Life (K4L) resource guide. President’s Message ...............................................2 This guide is the culmination of more than two years of work on the part Karate Kids Pushing for Foodbank ...............5 of Karate Canada’s LTAD Steering Canadian National Results .................................8 Group, who drew from expert sources Annual Recognition Awards ........................... 10 both inside and outside the karate Hall of Fame ............................................................ 10 world. Its primary purpose is to act as World Karate Seminar ...................................... 11 a guide to a practitioner’s development 2010 BC Winter Games .................................. 12 in karate through the stages of growth 2010 BC Team Season ...................................... 14 and maturation. Sato Sensei ............................................................... 15 It should be noted that the concepts Karate Kids Take Kyoto ...................................... 17 within the LTAD model are not aimed NCCP with Donna Gardecki ........................ 18 strictly at developing elite athletes. 1. Life has significant stages of devel- Sato Cup Returns for 2011 ............................ 19 Rather, they relate to doing the right opment including the transitions 37th Steveston Karate Tournament ........... 20 thing at the right time so that each from child to adolescent, adoles- child has the best chance of becoming cent to adult, and adult to senior. News In Brief .......................................................... 22 a physically literate and active adult. each stage in accompanied by ShotoCanada Summer Camp ....................... 23 In essence, LTAD can be distilled to changed capabilities. Karate BC Summer Intern .............................. 24 thirteen basic principles, These prin- ciples form the building blocks of any 2. For optimal development, sport participant-centered sport program programs must be designed for the and should inform any decision made stage of development and gender by sport associations with regard to of the participant. athletic programming. Continued on page 6 President’s Message 2010 BC Winter Games 2010 BC Team Season What do you want your The Opening Ceremonies of the The BC Team was proud to send provincial karate association BC Winter Games took place on a large delegation to the 2010 to do for you? We are entering the evening of March 4th. National Championships in our 37th year... Toronto, Ontario. I page 2 I page 12 I page 14 President’s Message What do you want your provincial karate 225 - 3820 Cessna Drive association to do for you? We are entering Richmond, BC V7B 0A2 our 37th year. t 604.333.3610 This question was the driving force behind a f 604.333.3612 recently held Strategic Planning Session sponsored e [email protected] by Karate BC. Members from around the province www.karatebc.org were brought in to share their hopes, concerns and wishes for their provincial association. To that end we sent invitations to over thirty-five of our members and once schedules were checked, conflicts EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dan Wallis, addressed and plans made, we were honoured to President: Dan Wallis Karate BC President have twenty-oNe attendees at the planning weekend. [email protected] In order to ensure we had input, if not physical 1st Vice-President: Rob Walker attendance, by many of Karate BC members, a survey was sent out to all karate [email protected] clubs soliciting as many opinions and ideas as possible. The twenty-three people 2nd Vice-President: Jason Farquharson met with facilitator Joanne Veltri and we reviewed the points raised and then [email protected] built a foundation document for YOUR provincial karate association. Secretary: Charles La Vertu This document, soon to be ratified by the Karate BC executive, will be the [email protected] first step to realizing what OUY want for YOUR karate association. Treasurer: Ken Corrigan The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to the Strategic Planning [email protected] Document 2010-2015 that was just completed in october, 2010. Membership: Andreas Kuntze [email protected] • Enhancing development and capacity in a provincial sport governing Director-At-Large: Rick Penner body (PSo) relies on five strategic pillars: a development-supporting [email protected] organization, athletes, coaches, officials and medical. Director-At-Large: Trevor Walmsley • The strength of a PSo does not rely solely on one or more of the strategic [email protected] pillars. It requires all of the pillars to work together to produce a unique sport infrastructure for the individual PSo. Simply, the sum is greater Newsletter Team than its parts. Editor: Adi Burton • Strategic planning is a necessary step toward improving the current Newsletter Committee: Charles La Vertu, Chair state of the organizational infrastructure as a whole. Bob Tuss, Executive Director • In october of 2010, 21 people came together to help craft the future Cheryl Gray, Executive Assistant direction of the association for the next five years. The participants Design: represented a mix of the five strategic pillars while also reflecting the Odette Hidalgo breadth of the provincial membership. Printing: Infigo Imaging • The group considered past successes, failure to reach pre-set 2010 goals, a complicated financial picture, as well as current environmental challenges in the decision-making process. Karate BC Affiliations: Karate Canada, • In order for participants to identify the best interests of KBC and gain a Pan-American Karate Federation, World planning platform for their own piece of the KBC strategic pie, the group Karate Federation, Sport BC, Canadian broke into five planning teams, each supporting one of the five strategic pillars. Sport Council, Coaching Association • The result of this new planning format was a plan that kept to basic of BC, The Canadian Olympic Association, elements due to the assumption that the organization would be able BC Recreation and Parks Association to rely on fewer grants and less funding. This led to the creation of a simpler, but more relevant, goal path and a realistic strategic plan that will take KBC through the next five years. Continued on page 3 Funded by the Ministry of Community, Sport & Cultural Development 2 Karate BC NEWS • WINTER 2010 Continued from page 2 So just what are some of the items that are being considered? MEMBERSHIP Plan: Develop and deliver a Tier Membership Program to encourage greater sport participation, increase revenue and drive membership into Karate BC over the next five years. BoD to identify the appropriate and relevant tier tactics from the following recommended categories: • Family rate • Elite • Recreational • Parents (supporter member) Karate BC, in order to best serve its mem- bership, must constantly be evaluating • Associate member what we have done, what we are doing, • Lifelong member and what we hope to be doing in the • Cross-training member immediate future in order to be relevant to the members. The just-concluded • University / College – student membership Planning Weekend attempted to meet Tournaments were cited as one of the association’s primary these objectives. I would like to thank promotional assets. With the success of the zone plan, they the following people for giving up their provide an excellent platform to leverage greater attention and Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday sport participation in markets outside the Lower Mainland. to help their Karate Association: a) Rotate a tournament to different zones starting in the 2012 Akira Sato (Technical Committee Chair) competition season. Paul Sexton (Officials Committee) b) Strengthen the tournament environment through various event Mike Ditson (Assistant Coach) management adjustments in KBC competition. Rick Penner (Director-at-Large, High Performance Chair) Improve KBC Competition Scheduling Rodney Hobson (Zone 2 Rep) a. Prepare a competition review for the BoD that identifies and Elizabeth Winjstra (Officials rationalizes participation, location, and time period for the Committee Chair) elite focus/BC Team selection tournament. Sandeep Gill (Head Coach) Keith Whittle (Steveston Karate b. Identify and rationalize the pathway for Karate BC’s second Tournament) tournament event . Nicole Poirier (Assistant Coach) Andreas Kuntze (Membership Director, c. Competition review outcome: an enhanced tournament pathway with Tournament Director) precise identification of a suitable segment to best strengthen the Trevor Walmsey (Director-at-Large) overall tournament experience, and drive recreational membership Roy Tippenhauer (Karate Canada determined from the following recommended segments: Board Member) • Youth only Robert Walker (1st Vice President) • Weapons Dan Wallis (President) Tanya Hickman (Zone 7 Rep) • university Cup Al Belanger (Parent) • Dojo Cup Jason Farquharson (2nd Vice-President) Ken Corrigan (Treasurer) Peter Stoddart (Professional Karate Instructor) KBC harmonizes its competitive structures to Cheryl Gray (Executive Assistant) achieve relevant LTAD objectives.
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