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RECOGNITION FOR SPortsFunDer CABC SPonsors CoMMunitY CoaCHes NEW GAME STEP UP the information source for every coach Winter 2008 $3.95 CAN www.coaches.bc.ca Training Quality of Movement Video Analysis + Technology NCCP Course Check It Out: Schedule In Pursuit of Excellence Clipboard Coaching Notes Upcoming Events British Columbia Coach Profiles Coaches Week Recap from the editor’s desk It has been an eventful, exciting year at Coaches winter 2008 Association of BC. What a blast it has been! Mostly, it has been about the people - the brilliant colleagues I am privileged to work with, and the people across the province that are now more than just voices at the other end of the phone or e-mail. inside British Columbia Coaches Week was the conduit into getting us out to communities across the province to celebrate the people who put so much of their time and their hearts into sport. As I said - what a blast! I hope you enjoy the brief recap in this issue, plus all the photos and coach profiles. And I hope that many more of you will plan to get involved in Coaches Week 2008, which we are already planning for. Any and all ideas are welcome! The name “Dartfish” has become quite familiar in sports circles over the past few years, though many people don’t really understand what it’s all about. I know I didn’t. So it was interesting to research it for the article Hon. Stan Hagen, in this issue and to talk to coaches who have been Minister of Sport, using it or are planning to use it. Assumptions that the Tourism and the Arts reads the official technology is only for high performance athletes and/or Proclamation to launch wealthy sport organizations aren’t necessarily true. British Columbia Coaches Week Also in this issue is a really useful article from Steve Ramsbottom about the importance of correctness of on the cover movement. Steve’s credentials and his reputation as a top fitness/wellness/sports training expert are the Training Quality of Movement driving force behind the High Performance Institute in 10 Start training with the fundamentals Burnaby. He is also co-owner of Mobile Physique, which of movement delivers a mobile fitness trailer (with or without trainers) directly to clients. And a very interesting clientele it is! coaches clipboard 10 I hope you enjoy this issue of BC Coaches Perspective. And if you do, why not take the opportunity of the Coaching Notes, News Christmas Season to show the coach in your life how much you appreciate them. Buy them a CABC 4 and Views membership, and they will get their very own copy of the magazine four times a year (plus everything else that goes along with membership). To coin a phrase, it’s Check it out the gift that keeps on giving! 4 4 Merry Christmas to all! I look forward to talking with and a closer look meeting even more of you in the New Year. Drop by for a visit at our new digs in Richmond! British Columbia Coaches Week 8 Highlights from inaugural event Video Analysis Technology 14 Dartfish – not just for the elite athlete Jan Mansfield 8 your perspective Community Coach Recognition 15 Award Winners 18 Upcoming Events 19 NCCP Course Schedule 15 2 Perspective Winter 2008 executive director’s message SportsFunder lottery benefits amateur athletes The BC Lottery Corporation has seen the value of supporting amateur sport Recently there have been several articles in local newspapers funding that this lottery program generates that can be directed to commenting on the new SportsFunder lottery game offering participants the chance amateur sport in BC, lucky us! to win seats to the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Some Lotteries have become a regular part of our culture and they will not be of these comments have not been too positive. I take a different view. going away any time soon. The fact that There are numerous may seem like ‘leftovers’ to some, it is amateur sport can benefit from these lottery games in BC a significant contribution to the sport proceeds is an opportunity we cannot that an individual community in the province. afford to turn down. Until some other may indulge in Attracting large corporate funding benefactor sees the benefit of supporting that have some to amateur sport in this province has our young athletes and coaches, we will form of incentive consistently been a challenge. The BC never come close to reaching the level or reward. Lottery Corporation, however, has seen of financial support needed to help BC They all have the value of supporting amateur sport athletes realize their dreams. Sport costs some winners, but in BC, and how supporting youth in money, and having our BC athletes on many more losers. The difference in their pursuit of athletic opportunities international podiums costs even more the SportsFunder lottery program is contributes to the development of money. We will take what is offered to that there are those small numbers of healthy and confident young adults. us. We will also continue to ask for more, winners who may be direct recipients Sport is consistently identified as and hope that one day our country, as a of a financial reward, but there are also one of the most effective avenues for collective, will view sport not as a ‘nice thousands of other individuals who are keeping young adults focused on thing to do’, but as a foundation for a indirect winners of the program. positive lifestyles and developing good strong and healthy society. Then maybe Through the SportsFunder lottery character. The SportsFunder program amateur sport in this country will get the program the BC amateur sport system helps the sport community support financial support needed to achieve our has been the recipient of $1 million in this effort. collective goals. funding this past year that has directly Regarding the access to the Opening I wish everyone the very best of assisted athletes and coaches across Ceremonies, one must remember there the Holiday Season. The CABC looks the province. This is new funding is a finite number of individuals who forward to continuing to support your that the sport system has been able to can fit in BC Place. Just having deep coaching efforts in 2008! access to support athletes traveling pockets is not going to guarantee being to competitions, to develop more able to get these tickets. There are 100 and better trained coaches, and to pairs of tickets available through the give underprivileged individuals an SportsFunder lottery program, so at opportunity to access sporting activities least there is a chance that someone that they would not otherwise be able to from BC will have access to those seats. afford. Although this amount of money Lucky them! And for the additional Gord May A Quarterly Publication of the: The Coaches Association Publication Agreement # 40972566 of BC is supported by Return undeliverable Canadian Editor Jan Mansfield 2010 Legacies Now addresses to: Publisher CABC CABC Zone Representatives Design Sharkbite Art & Design Zone 1 Rep. Vacant Coaches Association of BC Front Cover: Coach Jack Hockey of Lumby Zone 2 Rep. Wendy Wheeler #345 - 1367 West Broadway St. CABC Board of Directors with curler Samantha Van Iperen of Enderby at Zone 3 Rep. Chris Johnson Vancouver, BC V6H 4A9 President Judy Latoski the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse. 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