Basketball • Fencing • Golf • Marathon • Track and Field • Sailing • Shooting • Soccer • A division of CF Morale & Welfare Services Une division des Services de bien-être et moral des FCSwimming • Taekwondo • Triathlon • Volleyball MND visiting PSP in Kuwait - OP Impact PSP DIRECTORATE OF FITNESS PROMOTING WELLNESS FITNESS AND SPORTS VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 • MAY 2016 • WWW.CFMWS.COM Message from DFIT 2 Great Work in the Field Winter Fitness Profile Training Update: Borden 3 2015 CFSU(O) Sports Day in Canada 9 And the winners are… Spotlight on “Health in Motion” – PO2 Craig Blake Military Sports at the Sports Awards Ceremony 4 Memorial Fitness Challenge 2015 10 Hockey Hall of Fame - Hockey Marching as to War Display 5 Love your Veggies and Fruit! 11 FORCEcombat Update 6 Bagotville presents Tim Hortons healthy alternatives 12 PSP OUTCAN Fitness Instructor PSP Making an Impact on OP IMPACT 13 Training and Selection Course 7 A healthy start to 2016 in Petawawa! 14 2015 Sports Day in the CAF 8 Nutrition Month at CFB Suffield 15 Congratulations 15 Meet CFSU Germany 16 Meet North Bay Sports and Facilities Coordinator 17 PSP field and HQ staff updates 18 If you have any questions or would like to submit an article please contact [email protected] MESSAGE FROM DFIT My contribution to the spring DFIT Newsletter is typically focused on highlighting our activities in focus from the previous year and providing an update on our successes and hiccups along the way. For this submission I’ll be shifting gears to focus on the Fitness Profile Training. This was the first time since PSP was established that we provided training for 100% of our fitness positions. I’m incredibly proud of how well the Fitness Profile was received and the level of commitment from staff at all levels to maximize its impact on their respective bases and wings. Beyond the training itself, the discussions between field and HQ personnel will undoubtedly help address the “why” of many program elements and serve us well moving forward. Three take home points for all of us to improve: 1. Leadership from the front: 2. In this together: 3. Scale of effort on our Mission: In a leadership driven Local programs, relationships the nature of our organization organization such as the CAF, with the chain of command is that we often get pulled in fitness from the front is critical and capacity building are the different directions and it’s to our collective success. We key to our success but a greater often easy to lose sight of our should be proud that 25 staff impact can be had by aligning “raison d’etre”. Remember reached the PLATINUM level local and national efforts. The if the majority of our day although as a collective we are DFIT Strategy 2015-2020 is the is not spent on programs in the bronze, 15 points from starting point and increasing and services, relationship the silver. We can do better and the number of field and HQ building with our client, and/ we will. opportunities to collaborate or increasing capacity, we are and share best practices will be missing the mark. pursued by our HQ. Winter Fitness Profile Training Update: Borden (January18-22, 2016) National Training conference Borden (North Bay, Petawawa, Ottawa, RMC /Kingston, Trenton, Toronto, London, Meaford, Borden) 2 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 • MAY 2016 • WWW.CFMWS.COM Winter Fitness Profile Training Update: Borden (January18-22, 2016) continued The first of four regional training sessions presenting FORMeFIT and the Fitness Profile was by all accounts a success. It was the largest PSP fitness gathering since our inception in 1996 and an opportunity for 73 fitness staff attending CFB Borden to learn and collaborate on this new and exciting CAF fitness initiative. The focus of the Winter Training was to present everything that has gone into the technological advancement of FORMeFIT, the Fitness Profile and the new CAF Incentive Program, while also Edmonton Training conference: 22-26 Feb; Esquimalt, Comox, Yellowknife, Cold Lake, preparing staff to implement the program on Edmonton, Wainright, Suffield, MooseJaw, their respective bases and wings. This initiative Dundurn, Winnipeg, Shilo and Portage. represents a fundamental shift in how the CAF conducts and views fitness evaluations. FORMeFIT consists of a web-based scheduling platform and a Fitness Evaluation System which together standardize our approach to fitness evaluating and programming. This not only increases our organizational ability to report on the fitness status of the entire CAF, but it will also assist us in educating CAF personnel on improving both their operational and health related fitness. Eastern Training conference: 15-19 February; By the end of the week, many had forged new Halifax, Gander, St. John’s, Goose Bay, friendships and reconnected with old ones. Gagetown, Shearwater, Greenwood. The general consensus even amongst the elite veterans of PSP (Steve, Marty, Mike and Walter) was that of excitement regarding the new advancements in our field and the role we all get to play in shaping the culture of fitness moving forward. Quebec Training conference: 7-11 March; Montreal/ St Jean, Valcartier/Quebec City, Bagotville. VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 • MAY 2016 • WWW.CFMWS.COM 3 And the winners are… Spotlight on Military Sports at the Sports Awards Ceremony Pascale Lalonde CFMWS On November 27th, the Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) top athletes, coaches, officials, and teams were reunited in Ottawa to celebrate athletic excellence at the annual CAF Sports Awards Ceremony. This year’s ceremony marked the 30th anniversary of the CAF joining CISM, le Conseil international de sport militaire, and it was highlighted with the CISM Order of Merit awarded to four outstanding CAF members: LGen Christine Whitecross, Maj Kevin Poirier, WO (Retd) Kenneth McDonald and Sgt (Retd) George Mooney. New this year was the Dedication to CAF Sports award which recognized those who have gone above and beyond to provide time, effort and support to the promotion and development of CAF sports. The recipients were LCdr (Retd) Antonio Zezza, WO David Oakie, and Sgt (Retd) George Mooney. Two deserving members were named to the CAF Honour Roll in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments: badminton athlete MWO Mario Gervais, and squash athlete Capt Khaled El Seweify. Induction into the CAF Sports Hall of Fame is reserved for only the most deserving candidates and this year’s inductee was golfer CWO Tony Stuckless. This year’s individual winners of the CAF Sports Achievement awards were: OS Yvette Yong, Cpl Andy Social, Female Athlete of the Year, Taekwondo Official of the Year, Multi-sports Maj Martin Lamontagne-Lacasse, CAF CISM Men’s Fencing Team, Male Athlete of the Year, Triathlon Team of the Year - Individual Sports PO 2 Craig Wells, 14 Wing Greenwood Men’s Slo-Pitch Team, Coach of the Year, Hockey Team of the Year - Collective Sports To learn more about the winners’ accomplishments, visit www.CAFSportsAwardsCeremony.ca. Experience the ceremony in pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/CAFSportsAwards PSP HQ Host Team 4 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 • MAY 2016 • WWW.CFMWS.COM Hockey Hall of Fame - Hockey Marching as to War Display Marcel Roy, CAF Sports Policy, Programs and Projects Coordinator, PSP HQ As part of both the CAF Sports Day in Canada and the 27th CAF Sports Awards Ceremony, the PSP/DFit CAF Sports department, hosted the Hockey Hall of Fame, ‘Hockey Marching as to War’ display, in Ottawa. While many of you know that the CAF and sports has a long-standing tradition, some of you may not realize the strong link between the Canadian Armed Forces and the sport of hockey. The relationship goes as far back as WWI where the enrollment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), created a shortage of players and teams in both the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). Since over 80 professional hockey players left their NHA teams to enroll in the CEF, and twice as many players from the OHA did the same, it obviously had tremendous impact on the operations and activities of our national sport. To highlight the centennial anniversary of WWI, the RCAF Flyers: Hockey Hall of Fame is currently hosting a temporary http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/ exhibit titled “Hockey Marching as to War”. Part of the those-who-served/olympics/1920-1949#1948- exhibit was showcased at NDHQ and at the 27th CAF hockey Sports Awards Ceremony, where viewers had a chance to see numerous memorabilia items. For example, items http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/article- from the 1920 Winnipeg Falcons, a team composed of template-standard.page?doc=rcaf-flyers-wrote- WWI Veterans, and the 1948 RCAF Flyers were on display. olympic-history/hrd91s2q Additional items such as hockey jerseys from the 1949 http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/the- Ottawa Commando’s and the Canadian Forces Hockey incredible-1948-rcaf-flyers-who-went-from- team in Baden were also part of the display. being-booed-off-the-ice-to-capturing-olympic- The display also included the Memorial Cup, which gold/ was created in 1919 and dedicated in honour of the http://www.sportsnet.ca/960/ryan-pinder/ soldiers who died, fighting for Canada during the WWI. against-all-odds-the-rcaf-flyers/ In 2010, the Memorial Cup was rededicated to honour all soldiers who died fighting for Canada in any conflict. Winnipeg Falcons: Today, the Memorial Cup, awarded to the top junior http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/ team in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), is escorted article/winnipeg-falcons/ by CAF members to centre ice following the final championship game. https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/ heritage-minutes/winnipeg-falcons If you are interested in learning more about the relationship between the CAF and hockey, I recommend https://www.youtube.com/ the following links: watch?v=0RmhGYRs99o http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/band-of- brothers-the-winnipeg-falcons-story/ VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 • MAY 2016 • WWW.CFMWS.COM 5 FORCEcombat Update FORCEcombat, a training objective for the Canadian Army continues its research and development phase.