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Start |
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FUNdamentals |
- 0 - 6 Years of Age
- Recreation Facilities,
multi sport camps
- Activity promotes a
variety of body movements
- Promote enjoyment of
being active
- Enhances the development
of children
- Enhances the well being
of children
- Unstructured play that is
fun & purposefull
- Variety of activity is
key
- Running, hopping,
throwing, skipping
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- Males: 6-9 Females 8-11
- Regular Club Programming
- Variety of well
structured activities
- Develop basic paddle
sport skills
- Focus is on fun
- Minimal or relative
competition
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Learning to Train |
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Training to Train |
- Males: 9 - 12, Females: 8 - 11
- Participation in
formalized sport
- Development of general
sport skills
- Skill that are applicable
to other activities
- Other activities-avoid
one sided over development
- I.e. hockey and paddling
- I.e. skiing and paddling
- I.e. paddling and
climbing
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- Males: 12 - 16, Females: 11 - 15
- Defined by onset of
growth spurt
- Paddling skills training
important
- Physical development
important
- Consolidate basic sport
specific skills
- Consolidate basic sport
specific tactics
- Competition not as
important
- Focus is optimal windows
of trainability
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Training to Compete |
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Training to Win |
- Males: 16-23+, Females:
16-23+
- Specialization in a sport
and discipline
- Choose competition or
high performance
- Year round high
volume/intensity training
- "Serious training"
- Choose recreation - enter
active for life stage
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- Males - age 19+ Females -
18+
- The highest level of
performance
- Intense and specific
sport/discipline training
- International calibre
performers
- Training must meet sport
/ athlete demands
- World Class Level
- Slalom, wildwater,
freestyle, canoe polo
- River Running
- Class 5-6
- High Degree of Technical
Skill
- High Degree of Fitness
- Sound athletic skills:
physical
- technical, psychological
- Sound training practices:
nutrition, recovery programs
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Active for Life |
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- Paddlers enter at any age
- Previous sporting
experience
- May come from a paddling
background
- May come from another
sport
- Active because of prior
sport involvment
- Participate
recreationally in all disciplines
- Often helpful coaches and
instructors
- May volunteer or
officiate
- Feed others into the
early stages
- Participate in
certifications and rendezvous
- Enjoy slalom, freestyle,
canoe polo, wildwater
- Enjoy river running and
paddling lifestyle
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