CanoeKayak Canada Coaching Seminar

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CanoeKayak Canada Coaching Seminar
Séminaire sur l'entraînement de CanoeKayak Canada
November 9-10, 2008 Calgary, Alberta
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2008 Fall CanoeKayak Coaching Seminar(s)

• Petro Canada Sportif
• November 7-9 Petro-Canada Sport Leadership
  sportif 2008
• One of the world's premier annual conferences for
  sport leaders, over 650 coaches, sport
  administrators, coach educators, and sport
  scientists will convene for several days of
  learning, networking, and celebrating
  achievements.
• It is the responsibility of the Coach to register
  for the Sport Leadership Conference and pay all
  required registration fees. A late fee of 50
  will be charged if registration takes place after
  October 1st. The sport Leadership Conference
  registration can be done on-line at
  http//www.coach.ca/sportleadershipsportif/2008/
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• CKC Coaching Seminar
• November 9-10 CanoeKayak Canada Coaching Seminar
  
• CanoeKayak Canada (CKC) in cooperation with the
  Alberta Sprint Canoe Racing Association (ASCRA),
  are pleased to host the 2008 Fall Canoe-Kayak
  Coaches Seminar in conjunction with the 2008
  Sport Leadership Conference.
• The CanoeKayak Canada Coaching Seminar will
  commence at 1300 PM on Sunday November 9th
  following the Petro Canada Sportif. Payment can
  be made to ASCRA by cheque or cash before the
  first session on Saturday.
• Please register with
• Mike Robinson, ASCRA, 403-463-2624,
  m_g_robinson_at_mac.com

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2008 CanoeKayak Canada Coaching Seminar

• General Information
• CanoeKayak Canada and The Alberta Sprint Canoe
  Racing Association is pleased to welcome the
  participants of the 2nd annual CanoeKayak Canada
  Coaching Seminar.
• A two day event packed with presentations from
  individuals both within and outside of the canoe
  circle. The goal of this event is to offer our
  canoe coaches an opportunity to learn from
  topics that are relevant to their professional
  lives while sharing information and building
  relationships with other coaches from across the
  country.
• Ultimately, we expect to help foster the
  continued development of our coaches to continue
  to make our program one of the best in the
  country and the world. We hope that you enjoy
  listening, learning and sharing over these next
  two days, all while having some fun.
• You are free to reach me throughout the
  conference with any questions that you may have.
  
• Thank you,
• Mike Robinson
• ASCRA - CKC
• 403-463-2624
• m_g_robinson_at_mac.com

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Sunday November 9, 2008 1200 - Registration
and Payment 1300-1430 - Dr. Stephen
Norris Practical Monitoring Systems for the
Coach Location Calgary Canoe
Club 1500-1800 - Leo Thornley Specific
Race Preparation and Monitoring Location
Calgary Canoe Club 1900-2100 - Dinner Th
omas Hall, Olympic Bronze Medalist Evening Coach
es Night out Monday November 10,
2008 900-1130 Balint Vekassy Hungarian
National Development Program Location Hyatt
Regency - Imperial Room 1 11301230 - Lunch
Break 1230-1430 - Dr. Don McKenzie Athlete
Health and Performance Hyatt Regency -
Imperial Room 1 1500-1700 - Coaches
Meeting 2009 National Team Program
Overview Hyatt Regency - Imperial Room
1 The organizers of the CanoeKayak Canada
Coaching Seminar reserve the right to change
speakers, topics and locations as needed
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SPEAKER
Leo Thornley
Leo Thornley MSc CSCS CEP?Sport Science
Coordinator Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic
Presentation Specific race pace preparation
monitoring with the Canadian Mens Kayak crew
boats leading into the 2008 Olympics.
Leo Thornley MSc. CSCS CEP is the Head Exercise
Physiologist  and Sport Science Coordinator at
the Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic.   Leo has
been the lead sport scientist with Canoe Kayak
Canada since 2005 providing exercise physiology
support and coordinating the integrated sport
science support team. Leo also works with the
National Canadian Sailing Team and helps oversee
the programming of sport science support to a
number of sports in the Atlantic region.  
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SPEAKER
Dr. Stephen Norris
Presentation Practical Monitoring Systems This
session will focus on the rationale for
monitoring and the use and examples of practical
tools that can be used in real-life situations.
A critical element will be the emphasis upon
systems/tools that are inexpensive, require very
little time to do and interpret, and have minimal
impact upon the athlete and their
training/competition environment.
Stephen is currently the Director of Sport
Physiology Strategic Planning at the Canadian
Sport Centre Calgary where he focuses on winter
Olympic sports and acts as an advisor to Own the
Podium (the winter arm of Podium Canada
Canadas high performance sport agency). He is
also an adjunct assistant professor within the
Human Performance Laboratory at the Faculty of
Kinesiology, University of Calgary where he is a
member of the Altitude Research Group and the
Sport Physiology Group.
Stephens main role is working with national team
officials and coaches to devise and enact
programs that increase the likelihood of success
at international level competition. This often
requires an integrated multidisciplinary approach
utilizing expertise from several different areas
in order to support a given sports performance
objectives. Aside from this role, Steve also acts
as a graduate student advisor and committee
member, and is in increasing demand
internationally both as an external examiner and
as a high performance consultant.   In recent
years he has been a Board of Directors member for
Cross Country Canada/Ski du Fond (2005-7),
Swimming Canada/Natation Canada (2004-7), and
Bobsleigh Skeleton Canada (2006-7). He currently
is on the editorial board of the International
Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance as
well as being a main board director for
Paramount World (a leading global corporate,
personnel, personal security and risk assessment
group based in the UK).
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BALINT VEKASSY
Presentation The Hungarian National Development
System This session will focus on the
development of the athlete in Hungary from the
entry level to the National Team. Critical
elements will be Programs, Training and
Competition at each stage of development.
Balint was born in 1974 and started his paddling
carrier relatively early at age 8 in 1982. He won
almost all the single boat national competitions
in his age-group until age 15 when he started to
paddle in K2 with his main adversary, Krisztian
Bartfai. During the Junior years Balint won two
World Championships titles at age 17 and also won
silver in K1 1000m. Balint made it to the senior
team the following year at age 18 but due to an
injury dropped out of the Olympic team and his
partner started with someone else in Barcelona.
The following years of adjustment to the senior
atmosphere was not easy and he quickly lost
interest in the sport while attending the
University of Physical Education in Budapest. He
got his bachelors degree majoring in canoe-kayak
coaching in 1998. In 2004 the Hungarian Canoe
Federation asked Balint to join the federation in
organizing a series of international
competitions. Since that time Balint has been the
Competition Manager for the Junior Worlds in
2005, The Senior World Championships in 2006, two
World Cups in 2007 and 2008, the 2007 Jr / U23
European Championships as well as the 2007 World
Marathon Championships. Apart from working for
the Hungarian Canoe Federation full time, Balint
is a freelance photographer and writer. He was
the official photographer of the ICF for the
Olympic Games in Beijing.