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System Alignment and Integration
Figure 10 illustrates the various performance priorities that LTAD addresses and the system development it effects.
- LTAD is the core business of national, provincial/territorial, and local sport organizations.
- LTAD is a tool for change towards full system alignment and integration.
- A seamless, sport-specific LTAD should be based on national and international normative data, both sport specific and sport science.
- LTAD plans for athletes with a disability need to be developed on a sport-by-sport basis taking into account the specific needs of individuals with a congenital or acquired disability.
- After the LTAD design is completed, a sport-specific system of competition should be established that matches the competitive needs of developmental athletes during Active Start, FUNdamentals, Learning to Train, and Training to Train stages.
- The content of training, competition, and recovery during the FUNdamentals, Learning to Train, and Training to Train stages are defined, taking into consideration the developmental levels of the athletes as these relate to the physical, technical, tactical — including decision making — and mental requirements of the sport, rather than being based on chronological age.
- LTAD is an athlete-centered approach designed around the needs of athletes and institutionalized by rationalization of the system by sport governing bodies.
- The process of designing and implementing LTAD programs is athlete centered, coach driven, and administration, sport science, and sponsor supported.
- LTAD has a strong impact on the coaching education curriculum. Developmental readiness will replace ad hoc decision-making about programming preparation.
- Activities of schools, communities, clubs, PSOs, and NSOs should be fully integrated through LTAD.
Figure 11 illustrates the relationship between national and local agencies and programs. To build on the four goals of the Canadian Sport Policy, LTAD must be supported and promoted by all levels of government including Canadian Heritage (Sport Canada) and the provincial/territorial ministries responsible for sport and recreation; provincial/territorial health ministries and Health Canada; provincial/territorial education ministries; other relevant federal and provincial/territorial departments and ministries; and municipal governments.
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