Athlete Development Funding

Athlete Development Funding

Over the past few years, CSPA has provided funding to assist with the costs of providing skills development in various disciplines. The Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) committee will, in collaboration with CSPA Registered Participants and Members, support opportunities for skill development camps, seminars and workshops which promote and develop skills related to the competitive disciplines in keeping with Flight Plan, Stages 3 through 7.

The goal in providing skill development opportunities is:

  1. To promote the competitive disciplines* to CSPA Registered Participants and develop skills which lead to successful competition and increase safe participation in the sport.
  2. To provide competition opportunities for CSPA Registered Participants as an introduction to competition and a means to identify potential National Team Members.
  3. To provide opportunities for Competition Development coaches and officials to further develop their skills and progress to the next level of certification.

* The competitive disciplines are: 4-way/8-way Formation Skydiving/4-way Vertical Formation Skydiving; Canopy Piloting; Canopy Formation; Artistic Events; Accuracy Landing; and Wingsuit Flying.

Applications will be reviewed and awarded funding based on (but not limited to) the following guidelines:

  1. Relation of the goals to the LTAD framework in Flight Plan, Long Term Athlete Development for Skydiving
  2. Relation of the goals to competitive skill development.
  3. CSPA qualifications (i.e. CoP’s, ratings, certifications or endorsements) of organizers/coaches/applicants. Equivalent qualifications (i.e. USPA or IBA licenses or ratings) will be considered as long as all CSPA rules and regulations are met.
  4. Funding to benefit as many skydivers as possible versus individual skydivers/teams plus provision of opportunities across Canada.

Funding will NOT be applied directly to any of the following: jump tickets, packing or tunnel time (whether if is for individuals/teams, coaches, organizers or videographers); personal equipment (purchase or rental of items such as harness/container; wingsuit, etc) or obtaining coach/instructor ratings or CoP

Examples of items that may qualify for funding are: Coaching/judging/videographer/other daily fee, travel or accommodation expense; rental of equipment such as Accuracy tuffet, camera system for CP, Flysight for WS, etc or other such items.

The payment of any allocated funds will only be paid to a CSPA Registered Participant or Member in good standing, upon completion of the event or initiative, except where CSPA has received the conditional arrangements with the individual or group in question.

Requests for funding should not exceed $1200

Please ensure that your application contains complete details as the decisions regarding funding approval are based on the information provided at the time of application. All decisions regarding approved initiatives are final.

The committee reserves the right to refuse or retract funding at any time if it is determined that an event has not complied with CSPA’s rules and regulations, or if the event or initiative details have been misrepresented. If changes are made after the time of application that could affect the event’s eligibility for funding, the committee must be notified in writing as soon as possible after the change is known.

Please select the appropriate application pdf form (Events & Skills Camps OR Individuals and Teams) that best represents your funding requirements. In addition to completing the application form, all submissions must include the relevant Expense Breakdown excel form. Please download both required forms prior to filling them out otherwise any changes on your forms will not be saved for future reference. The excel document is available for download from within the PDF application form.

The deadline for applications is June 10th 2023. All application requests will go to the committee for approval and applicants will be notified (when possible) by June 30th, 2023.