Information to help you be a better orienteer
A series of PDFs which you can use to remind yourself about good O technique.
These 'information' PDFs are designed to help new members acquire orienteering skills as well as giving established orienteers the opportunity to revisit and refresh their skill set. The sheets back up coaching sessions in the forest.
- Systematic Orienteering: a basic method to approach your orienteering.
- The ACE systematic approach to orienteering.
- Route Choice: which way will you choose to go between controls and why?
- Relocation: what to do when you really do not know where you are.
- Technical Difficulty: know what level of course to enter. This is also called the 'Step System'.
- PLAN: making your PLAN, being flexible and reacting to what you find while navigating the leg.
- Going to an orienteering event: things you need to know about to have a good experience.
- Picture: working on how to simplify the map and create a picture from it in your head.
- Direction: are you using your compass in the best possible way?
- Contours: unlock how to use these lovely squiggly lines for navigation.
A presentation at the British Orienteering Coaching Conference 2023 pulls a lot of the information above together - How to navigate and coaching tips.