Orienteering is / Orienteering means...

[Hammer]

Orienteering is Adventure Running

Example: Visit: http://www.dontgetlost.ca/raid

[Carnage Head]

[quote="brooner"]Okay, there's been a few good lines in here, but its drifting a bit so here's some focus. We're putting together some new video footage to be shown on the big screen at the Rat Race and along with the footage of orienteers crashing through the terrain, round streets, etc etc we need some good lines to flash up along with it.

Any chance of using a 'SteadyCam', to show an orienteer's-eye view of the action? Are there any steady enough to cope with the rapid movements? As with Formula 1, when people see the participants' point of view, the sport becomes more exciting. (Thanks to someone on the London 2012 thread for prompting this thought.)

BTW, I like the 'mental activity' slogan. Could be read two ways, one of which is close to the PC bone, but probably still acceptable. Good to attract younger thrill-chasers.

[stodge]

With all the problems of scout groups, CCF, schools, outdoor centres etc etc calling map reading exercises orienteerting why dont we capitalise on it rather than moaning and change what we do to

"Sport Orienteering"

[Simon E]

Any chance of using a 'SteadyCam', to show an orienteer's-eye view of the action? Are there any steady enough to cope with the rapid movements? As with Formula 1, when people see the participants' point of view, the sport becomes more exciting. (Thanks to someone on the London 2012 thread for prompting this thought.)

For those who haven't found it yet I'd say that http://www.tero.fr/ is currently the best orienteering web site around.

Look around it yourself to see what is there, but
http://tero1.free.fr/news/vrac/followme ... t_high.wmv

shows a head-mounted camera view of Thierry Gueorgiou running a leg in what looks like Finland, and there are various other videos on the site if you look hard enough.

Simon

[Guest]

Orienteering is 'an adventure sport for body and mind'.

Man of Kent

[AndyO]

[Carnage Head wrote: BTW, I like the 'mental activity' slogan. Could be read two ways, one of which is close to the PC bone, but probably still acceptable.]

...so Orienteering is mentally physical, and physically mental!!

[mharky]

thats good, i like that!

[nellars]

frenchies go in for
"orienteering freestyle" "surfer les collines" - which'd be something like
orienteering is... hill surfing
... riding the hills

go find the videos they made on http://www.co-news.com - archived, juin 2004 I think.
and to reiterate, http://www.tero.fr is currently the best o-website around... nopesport notwithstanding of course. especially if you can read french!!!

[mharky]

"Orienteering is a rubber ball"
- Harry, 2005

[Carnage Head]

Any chance of using a 'SteadyCam'...

For those who haven't found it yet I'd say that http://www.tero.fr/ is currently the best orienteering web site around.

Look around it yourself to see what is there, but
http://tero1.free.fr/news/vrac/followme ... t_high.wmv

shows a head-mounted camera view of Thierry Gueorgiou running a leg in what looks like Finland, and there are various other videos on the site if you look hard enough.

Simon

I have just checked this out, having finally found a good computer (ie not one at work) - it is a really well put together little video. I imagine that with a more route-choice-varied course, and with a separate map to bring up on the screen/print out prior to watching, this sort of thing could be used as a good indoor training aid (asking the traineed what route they would take, then showing it, and asking them to draw on what route Thierry (or other orienteer) took, and asking them why they though he took that route, etc etc).

OK, not fully on this thread, but I am too shy and too much of a novice to put it on the Coaching forum. Anyone fancy doing it for me?

Should BOF put a link to a similar video on their website's front page, to show people what o can be/is really like? Or even nopesport?!

[harry]

"Orienteering is a rubber ball"

Exactly!

[Carnage Head]

I refer the honourable gentleorienteers of this website to an earlier discussion.

With all the problems of scout groups, CCF, schools, outdoor centres etc etc calling map reading exercises orienteerting why dont we capitalise on it rather than moaning and change what we do to

"Sport Orienteering"

In my efforts to get an o club up and running at the small (290 pupils) secondary school I teach at, I used this as the title of a poster I made and distributed, and I also included the flash 'physically mental and mentally physical' (also suggested earlier in the string), plus the best 'action' pics from the web.

Result: seven pupils at the first session, with the promise of a handful more in the week after the half-term holidays, and I count that as a success. Once the club is established, I will be referring to it as plain 'orienteering', but Stodge's suggestion seems to have worked at this stage...

Has anyone else tried this 'New Labour'-type relabelling?

[Drew]

the most dangerous sport you can do without any proper safety equipment