My question is ...
How can orienteering be made more attractive to people in there 20's and early 30's?
I've recently started orienteering again after a gap of about 20 years. The thing that surprises me is how few orienteers there are in the 20-40 age group compared with 20 years ago. I have seen lots of debate about how to promote the sport to juniors, but less on how to promote the sport to the 20-40 age group.
Any comments?
orienteering in 20's and 30's
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How can orienteering be made more attractive to people in there 20's and early 30's?
start making it trendy
Adventure racing is mainly oing with knobs on and its growing in popularity all the time.
we need to look at events like challenger world, ace races etc.
is event atmosphere the key....
have a look at
http://www.sleepmonsters.com/CiscoEuroChallenge.php
Oh and ban ALL beards
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Re: orienteering in 20's and 30's
stodge wrote:How can orienteering be made more attractive to people in there 20's and early 30's?
start making it trendy
Adventure racing is mainly oing with knobs on and its growing in popularity all the time.
guess what i'm hopefully doing my dissertation on.
adventure racing has it sussed and has grown hugely over the past 10 years while orienteering has been going into freefall.
stodge wrote:Oh and ban ALL beards
never mind banning beards, ban people from running in ridiculously coloured pyjama o-kit.
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Start absolute beginners off on something more challenging than an orange course and encourage them onto greens early, and get them to big events asap so they can see there is life beyond a wet and miserable district event on a shitty area with a handful of people. JK with 2 beginners on M/W21V last year had them hooked as soon as they arrived in assembly.
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Try promoting in Gyms around this time of year when people are bored.
We always seem to be putting in our info and fliers stuff giving people the impression
'you dont have to run'
and that
'all you need is tracksuit and some trainers'
late 20s early thirties people are kit monsters, part of taking up a new sport is buying all the kit.
How many orienteers do you know between 20 and 50 who don’t run !
This (1mb pdf at 72 dpi) is the latest Chasers Flier in which we have tried to make the sport look younger and trendy.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk/wch.pdf
We always seem to be putting in our info and fliers stuff giving people the impression
'you dont have to run'
and that
'all you need is tracksuit and some trainers'
late 20s early thirties people are kit monsters, part of taking up a new sport is buying all the kit.
How many orienteers do you know between 20 and 50 who don’t run !
This (1mb pdf at 72 dpi) is the latest Chasers Flier in which we have tried to make the sport look younger and trendy.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk/wch.pdf
Stodge's Blog http://www.stodgell.co.uk
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Re: orienteering in 20's and 30's
stodge wrote:Oh and ban ALL beards
You'd have to shave more often...
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You'd have to shave more often...
at least I need to
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It's excellent - we've always put a seperate insert in the club trifold - but that looks slicker - I guess you can produc them as required on your new printer - if you can match supply and dmand (not get left with too many out of date) I think it is a much more improessive way of doing it.
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Re: orienteering in 20's and 30's
Anonymous wrote:How can orienteering be made more attractive to people in there 20's and early 30's?
Favourite topic of mine...
When BOF decided to abolish B and C courses and replace them with short courses, it was clear that this would lead to good retention of existing orienteers and poor recruitment (as I banged on about at the time). So it has proved.
I think instant success matters too. As a novice M21 (i.e. dodgy navigator), I was quickly able to get near the front of red, B and C courses, which felt like a good hard run. After a year I was ready to take on A courses. Nowadays the short course is designed for, and dominated by, experienced orienteers who aren't fit. Being surrounded by fat beardy pyjamas is bad enough, being beaten by them is a whole lot worse.
I guess image matters (you might not think it to look at me...), but there's no point pretending
you wont get your clothes and legs a bit dirty and torn.
So, bring back courses where novice adults can succeed!
Now, where's that razor?
Graeme
WOC2024 Edinburgh
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Canadian PDF File wrote:2. Gaitors should be worn inside the pants if possible.
This made me giggle until I realised it was probably refering to the american pants rather than the british ones
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i totally agree with the Canadians. we need new images. a number of clubs have recently started getting more stylish tops - EUOC have there blue nike kit and beaters, we at LUOC have the trimtex coolmax kit - more clubs need these. Everyone who wants to change their style should speak to their club's kit sec. This way every club can actually look good = attract more new comers with fancy racing kit.
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...from Canada!PeterG wrote:Australian PDF File
I agree with what the Canadian says in principal but it's a mix of this and the beard thing. By enlarge the young elite look good in whatever they wear because they're fit and care about their appearance. As the article says - some people look good in the nylon. However because oing is so open to all there is a significant number a bit on the lardy side and quite a few of our elder members don't really care what they look like dress wise.
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Supersaint wrote: EUOC have there blue nike kit and beaters, we at LUOC have the trimtex coolmax kit - more clubs need these.
ShUOC have also invested in the trimtex kit for the forthcoming BUSA.
(not that we have got them yet!!)
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