Another training exercise i tried which i thought was quite good for those of us who do not have good areas to train on close by. Done in pairs, each person has a copy of the same map of a complex area (the more complex detailed map the better-i used swedish maps). On the maps are two different courses with similar nos. of legs, its handy if they start and finish in the same place. You then take it in turns to try and explain how you do your leg and see if the other person can follow where your going and ends up at your control site. e.g. you explain how you get from start to no.1, check your partner is at the right place, then they explain how they get from the start to their no.1 etc etc. This is all done while running around your local park or wherever! Its amazing how slow you end up jogging but you really get into the map.
Don't know if there is a name for this, hope you can understand it!
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Becky C did a fun one at Lagganlia last year - Boulder Dash. (Fortunately) it was in a small area (easily bounded by roads/fences, so you don't get any wanderers) and 100s of boulders in it.
The controls were unmarked on the map, but there were roughtly 20/25 controls all on boulders out there, so the juniors ran around randomly trying to find as many boulders as possible with controls on. They were in pairs, with one person out at a time, so it didn't become too demoralising, only having to find two or three before swapping over.
Not sure quite what skill it tested/trained, but it was the 'fun' afternoon bit. Adding a roving boulder (a coach) added to the fun! Good to watch if you're a coach!
The controls were unmarked on the map, but there were roughtly 20/25 controls all on boulders out there, so the juniors ran around randomly trying to find as many boulders as possible with controls on. They were in pairs, with one person out at a time, so it didn't become too demoralising, only having to find two or three before swapping over.
Not sure quite what skill it tested/trained, but it was the 'fun' afternoon bit. Adding a roving boulder (a coach) added to the fun! Good to watch if you're a coach!
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I did a simular thing called a headless chicken.
Guess it trains that important ability "headless chickening". Get roughly in the right area using rough navigatiing, sod the fine navigation and just run around tilll you find it! We've all done it! (well i hope we have)
Guess it trains that important ability "headless chickening". Get roughly in the right area using rough navigatiing, sod the fine navigation and just run around tilll you find it! We've all done it! (well i hope we have)
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I did an interesting pairs exercise back when I started orienteering. It involved recreating a course on a blank map (not necessarily of the area you're on) by running some distance to a pre-marked map, memorising as many controls as possible, then running back, handing over to your team mate (who could then start running) and adding your memorised controls to your map while waiting to run again. If done as a race between teams there is a constant pressure to remember as many controls as possible yet get the position of all of them correct.
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seeing how nopesport has got such a wide readership I guess some of these great training ideas will be used at a coaching weekend near y'all soon. Definitely at one,end of April, not a million miles from here (if I ever get back onto this ****map!).
Off to my all time favourite O event now. M6 here we come!
Off to my all time favourite O event now. M6 here we come!
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thanks
just re-awakening this sleeping giant to say thanks to all who contributed. Your ideas will go on being used all through next winter, but contributed to great weekend last week for HOC junior coaches (and hopefully HOC juniors as well). And the sun shone, and the cuckoo was calling in the early morning dew, and 60 pegs just about made it back to the washing line from the PEG relay, and the scouts didn't charge us full price for accomodation, and there should be some pics on club website soon (if webmaster is not working abroad this week....)Whoaaa.
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spelling
agree with you , my spelling teacher, it normally is one of my hobby-horses too. Doing too much posting today for my typing speed
don't forget the line course,contour-only practice at SEE next week!
don't forget the line course,contour-only practice at SEE next week!
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