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Coaching

Updated January 2018

These links cover some of the topics which coaches need to know about. If you find one of the links doesn't work or you have a link which you think would be useful to others please let me know about it. Click here to send an e-mail.
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The links in this first section have lots of information which is useful to orienteering coaches, but you will have to search the website for what you want. Further down the page you may find links to the same web sites but they will direct you to the exact loacation within that site which relates to that topic.
National Orienteering Centre - Glenmore Lodge.

Scottish Orienteering Association

British Orienteering - The National Governing Body for the sport in the United Kingdom.

IOF - International Orienteering Federation.

Orienteering coaching web pages

British Orienteering - Coach Support page

Northern Ireland Orienteering - Coaching page

Scottish Orienteering - Coaching page

The National Orienteering Centre - Coaching news and resources

Ideas for coaching sessions

Challenge sheets - British Orienteering have produced 7 orienteering related work sheets.

Indoor sessions - ideas on the British Orienteering coaching suport page.

Orienteering New Zealand coaching resources.

OCAD - tips on how to use OCAD to produce different types of map e.g. contour only, corridor.

O-training - a community driven resource for orienteering technical training with lots of ideas for coaching.

South Downs Schools - Ideas for coaching sessions.

Tri o - resources put together by British Orienteering for schools.

Understanding contours - resources put together for teachers by the Australian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Understanding contours - DIY, a web site where young people can learn new Skills.

Resources for school orienteering.

Weekly club - ideas for activities put together by British Orienteering.

British Orienteering - The British Orienteering web site has two interactive games about orienteering map symbols.

IOF specification for control descriptions 2004.

IOF specification for orienteering maps.

Maprunner - Information about map symbols and IOF pictorial descriptions.

Mountain Bike Orienteering - Lists of map symbols.

Pictorial descriptions - interactive quiz about IOF pictorial descriptions.

Map symbols - interactive quiz about Map symbols.

Map symbols - interactive quiz matching photos to map symbols.

Advice and information about course planning

White courses - by Barry Elkington.

Yellow courses - by Barry Elkington.

Orange courses - by Barry Elkington.

Light Green courses - by Barry Elkington.

Green to Black courses - by Barry Elkington.

Blogs

223 coaching - Richard Lecky-Thompson. A fell runner, orienteer and coach.

O-training - a community driven resource for orienteering technical training.

Sports coach uk - A coaching blog which has articles from lots of different sports.

The lost compass - A blog run by the Junior Development Program of the Foothills Wanderers Orienteering Club

Computer based activities

Catching Features - an orienteering game.

Map symbols - an interactive quiz about map symbols.

Map symbols - an interactive quiz matching photos to map symbols.

OCAD - tips on how to use OCAD to produce different types of map e.g. contour only, corridor.

Octavian-Droobers - interactive quizzes.

O-training - Route choice quizzes.

Oriantica - orienteering simulation software. Using a map and a compass you have to find your way through the terrain to locate the controls as fast as possible.

Pictorial descriptions - interactive quiz about IOF pictorial descriptions.

Webroute - test your route choice against others.

Win OL - real-time orienteering software for Windows. The goal is to find all the controls, in the shortest time possible.

Other resources

Attackpoint - Performance and training tools for orienteering athletes.

CompassSport - Orienteering magazine.

Maprunner - Web site with interesting and useful articles.

Nopesport - An on line orienteering community.

O Planner - Course setting software for orienteering.

Purple Pen - Course setting software for orienteering.

Routegadget - A web utility for drawing and comparing orienteering routes. This link will take you to Solway Orienteers index page on Routegadget.

Routegadget - How to print out a map from Routegadget - discussion on Nopesport.

World of O - On line international orienteering news.

On line maps and aerial images.

Zoom Earth

Google maps

Open Street Map - a free editiable map of the whole world

Open Orienteering Map

Ordinance Survey maps

Streetmap

Colour blindness and orienteering

British Orienteering

Nopesport link 1

Nopesport link 2

Southdowns Orienteers forum

Attackpoint discussion

Articles

Training insights from star athletes. By Gina Kolata

Coaching invisible disabilities.

Core strength.

Inside the Ski Racing Mind: 11 Laws of Prime Training. By Eric Williams

Mental skills for coaches - Sport Information Resource Centre

Minimalist vs traditional running shoes.

Thanks to Mrs Mrs.Matteo's Runners Club in Daly City, CA for suggesting this link.

Orienteering forums

Attackpoint

Nopesport - this forum has a section for coaching.

Fun Stuff

Maze orienteering maps- have a look at the British Orienteering web site coach support page to see coaching notes (Helena Burrows activity 4).

Maze orienteering - Walton Chasers micro maze.

Vampire O - Airienteers notes for the organiser.

Admin.

Continuing personal development update 1 Aug 2011 - list of activities and the points value