Beginners & New Members
Useful documents, activities, hints and tips to improve your orienteering techniques and skills! Also, have a look at the ‘Improve your orienteering‘ courses we offer, for all abilities, which are tailored to you.
Beginners & new members
Title | Description | Size | Download |
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Tips for beginners at events | Ten tips for those new to orienteering | 80.20 KB | DownloadPreview |
Guide to Age Classes and Courses.docx | provides a guide to age classes and courses for age classes | 40.03 KB | DownloadPreview |
A-Z Jargonbuster | Covers all the quirks of orienteering language, club abbreviations, and fixture acronyms | 101.08 KB | DownloadPreview |
IOF control descriptions (Maprunner) | A guide to all the control symbols and descriptions agreed by the International Orienteering Federation | 495.88 KB | DownloadPreview |
Explaining control descriptions | An explanation of the information you find on control descriptions | 20.93 KB | DownloadPreview |
Control Descriptions Examples | An example showing how to understand a more advanced control description. | 97.98 KB | DownloadPreview |
Characteristics of colour-coded courses | How courses differ in length, technical difficulty, who they're suitable for, and expected finish times | 16.90 KB | DownloadPreview |
Types of Events | How to understand if someone uses "Level A, B, C, D" to describe events, rather than "national, regional, local, activity" | 24.74 KB | DownloadPreview |
What to do at an event | An outline of how events work, helping you know what to expect at your first event | 364.19 KB | DownloadPreview |
Tips to improve your orienteering | For those who orienteer a fair bit and want to improve their skills | 135.22 KB | DownloadPreview |
Step system | Outline of skills at each level of technical difficulty, useful for all participants and coaches | 69.16 KB | DownloadPreview |
Hints and tips videos
A series of short orienteering hints and tips videos, made by Glenmore Lodge with Scottish Orienteering.