Better Orienteering Navigation Model – simple version

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Start by getting the basics right
Be systematic
Have a reliable Basic Navigation Routine
Identify Attack point
Plan Route
Map + Compass for direction
Visualise where you are going
Execute the leg in stages

Draw on a Tool Kit of Skills

Zoom in and out

Better Orienteering.org Skills Tool Kit

Use a range of strategies

Visualise map in 3D in your mind
Anticipate errors Parallel
error?
Maintain
concentration

Respond to
errors

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 Map

Zoom

Plan

Mental map
Plan Picture Direction
A model to use when orienteering

Picture

Seeing Visualisation

Observing
terrain
Direction

Executing leg

Plan, Picture Direction draws on a model by Kris Jones integrated with other elements of navigation on Better Orienteering, Duncan Bayliss, 2019
 Plan Picture Direction
Map

Zoom Skills and Strategies

Navigation Routine Hand rail

Catching feature
Plan Attack point Aiming off
Route choice
Sections of leg
Mental map
Anticipate errors

Overall route for leg

Picture Notable features
Visibility Personal Terrain library
Control location
Seeing Visualisation

Observing
terrain
Exiting control
Direction Overall direction Respond to errors / relocation
Placement in terrain
Micro route choices
Executing leg Decision points
Sections of leg
Finding control (inside circle) Maintain concentration

Plan, Picture Direction draws on a model by Kris Jones integrated with other elements of navigation on Better Orienteering, Duncan Bayliss, 2019
 Better Orienteering Navigation Model - systematic description

The elements Better Orienteering uses to help you build successful navigation

Routines Concepts Strategies

Integration and implementation
Pre-race Tool Kit of skills
Intermediate
Research the map Attack point Minimise losses maximise gains
Start well Handrail Positive attitude to mistakes
Aiming off Every leg a new beginning
Catching features Ignore other people
Basic Navigation Routine Corridor Look at options then commit
2D to 3D Simplify appropriately
Map to north Simplification
Know scale Notable features Advanced
Thumb map Style - don’t get stuck in a rut
Exiting control Advanced Control Flow
Route to next control Advanced Visualisation Virtual corridor
Finding control Library of terrain experience Planning ahead
Break leg into sections Catalogue of errors Bigger picture in mind
Steady to No.1 Categorize legs by type
Map contact Right approach for course
Relocate promptly Evaluate certainty of features
Relate speed to navigation 5 Key Principles
Improve distance estimation
Zoom in and out on map
Route choice
Beyond Advanced
Plan Total immersion
Post race Not all in words
Direction Improve mental maps and
Record route visualisation
Identify losses Picture / visualisation Feelings and the terrain
Track trends Extended race routine
Plan to avoid repeating errors Execution
Plan your own training
 Better Orienteering Navigation Model
The model Better Orienteering uses to help you explore orienteering navigation

Pre - race Race Post race

Research the map Basic Navigation Routine Concepts – Advanced Analysis
Tool Kit of Skills Visualisation

Training
Route choice and Strategies to
Start well Executing a leg Join it all up - How well am I
implement Process model orienteering ?
routines and
concepts
5 Key Principles
Anticipate errors
Route choice
Maintain
Plan
concentration
Direction
Respond to
errors
Picture / visualisation

Execution Training plan

 Better Orienteering - Download, Links, Resources, Books
The resources Better Orienteering connects you with to improve your orienteering

Videos Free resources and downloads

Books McNeIl (2010) Orienteering: skills, techniques, training

Ferguson and Turbyfill (2013) Discovering orienteering

Gueorgiou (2019) The winning eye