Resources - Orienteering Videos
Selection of web-based orienteering videos
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Title
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Source
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Comment
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Video
Quality
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Orienteering: Scope TV
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Network 10
/ CSIRO
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Australian
Junior team members explain orienteering as part of the children’s television
show, Scope. EXCELLENT. N.B.
Schools can use a recorded version of this to assist teach students.
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Low
(online), High (if recorded or purchased)
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Orienteering
Course viewer: World Champs 2007
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World
Championships Organiers
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Not
exactly a video, but a GPS trace of the top runners from the 2007 World
Orienteering Championships men’s long distance event in the Ukraine. Learn
about route choice.
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High
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Orienteering
– The Adventure Sport for All
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Youtube
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Basic
explanation of orienteering by British Orienteering
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Moderate
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Orienteering - Melville
Caves
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Youtube
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By
VIC orienteer, Rob Fell
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Low
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Orientering: Sprintcup 2006
- Løp 1
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Youtube
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Norwegian
- training course
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Moderate
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Scottish Orienteering,
8/10/2006
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Youtube
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Scottish
day of orienteering
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Moderate
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orienteering - Canadian
Forest route choice
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Youtube
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Another
Rob Fell video, a interesting look at route choice. Very good.
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Low
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Hanny Allston gets GOLD in
Sprint!!!
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Youtube
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May
be from official WOC 2006 video and edited out and posted online.
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Moderate
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JWOC 2006
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Youtube
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Christine
Brown - a video made of the 2006 Australian JWOC experience
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Low
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Follow Me (Thierry Geourgiou) series
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Tero's
website - find
Follow Me video entries on his blog then click on the small comments link and
choose the quality you want
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You
have to sort through the pages of Thierry's (World's Best orienteer) to get
to the FollowMe videos. Excellent!
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Low
to High
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Orienteering in Indiana
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Youtube
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Introductory
to orienteering from US. Very good.
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Moderate
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tchequi2
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TheTeam's
website (French orienteers)
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French
guys tearing through the forest. Cool.
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High
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tibO (!)
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TheTeam's
website (French orienteers)
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French
guys again, making an 11 year old orienteer's course cool. Excellent, very
cool!
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High
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Follow
Me VI
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Tero's
website (I just
wanted to make sure you saw at least one of the Follow Me series).
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The
latest in the Follow Me series. Excellent!
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Low
to High
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Orienteering for Beginners
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YouTube
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Alex (aged
11) makes a video explaining how to orienteer around a course.
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Moderate
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The Waterstop has links to a number of excellent web-based videos (most mentioned above).
The above really is just a selection of what is available on the web although I think I have covered most of the good ones at present. Of course you can spend hours on the
internet searching (if it's on youtube I think its public domain). Start with a Google video search or search Youtube.
There is also an Orienteering Internet Channel, WoO-TV. Click on the picture (right) for probably the BEST videos of orienteering available anywhere!!
Regular Videos
The US appear to have a good promotional video, you can preview it here, (or the youtube version) and purchase it through US Orienteering.
OAWA have had success using a specific video for teaching orienteering. "Orienteering - the first steps", produced for the BOF, and aimed at primary students to complement Carol McNeill's series of books for primary schools. It is available from the producer Mike Pearson. There are two videos, each with two parts. The first two parts cover orienteering in the school ground and a first bush event. I mainly use part 1, and sometimes part 2. They are too basic for secondary students. The other two parts would be useful for someone coaching 13-16yos or for a pretty advanced secondary school group - I don't use them much, but I think they are quite good – Tony Simpkins, WA
The WOC 2006 video is also available and Orienteering Australia has at least two copies, some states have their own also. The video is particularly good from an Australian perspective since Hanny Allston became Australia's first (and only) World Champion!
If you know of any other good orienteering videos for either teaching or promotion please contact Director (Development).