MODULE 4

ORIENTEERING

What I Know
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What’s In

What’s More
1. Hiking
2. Mountain Biking
3. Skiing
What I Have Learned
1. Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational
skills using a map compass to navigate from point to point in
diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed,
Participants are given a topographical map usually a
specially prepared orienteering map which they use to find
control points.
2. Cross Country Orienteering – Long classic orienteering
involves a race between controls in a present order. The
 winner is the person who completes the course in the
shortest time. This is called a “ Cross-Country” course as
distinct from a score course.
Score Orienteering – Description in orienteering on their
own maps; and score orienteering, in which contros which
may be visited in any order are set up in a selected area with
a point value assigned to each according to its distance or
difficulty of location.
3. Increases fitness levels
4. The Common Injuries Are:Running injuries, Oversue
injuries, Impact injuries, Eye injuries, Skin injuries. The Risk
Factors in Orienting are: Lack of physical, Inexperience,
Poor technique, Lack of appropriate clothing. Explanation –
We need to know these when we are participating to
orienting for AWARENESS.

Assessment
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