My First Time Trying Orienteering
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2018
- In this episode I talk about orienteering, an activity that is very common in Swedish schools that we never did in America! Follow along as I take you through some of my first attempts to find orienteering controls in this massive forest style scavenger hunt.
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Oh no! I'm having flashbacks to my old school days with the orienteering days.
eddebrock I feel you
Do this with old map and realise that one of the permanent station is gone due to a housing developing that went up 5 years ago and another one is middle of lake ( that lake is run off from the houses) and look they remove half the mountain so their no way up and then the teacher told us we where lazy..
Haha me too, and I mean not good flashbacks 😜
We also have this in denmark, i remember it with joy. A whole day walking around unsupervised! :p
One thing that we did at my school back in junior high school (up until 2002, I think) was that we actually took a very long forest walk with the entire class for a whole night - we started walking at maybe 8 PM, and then we had buses that took us back to school at around 5 AM - we always did this in the summer, right before summer break I think, and obviously on nights when we were free the next day.
We used to call it "nattvandring", which means "night-hiking".
I don't think any other school in Sweden has done anything like that.
One thing that doesn’t come across if you don’t know anything about orienteering is that it is a cross country race where you need to complete all controls in the shortest possible time. You need to learn to plan the *fastest* route between A and B which is not necessarily the *shortest* route depending on vegetation, elevation and so on.. (The type of terrain can be read from the map.). We used to do tons of orienteering when I was in junior high school, especially in the fall. A colleague of mine competes and he tried to explain orienteering to some of our Indian colleagues who lives in a huge city in the middle of the desert. They had a hard time relating to running around in an actual forest. “So, is it a computer game?”
That sounds really cool and I could see how that would be a really fun sport if you're good at it!
Stefan Thyron I used to complete in my youth. Wasn't good at it, but it was fun and good exercise. The hardest part is to keep your navigation spot on while tiring yourself out. After 5 kilometers, direct route so you've probably run more by then, your decision making becomes worse. To be really good at it, you rarely stop to check the map and compass, you do it while running. :)
When I saw the title of the video I had to laugh. It's one of the things I completely forgot about my school days, to be honest. Really nice subject with some nostalgic moments for a 40 year old. :)
This was my favorit thing to do in gym class, cause I was not the fastest runner but I was really good at reading the map. 😊
This was my least favourite thing in gym class, cause we have done this every single year and it becomes repetitive
I kind of agree, as a "fat" kid I didn't take it too seriously, but I really cared about making my trip as short as possible so I made sure my mapreading and navigation was as close to perfection as possible. While I slowly walked from one checkpoint to the next the others ran around at fullspeed like headless chickens, sometimes yelling at me to put in some more effort into "finding the checkpoints". In the end, I beat their time and I wasn't even trying to beat anything, just minimising the effort :P (lazy person) It feelt really strange to hear how happy the gymteacher was with my performance. It really pays of to have "brain" enough to read a map in that activity. And perhaps the patience to actually try to read it...
If you're both a fast runner and a good map reader then you would always come out on top in orientering. We did this during my high school days a couple of times, and given the fact that I was the only one who ran while mapping I came out on top because of it... granted PE was one of the subjects I did best in all around, but still.
Same here
The ambient sound of the forest is just lovely
Love this video! I’ve been doing orienteering for years and I love how its part of school. Reading a map and how to use a compass is such a great skill to have!
Bra video... som vanligt haha. Your channel is great!
I'm actually surprised that they got to use a compass. When I went to school, we didn't use them, we just got a map and were told to find the places marked on the maps. We had to find landmarks such as hills in order to navigate, but I'm quite good at finding/remembering north, so I was never thrown off in regards to that at least.
Learning how to read maps is quite important in my opinion, as you can easily find places as long as you have a map. Even if you don't, if you get used to it, you'll be able to map out landmarks in your head and navigate based on them. I never get lost. I might not know where I am in particular, but I always know where I am in relation to other places.
Oh, and when I'm out in the forest, I always have something that I can use to mark trees. Preferrably a knife of some sort. Generally a good thing to have if you're in a large forest. Near a city, it's not necessary though, as the forests never get that large. You can just walk in one direction and find your way out, one way or another. Where I live (Norrland) that's not really an option though. You might find a road somewhere, but that road could be abandoned or unused, and everything is just far away from each other. So then you'd want to regularly mark trees in order to retrace your steps.
Well... or you could keep a compass and a map. That'd work too I guess. If using a new phone, you can even mark locations on the map. I'm just a bit traditional I guess.
wow, and you didint learn how to use a compass in school? I grew up in umeå area and you had to know, small test every year.
I knew how to use one, although I knew prior to us learning how to use them in school. We just didn't get to use a compass. We did have several tests, I believe we had 8 different maps each year, in order to test our orienteering skills. I'm not exactly sure why we didn't get to use compasses, but I currently work at a school, so I can try to get ahold of a PE teacher tomorrow and ask him/her whether they get to use compasses these days or not.
When I was a kid in Friluftsfrämjandet, I vaguely remember we were also taught orienteering with compass and no map.
Same I've done with and without a compass
Viktor Andersson, I asked around today, there were a few compasses, but I was never in a group that had a compass, but a person who went to the same school and is one year younger than me got to use a compass. So I'm not exactly sure what exactly happened. Still, the facts I know of are that I didn't get to use a compass, and that I didn't need one.
That is so great! Excellent skill and actually pretty fun.
Using a map and a compass, is one thing that could save your life sometime! Orienteering is common in Swedish learning practices because it is basic knowledge to navigate your surroundings. Useful and as said before, could be life saving. Don´t BSA (Boy Scout of America) teach these skills?
I'm pretty sure they do teach it there, but not in schools. As far as I understand, there aren't actually that many countries that do orienteering in schools.
That is true, I'm sure the boy scouts teach that kind of stuff. I was never in the boy scouts though so this was pretty new for me!
Great video as always Stefan! :D
So true...it can save your life!
To step it up abit more....then learn how to navigate with the time and the sun! :D
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Why do we need to learn how to use a map and a compass when whe have our smartphones?
Riggtuben 18.....haha...they may not work/last for long if you end up in a critical situation, and then it is really good to know how to handle it with out a smart phone, or similar.
Also the other two really important things to know, is to find water and how to start a fire! :)
I'm a local and I've been watching you these last 2 months, man you're too kind for Prolympia. You deserve way more respect! Keep the good videos up < 3
So great to see you tried orienteering, and made a video about it. Really like the video 👍
Wow that looks way too exciting, I agree there should be more teaching about practical outdoor skills. It's great too see that there are places that teach in that way. Love this video Stefan, keep it up!!
Martin MD I live in Sweden and hate orienteering. It's so boring. But the fun way is that you can go two and two and you are allowed to have our phones. My school are mobilefree but many other neirbyschool are allowed to Juice their phones.
Stefan, I love your content. Keep doing what you are doing. As a Swede it is very interesting to get an americans perspective on life in Sweden. Keep rocking, love.
Was amazed when I first heard about it and I loved the idea. Wish we had that in Germany when I was in school!
This is really fun to watch! Especially when i was in the exact same woods a couple of months ago. It’s really cool to see an american’s experience of the things that are no-brainers for us
Bra med orientering i skolan, kommer till användning när ryssen kommer och vi ska föra gerillakrig i skogarna :P
ända chansen vi har ;) gör som finnarna!
Bra kommentar. Ta en uppdutt.
1. Ryssarna skulle inte komma för då måste de slåss med EU. Och 2 finnarnas strategi fungerade bara för att ryssarnas pansarvangnar behövde en väg för dom var inte bra i tärräng.
fookin lasersights _it’s a joke_
Noah Wallner nähä! men det är välldigt uttjatat det stör mig för jag är delvis svensk och delvis ryss
3:13 det händer typ alltid mig när jag orienterar på idrotten, sen hittar man den rätta kontrollen gömd några meter borta :) riktigt bra videos du gör!
Great video! Here in Ireland members of The Scouts do this kind of thing (as well as camping, building rafts to race on lakes etc)
Grym video Stefan!
Orientering var min favoritdel av idrott! Så extremt kul, man känner sig verkligen som någon i en film eller ett spel. :) Jag har alltid trott att det var något som man lärde sig överallt, att kunna läsa en karta och hitta i naturen känns som en väldigt viktig sak att kunna! Bra jobbat med att hitta kontrollerna!
You should try Geocaching! It's like orientering with puzzelsolving. It is literally all over the world. Norrköping is a fun place to try it aswell :D
Love your videos
Oh I loved orienteering back in my school days. One of my best school memories is the night time orienteering. Running around in the actual forest big forest we had never been to before with torches at night. Challenging and very competitive since you could tell if someone was getting close by their lights so you'd dim your own to not let them follow you. Some of my friends got hopelessly lost and had to sit around in a swamp until daybreak when teachers could come pick them up. Me and my partner came in first. Great memories for life.
I really like this video. I compete in Orienteering as a sport. I really love it. In competitions, it's not Always the fastest runner that wins. You have to be smart about your route choices and make sure you know where you are. It is a lot of fun!!
We have orienteering quite regularly here, a few weeks ago before school ended we had a special day where we brought bikes and got ourself a map. Once we reached the stations we had activities such as kayaking :D
I was at that minigolf course last weekend!
Wow! I attended the same school but in another city! Love from Östersund! ❤️
You guys have it in the US, but it normally doesn't come into play until after or during boot camp. Land navigation is the term used in the army. Great video, huge flashback to mellanstadiet and högstadiet! Thnak you!
Haha this video brings out so many memories! I lived in Norrköping when I was growing up, and we were always in Vrinneviskogen (same forest as you) when we did the orientering! However, we practiced for about 4 or 5 weeks over the year, and then had two days when we did the major thing in Vrinnevi! We usually didn't get a compass, as navigating based on landmarks was seen as more important (how likely are we to have a compass if we get lost for example? But we usually have maps in our phones) :D Love your videos! :D
Kajsa Uhrenius well you have a compass in your phone too
Uuh, flashbacks! :) Did some competing in orientering when I was like 9-12 yrs, on top of what we did in school.
we used to have orienteering in Vrinneviskogen when i was younger, that forest is very big. I often ended with getting lost in the woods, haha!
I always loved this in P.E. in school but none of my classmates ever wanted to do it, so we only got to do it max once per year as it was mandatory, wish we'd done it more often.
That was my favourite pe activity when I went to school. Makes me want to go on a walk in a forrest now.
In Finland back in the days I was in school we had orienteering on every fall on gym classes. I think we did that four weeks or something like that on every week. Can't remember anymore if we started to do that in the gym classes on fourth or fifth grade. It was fun. I think it was one of the few things I actually liked in the gym.
Ånej det här påminner om skolan!😂vi hade alltid en orienterings dag, det var så tråkigt!Haha😂 Bra video iallafall!❤️❤️
My Class used to do this too, but here in Germany this is called a "Schnitzeljagd" and we only did this, when we where on what we call a "Landschulheim" , which is an Adventure like Vacation that the whole Class goes to together with the Teachers, which usually takes part in both the Summer Time and the Winter Time, depending on what Location the Class wants to go to!
Gah! We had orienteering day in school on my 15th Birthday (17 years ago now). I hated it and my compass was broken (realized that after an hour and I was totally alone and couldn’t hear or see anyone else), in the woods I saw one control on the other side of a little stream and when I was going to jump across the stream I stepped wrong, twisted my ankle and fell down in the stream and couldn’t come up because I couldn’t use my left foot. I was laying there in the cold stream, calling for help in about 2,5 hours until one of our teachers found me. Everyone else had finished the orienteering but I was missing so the teachers went out in the wood to look for me. Thank God they found me because I was wet, freezing and my ankle hurt so bad. I’m happy we didn’t had to do it again 😄🙏
I hated doing this in school - but it is actually really nice that we got to do this and learn how to navigate
I remember this from when I was young. I was quite good at reading maps, in fact it was to the point that I didn't even understand why we needed to use compass. Many times, I would end up among those early to return despite the fact that I walked in my own leisurely pace simply from the fact that I got everything right on the first try.
We have great use of a compass in flat terrain forests where its impossible to use landmarks, in those terrain areas you must be able to walk in a straight direction , that is really hard to do without a compass because one of our legs is always stronger and that causes us to walk in circles, the only other ways to walk straight in a flat forest is using trees as aiming points and that's time-consuming, difficult and unprecise, or you need a watch and a chart on where the sun is on a specific time of the day (or memorize it).
This video was shot close to a town what I could see, but being out in rural areas or in the total wilderness is a very different experience, walking in the mountain areas you can do with a car map if necessary (thou you cant find swamps and places to cross rivers) because you walking beside huge mountain you cant get lost if you know where you started, but flat terrain forest areas are a total mess without knowledge/equipment.
I know that. I was just talking about my own experiences from when I was young. My dad was working with the forest industry and as such often traveled out into the wilderness with the rest of the family in tow, and even then I had no problem finding my ways around. I just guess that to me, "anything" could be a landmark no matter how trivial it was. I just had this uncanny ability to remember where I had been regardless of terrain and then to use that memory to find my way back, even if it was the first time I had ever been somewhere. In orienteering it was pretty much the same story, all I needed was the map to know where the stations where and the rest kinda took care of itself for me.
Though that said, I am highly doubtful I would be able to replicate those accomplishments these days. Some things just kinda slip as you get older.
I guess you got hold of it by study and take notice of clues that were present, its nice a skill to have, I guess its partly talent and partly learned in young age in a combination.
I experience the same feeling of ability to find the way, but I also have met some people who will be lost "on the lawn behind a bush" just outside the porch door, I myself was born in an area that was close to another area where some people didn't have many roads until 1930:s so they sometimes needed to walk for days through the forest without trails to get to other places, some of this stayed in mind of older generations who could tell some stories to us kids growing up in 60/70:s.
But I guess being lost in the forest is as bad as getting lost in the desert, except that there is maybe a better climate, in our days there are sounds from traffic (if we are not in an extreme wilderness) for us to use as orientation if we are in an emergency situation.
Where I was born there where wast areas of Heath Forest of Pine trees and things looked nearly identical wherever you stod in that forest, anthills was the way to be told where South was and it wasn't too many of them.
Guess that might be it. I guess things such as that just came so naturally that the mere concept of getting lost was something difficult for me to comprehend. Or scratch that, I couldn't comprehend it at all. Navigating by simply remembering where I had been was as natural as breathing to me. And that alongside my uncanny ability to read maps (something that I was never taught, not even by my dad) and early exposure to nature kinda helped fuel it all.
I love doing this in school
I used to Orientera for 3 years when I was younger. I actually like it.
haha its good that you have different maps for each grader because in my school we use the same map every year so you don't have to find the controls anymore because you already know were they are
In the woods near me there are consistently about three different sets of orienteering-check points. ^^ Some of them look like they were forgotten a long time ago though.
I actually miss "orientering". I'm going to the "gymnasiet" now, and we don't do "orientering" anymore. Most people hate running in the woods with a map, but I enjoyed it😂👍
We didn't usually use a compass only landmarks and we did it in an actual forest. I remember one time when the teachers had put one of the checks in an old kalhygge (deforest area) and they put them out a day or two beforehand and it had rained during the night and was raining the whole day we did this. It had turned to a **bleep** swamp. I had water up to my waist trying to get to that **bleep** check but I did take all every time we had this.
We had a full day of orientering over a fairly large forest area, depending on age of course, about once a year, weather didn't matter. The younger you were the closer to civilisation you were and the opposite as you got older. Think the last time I had orientering was in 9th grade, don't remember having it in Gymnasiet but might have.
We also had survival training with a survival expert from the military at the age of 7-8, such as how to read moss, ant hills, sun's location, stars for navigation. We were taught to make up fire, make traps, signaling fires even how to make detergent from ashes and how to stay clean and healthy, what to eat, what to use different plants for, for example plants that had disinfectant properties etc. It was great! Don't remember that much of it though, I was living in a small town at the time.
This was my favorite PE subject in school!
I did orienteering competitively back when. When I went to nursing school in Norrköping, I'd see all the kids being lost in Vrinneviskogen. good times.
One of the things in gym class I was good at already when I was young. It wasn't until Gymnasiet that I got good at most things. Because of being born late in the year among other things.
Run Stefan, run!! It's a sport.... :)
I get flashbacks to when people a head of you used to take some of the controls, climb 12 nesters up the tree and place them there. Same place, 12 meters up. 🙂
We had this in a huge forest at our school during winter at -20 and there were big holes in the ground and everything, some people didn't come back for hours
In my school we have to bloop a kind of electric stick in a tag and when you're done we tag in the finish tag and then they look at the little counter if you got dem
I have mix feelings for it. It is love / hate memories of orienteering.
I hope you will experence night orienteering here in Sweden. It is so much fun. I hope your school will have it. It is a test if you know how to read a mapp even if it is dark outside. I loved it.
I think it was in 8 class or 9 class when my school hade it when i was young.
Its pitch black outside and it was fall. You have only a mapp and a flashlight, nothing else. If its raining you still have to do it.
We learn to read maps when we are very young in school.
My first gym teacher had a version he namned orienteering octupus.
Everyone hade a mapp with only one controll to get a tag mark from to a small paper.
No one hade the same controll to get a tag from on the map. So everyone is running in diffrent directions.
So you had to seek after the orientering controll on your own on the map. None of classmates can help because they are all going to diffrent places. After you find the right controll and get the tag mark on the papper you run back to starting point and get a new map with a new control with tag to run to. And so it goes back and forth.
But to learn to orientering is very usefull and to learning to read the surroundings. Thanks to orienteering I have no problem finding my way in other cities or abroad, reading citymaps or roadmap och museum maps or giving people directions on how to find something. Google maps is good but a normal paper map is still best and easy way and does not go on mobilephone batteries :) So no worries on losing power because you have you read a map :).
If you want to practice on orienteering
You could ask your girlfriend or a friend to take a many picture on something specific and mark it on a normal map and you will have to find the place with the only help of a papper map and take a picture on the same thing as evidence that you have found the right spot. or something like that. :)
Orienteering is such an awesome way to find cool natural features which you’d never find if you didn’t orienteer.
I was never a big fan of the PE classes, being fairly clumsy by nature plus have some balance issues gave me trouble during lessons but I always enjoyed our lessons on orienteering unless the weather was really bad that day.
Having orientering in May-June seems quite lovely. When I went to school it was always orientering on the rainest, coldest and muddiest day in October, and our gym teachers always put the controls at places like "The swamp" or "The Fen" far away in the forest... ("Sankmarken).
It's so lovely to be like 12 years old and feel a bit lost and like you're being dragged down by the mud in some marsh... felt like Frodo, Sam and Gollom walking through the Dead Marches... ok, I might exhaggerate a bit...
3:23 I remember that disappointment, when you finally think you've found it, and then it's some other school's or class' control...
5:28 I remember some girls in our school always cheated they just used somebody elses card and made the correct holes with an ear ring. Or the kids who liked orientering offered to take a whole bunch of cards and "staple" for a lot of people. I didn't cheat though.
Ahhh so true, that would be rough on a rainy day. And the struggle is real when you find the wrong one 😅
reading a map, it's good to learn
Analog geocaching. Thinking back, I did a little bit of orienteering in school, around 5th grade here in western Canada. I don't know if they still do that now, 30 years or so later.
Actually most of the people i know HATE orientering since, i don’t know? Everyone else hate it or something😂 Ive always liked it and i get so happy now when you are so enthusiastic about it😍😍🙏
in danish schools we play "risk" by giving students a card corresponding to a unit from risk. then then run around the coutnryside (in a predetermined area) and try to catch each other in a game of tag. when they catch each other they look at the "risk" cards. the one with the better unit wins the "fight" and has to return to the starting area before continuing to play. those 2 hours alwasy went by way to fast.
Usually you do this as a running race. Trying to find the control points under time pressure.
If you enjoy orientering, have you looked into geocaching? It's sort of similar, but you use an app and gps navigation instead. Many of the targets are in public places and most of them require that you pick them up and register them discretely (I assume it has something to do with people having a tendency to steal, throw away or misplace them otherwise).
i was in the scout corps and always got lost while orienteering, my trick in school was to follow the orienteering dude that competed on a national level and with that i finished 2nd place. i had good stamina and didnt come last, win win, no cheat codes used :D
We have alot of forrest and lakes in Sweden and we like to be outdoor. Hence navigation (orienteering) and swimming are mandatory skills. You need those to get the grades in "sports and health" and can save your life one day.
I was orienteering in the same forest as you, with almost the same controls. It was one of the worst things I´ve done, out of like eight classes it was pouring rain at least seven of them.
orienteering can also be used as a quiz, I've taken part in a few where you have to answer questions, like this fictitious example:
Station 1
5x5 is
A: 25 go to coordinates "A"
B: 20 go to coordinates "B"
C: 30 go to coordinates "C"
Obviously if you get it right you continue with a new question, if you get it wrong you won't find anything and you'll need to go back and try another answer.
Well as a swede who did this a million times i can tel lyou that i never learned how to find these or how to use a map or compass ( could be cause teachers never told us how) :P Thats why you always ran with your friend who did this as a sport :P
I used to hatw orientering. I wansn't much of a nature kid back then like now being a big fishing entusiast. I still did really well though when I put my mind into it. We had a teacher that didn't let us shower and go home until you've completed it xD I liked him though. I also used to be quite into airsoft years back. Renting buidings, play in forests or lake islands etc. I still have a few guns, my Swedish M90 uniform, bennie hat to but twings so on etc. Winth camo to put over, AK5, Swedish utility vest to match... I went full Swedish soldier ;) I'm selling it away though little by little, but I still like to do it casually with friend at our places though.
Me and my friend both sucked at orientering, we got lost in the woods! (We lived in a small community, with only one school, and a really big forrest) We wondered around all day trying to find our way back, and when we finally got back (the last ones) the teachers were about to send out a searh party. Fun memory tho 😂
Hum, here in Norway our orienteering was done not with local reference points but by using a map and compass using distant objects to identify our location.
We first first took the bearing towards one location relative to the magnetic north pole and used that to draw a line on the map from that point across the map.
Then we used the bearing against another point, and where those two lines meet was the location where we where located.
Then we could draw a line from that point in the direction we where heading and identify the angle to that to know where we needed to go.
Of course we also had to keep in mind altitude lines and where it was safe to walk or not.
Yeah, my class failed to find the finish line of our orientation track...
Thankfully our teacher found us fifteen to twenty minutes after we called him and brought us back to the school. =)
(In our defense we found all the other points we where suppose to find, we only got lost on that last one walking through a forest and over a bog)
Hum, do anyone know what "krysspeiling" is in English?
Here's some information about it in Norwegian:
kartogkompass.net/krysspeile.html
4:33 I'm also a p.e teacher and nowadays most schools have electrical devices to make sure there's no cheating. When I went to school I hated orientering because I was so bad at it so me and my friends came up with a system... We made sure we all had earings on the day of the orientering so we could help each other by just making holes with the earings instead of actually going to the control 😅
Väldigt bra video. Jag går i orientering. Jag tycker det är väldigt kul.
Man! I remember one time on orientering when the control was in the wrong place. It was supposed to be by a large rock a bit from the path after just after the path took a sharp turn. I found the rock, but the control wasn't there. I searched for it, because sometimes the controls fall to the ground, but it wasn't around there at all.
I headed further down the path to go back to the starting point to tell my teacher it was gone, when I spotted the control by another large rock. The path was straight by then, so this had to be the wrong place. But it had the correct number. so I got the little stamp from the control, and went back to the starting point (because it was also the last control to find).
I told my teacher about it, and even showed the two rocks on the map, but he wouldn't believe me. Ugh. I don't even blame the ones who set it up, the rocks were kind of close on the map, but that he didn't believe me was the a bit upsetting.
I remember that you talked about outdoor winter sports like ice skating, but don't you guys also do cross country skiing or downhill? Or is that more common up north?
Hej Stefan,
I am studying Swedish and I find your videos really helpful! I will start with an internship in Sweden at the end of August, do you have any tips for me, to increase my level of Swedish? Or things I should visit/ do?
Orienteering was my favourite activity in p.e.
När skolan börjar i slutet av sommaren så har vi orientering 2 gånger i veckan. Very fun:)
Två gånger om veckan?!? Vilken skola går du I?
When I had orienteering in school (now last time was 4 years ago) we didn't even have compasses, I don't think. So I just rotated the map, like by e.g. if I was going down a path I rotated the map so that the path on the map would be pointing directly in front of me. Not sure if that was the best or right way to do it exactly but it made it much more simple to navigate lol
TompanTV You should never rotate the map lol
Recipies For Dummies lol, well i got an A in orienteering so I did something right 😂
TompanTV I got C. :'((
Oh man, this brings me back. How we cheated by trading sheets with other people and making holes through their holes with a pin. :D
Orienteering was one of my least favorite 'P.E' classes growing up. But it's a good thing to learn though!
Malin Lind terrängbanan är värre haha
It is a two year old video but I just want to add that it's sad that the school don't get help from the nearest Orienteering-club on their orienteering days. It is so much more fun if you have different courses and different venues and not the same over and over again. Then you could also do the punching with electronic punching cards and everyone can get a receipt with their split times between each control.
And you are not hiding the controls, you put them up. If you are at the correct spot you should be able to see it without need to search for it.
Everyone's experience of orienteering days would be so much better if they were more professionally organised.
Go watch Sweden-Germany on a pub on saturday, and vlog! :D
This is why we top the all-time medal table in world orienteering championships. Forced upon us (however I love it :) )
The reason Sweden has so few people living in such a large area - most of us got lost in the woods during orienteering day :P
Ush vad jag hatar orientering, är så glad att jag slipper göra det igen!!
Nostalgia
Kinda liked orientering. Noticed some people really cant read maps, even as adults, did conscription duty with some actually, they tried to lead our group into a lake before we took the map of them to get back to base, so having these events for kids really help. Plus, it was a nice opportunity to slack off. Noone is gonna fail a kid for getting the stamps slightly off, so just made sure to bring a pin and stab the paper all over in random patterns, take as many as I could reasonably walk to, and then head back. The teachers never brought it up, probably didnt even check to see if it was right.
Bra jobbat! Jag är dålig på orientering...
They teach useful stuff, like this, and getting out of a hole in the ice.
This is to learn to read a map whit a compass to not get lost or if you are lost
Best thing to do to prevent cheating is to put a double-clamp at one or two posts. In case they are teaming up and have one going one way round and the other going the other way around then use a needle to transfer their half results to each others papers when they meet up, that's what I used to do...Turns out that came around and bit me in the ass when I decided to become a soldier, apparently we need to know that stuff...got decent at it eventually though.
I hated orientering in high school 😂 Even though I had the eeeeeeasiest map (we got to pick between three different maps, easy, middle and hard) I never found the controls.. *sigh* 😅😂
Yeah that was fun in school ^_^
I loved orientering and terränglöpning (cross-country running)
hhahaha great video!!! I had to do that quite a bit in america... it was called Ranger School! & we called it Land Nav. great video!! Keep up the great content!! let's collab sometime
I was thinking that its probably only the scouts or ROTC where they do this in the US. But I was wondering how do you go about land to perform orienteering on? In Sweden we have Allemansrätten that basically allow any swede to travel over private property (as long as you dont damage it) without worry about getting shot by the landowner for intruding. With some exceptions in the form of resctricted areas around nuclear stations and military exercise fields where they do live fire.
So how do you go about it in the US? Are there unowned/government land or do you rent/as permission from a friendly landowner who wouldnt mind some kids running around in his woods?
Vi har orientering ganska ofta på idrotten i skolan✨
Awww i remember doing this in class i Always failed doing this til i got to gymnasiet then i got and A in it :P
Could you normalize the sound please so that we don't have to constantly adjust the volume when switching from loud music to quiet voice? Getting an external mike would also help a lot!
That is true, since this was at school I filmed it on my iPhone. I think the audio is definitely better when I've got my other equipment with me, but in hindsight I could have turned the music parts down a bit. Thanks for the feedback!
Understandable, I pointed out normalization because I remembered watching some other of your videos with the same issue when cutting to music. Other than that I like your content, and keep up the good work!
When I had a orientering dag on my school i don’t find back for a time so I need to run to the place we started on when i find the place