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Sat 6 Apr 9:00 am
Forest Orienteering and Navigation Skills Day
Smiths Creek Reserve, Campbelltown (meet at Waminda Reserve, Macquarie Av, Campbelltown.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Willan's Hill plus LTO Training session
Lord Baden Powell Drive, Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
2024 Metro League #1 - Appin
Scout Hall, Burke St, Appin

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
NOY1 - Archery Ridge (Elrington)
Archery Ridge (1:10,000)

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Mount Brown
4.5 km on Torryburn Road

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Goldseekers Bush Series #2 - Bridal Track Reserve
Clifton Grove (only a few minutes' drive out of Orange).

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Sat 13 Apr 1:00 pm
Highlands Forest Series #1 - Penrose State Forest
Penrose Forest North, 1:10,000

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Sun 14 Apr 9:30 am
2024 NSW State League #4 - Snow Hills (ACT Classic Series; ACT League #3)
Snows Hill . Mayfield Cross Road, Mayfield. About 1 hour drive south of Goulburn and 1.5 hours east of Canberra

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Sun 14 Apr 2:00 pm
Bluebottles April Camp at Belanglo
Belanglo State Forest.

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Sun 21 Apr 9:30 am
NOY2 - Redgum Ridges (Freemans Waterhole)
 Redgum Ridges 1:10 000

Coaching Resources

Coaching Course materials

Materials for Learn & Play, Competition and Performance are available through Orienteering Australia.

Orienteering Australia Coaching Link

Books

There are many coaching orienteering books available.

Orienteering Services of Australia stocks quite a few.

A recent publication that is excellent and covers introductory through to elite level material is:

Crowood Sports Guides: Orienteering by Carol McNeill.

It can be purchased online through various suppliers.

Online Resources

Sport Australia coach support pages

Orienteering Australia coaching materials

Orienteering ACT coaching tips

Orienteering Queensland coaching tips

British Orienteering Improving Performance

World of O: O-training.net (High quality training exercises)

Newcastle Orienteering Club Coaching Page

Self-Analysis Templates

Here are a couple of tools that Orienteers can open and save and then use to self-analyse their skills and performances:

Skills self-evaluation template

Race Analysis template