Confident Orienteering

  Two new o-books are coming this fall! Confident Orienteering: A Systematic Approach to Minimising Errors Book 1: Fundamentals was released in October 2023 and has already been translated into 7 languages , alongside the original English version. It had 8 chapters and 140 pages , and I’m still amazed at how warmly it was received by orienteers all over the world. 🌍 As we continued working on the next part of this complete practical guide , it became clear the project had grown into something massive — not least because of the huge number of examples and illustrations included throughout (they are about 250). At this stage, we’re leaning towards splitting the material into two logical volumes to make it easier for readers to absorb step by step. This isn’t a final decision yet, and even the titles below are working titles – but right now, this feels like the most reader-friendly approach: 📖 Book 2 (working title): Planning Reliable Routes – how to design routes that accoun...

 Pick of the week #17/2025 I liked the courses of the event Uppsala Mote Lang (Sweden. 4/21/2025). This leg 2-3  was from the M16 course.   It surprised me a bit because both this leg and the entire course are quite technically challenging. This leg in particular doesn’t have any significant leading lines toward the control point, nor are there any obvious catching features. It's a super technical course. I would have loved to run something like this at 16 and test my skills. Usually, in Sweden (and I analyze a lot of courses), the typical trend is that the course for 16-year-olds is simply an extended version of the 14-year-old course (which itself is an extended version of the 12-year-old course). Meanwhile, the course for 18-year-olds is a shortened version of the 20-year-old course, which is itself a shortened elite course. In this case, however, the course for 16-year-olds is actually a reduced version of the 18-year-old course, and it is significantly more challengi...

  O-Puzzle Series #9 Find the 10 differences. Difficulty level: Hard . Map No. 2 is oriented in the opposite direction to Map No. 1. This increases the challenge. An additional challenging question: One of the maps contains an error in the depiction of a map symbol. Identify this error. The answers are provided below. O-Puzzle Answers: Answers, the second vertion (the maps oriented in the same direction) answer to the additional question: symbol "409 Vegetation: walk, good visibility" must be orientated to the north https://omapwiki.orienteering.sport/symbols/409-vegetation-walk-good-visibility/ Visit our Facebook group  Orienteering Technical Training Also, see my O-Book for advanced runners, which is available in 8 languages. Aleksandr Alekseyonok, March 3, 2025

 How the Book Examples Are Created for "Confident Orienteering. Book 2: Route Planning and Execution" from sketch to finished map Eight people are working to make the examples in the book exceptional. Author: Aleksandr Alekseyonok Editors of the original text: Dmitry Davidovich and Sergey Pisarchik Editor of the cartographic material: Aleksei Alekseyonok Graphic editor: Svetlana Alekseyonok Translator: Andrei Yakovlev English translation editors: Clive Allen and Ross Barnett The picture illustrates the process of transforming an idea into a finalized image for the book. However, image number 4 is still not the final version. You’ll see the completed version in Book 2 , which will feature around 300 such examples. Stay tuned—just a few more months of hard work, and    Confident Orienteering   Book 2 will be ready for readers! My huge thanks to the whole team for your expertise and your work and for being with me on this journey! If you haven't read Confident O...

  🔸 Looking for an Orienteering Coach? 🔸 I offer my services as a coach and consultant in orienteering technique.  I work with both individual athletes and teams. We can train either at training camps or online — the choice is yours! 💪 What I offer: Training to improve your navigation skills, including technical exercises for winter training. Lectures on minimizing navigation errors. Analysis of past competitions to identify problem areas in navigation. Preparation for key competitions in the season. Programs for both short-term courses (you can choose the topic) or for the entire competition season. 🚀 I'm happy to share my ideas and experience to help make your navigation more confident! 🔹  Contact me for more details and to sign up for training. Aleksandr Alekseyonok , author of the book on orienteering "Confident Orienteering" ; co-author of   Faсebook group " Orienteering. Technical Trainings"  e-ma...

 ‘Confident Orienteering, Book 1’ -  Who has done translations into other languages Even before the practical guide  “Confident Orienteering: Systematic Approach to Minimise Errors; Book 1: Fundamentals”   was released, I received a request to translate it into French from   Fabrice Lapergue ,  one of the proofreaders. Fabrice was the first person I made an agreement with to translate my book. Before the book’s release, another proofreader—a coach from Ukraine , Vitalii Petrov — also expressed interest in translating the book, and we reached an agreement as well. He worked on the translation in a group with four other orienteering runners: Dudnik Illia, Kobets Svitlana, Pitirimova Olena, and Polianytsia Stanislav . Once the translator receives translation rights, they typically take control of the project and manage it independently. They handle all aspects, including translation, text editing, layout, book registration in their country, promotio...