Confident Orienteering

  Learning from others' errors #4 Parallel errors are perhaps the most challenging to identify once you find yourself in them. Can you guess why the case shown in the illustration occurred?  Drawing from my own experience and that of other athletes, I can say that it often happens that athletes begin to track their movement on the map beyond the control point circle, even though they are still within its bounds. This tendency is particularly pronounced during physical fatigue. That is what may have happened in this case. Further, once on a similar trajectory, it becomes difficult to discern this deviation, especially when one is confident about being on the planned route. In this particular case, direction control was not adhered to in the initial steps from Control Point 8. The intended path required ascending through a small spur, but the athlete ran alongside the hill instead.  source: https://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180623langD21/ After reading my new book "Confident Ori

  My first Orienteering book is now 2 months old Tomorrow marks the two-month anniversary since I released my first ebook on orienteering title " Confident Orienteering: a Systematic Approach to Minimising Errors. Book 1:Fundamentals"   . What has transpired during these two months with the project? There have been 94 downloads of the English version and 20 of the French version (which was just released a week ago). Is that a lot or a little? On one hand, it averages 1-2 book purchases per day globally, which may not seem like much.  Yet, considering it from a different perspective: 1 Оrienteers from 32 countries have purchased the book! Spanning almost all continents, The list includes countries as distant from me as Chile, Cuba, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Japan. I am truly inspired by the idea that an orienteer from the other side of the globe is exploring my ideas. It's absolutely amazing and an experience I've never had before! 2. Over the past two months, the boo

Learning from others' errors #3 I think that this error (Control 3) happened because the risks were underestimated and, as a consequence, the route planning was not deep enough. Looks like plan was take the control just following the bearing. Here it was necessary to apply aiming-off, or plan how to position yourself accurately and confidently closer to the control.  source: https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Foley-Mountain-Classic/Classic?classId=697741&tab=player I think I'll go with the following plan: from the field to the corner of an impassable marsh; then on to the saddle between the marshes ; then bearing a little to the left of Control, but on the way clarification on cliffs and a small knoll with a small sliff in the lowland.  See here how to make dramaticlly less errors when execing routes:   New e-book on Orienteering for advanced runners  Aleksandr Alekseyonok, December 23, 2023.

Learning from others' errors #2 Could you suppose  what exaclty and in what moment was technically  done incorrectly, what led to these errors?  source https://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/  Aleksandr Alekseyonok, December 6,2023 How to do drametically less errors on courses

"Confident Orienteering" is now also in French  Great news for French-speaking orienteers! Fabrice LAPERGUE from France has translated my recently published book, 'Confident Orienteering.' It is in the final revision stage and will be released before Christmas.  License agreements have already been signed, and the book is currently being translated into Danish and Ukrainian.  If you believe that this book would be useful for orienteers in your country in your native language, please reach out to me. I am offering favorable license terms for the translation of the book.  The English version of the book can be found here. Aleksandr Alekseyonok, December 4, 2023