Coach Support
Coaching Representatives
Coaching Safety
Registering Coaching Activities
Coaching Logbook
Useful Documents
Sports Medicine
Sports Science
Coaching Links
British Orienteering encourages qualified coaches to keep up to date with the latest developments in sports science, nutrition and coaching principles and practices. Use the links below to search for information related to your areas of interest.
People to Offer Support (Coaching Representatives)
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Scotland |
Lynne Walker |
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Yorks & Humberside |
Nev Myers |
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North West England |
Jon Carberry |
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North East England |
Mick Garratt |
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West Midlands |
Ruth Lockley |
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East Midlands |
Hilary Palmer |
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Wales |
Mark Saunders |
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East Anglia |
Ursula Oxburgh |
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South West England |
Christine Vince |
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South Central England |
Dave Rogers |
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South East England |
Don McKerrow |
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Northern Ireland |
Allan Bogle |
If your query is related to information about the awards or about the administration of your Coach Award or License to Coach please contact the British Orienteering Coaching Department by email.
Coaching Safety
Safety is a key aspect of your training.
- Safety Guidelines for coaching activities in Orienteering
- Safety Guidelines table of 'area types'
- Risk Assessment Form
- Accident Report Form for Coaches
- Medical Data and Parental Consent Form for under 18s
- Criminal Records Bureau disclosure for Scotland
- Criminal Records Bureau disclosure for England+Wales
- O-Safe Protection Policy and Procedures for safeguarding Children and Vulnerable adults
Registering a Coaching Activities
Coaching Acivities must be registered with British Orienteering to be insured. Please contact your Club Fixtures Secretary.
Coaching Logbook
The Coaching Log Book is used to keep records of your coaching.
- Contents
- Step System
- Course Planning
- Session Planner Example
- Session Planner
- Medical Data and Parental Consent Form for under 18s
- Safety Guidelines
- Accident Report Form
- Personal Details
- Course Attendance
- Experience Summary
- Experience Summary continued.
Coaching - Useful Documents
Included is a collection of documents that have been presented at workshops, conferences or clinics and are a useful resource to help you improve your coaching or your personal orienteering skills. They are aimed at everyone from the complete novice, through the regular orienteer looking to brush up their skills, up to the top elites in search of new training ideas and inspiration.
General Coaching Information:
- Coaching qualifications, skills and area progression summary (Hilary Palmer)
- British Orienteering Step System of learning Orienteering skills
- Advice on how to plan easy Orienteering courses
- Technical Difficulty 1 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 2 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 3 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 4 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Technical Difficulty 5 Summary (Carol McNeil)
- Advice for those debriefing athletes after a race or coaching session
- Advice to coaches shadowing juniors around technical courses (Keith Marsden)
- Ideas for indoor Orienteering training exercises
- OCAD advice for Coaches (Oli Johnson)
Newsletters
- Coaching Edge - Issue 1
- Coaching Edge - Issue 2
- Coaching Edge - Issue 3
- Coaching Edge - Issue 4
- Continuing Personal Development update - Aug 2011
- Continuing Personal Development update-Feb 2012
Coaching Conference 2011 presentations
- UKCC L1 cards practical activity (please note file is 4 mb)
- Continuing Personal Development
- Mentoring
- Challenges facing coaching
- Orienteering in Sweden (please note file is 5 mb)
- Sports Psychology
- Coaching 3-5 year plan
Coaching Conference 2012
Presentations
- Slow- A success Story? Don McKerrow
- Physical Conditioning Paul Murgatroyd
- Warm Ups - Paul Murgatroyd
- WOC 2015 Legacy and Development Hilary Quick and Edward Nicholas
Activities Hilary Palmer
Activites Helena Burrows
Sports Medicine
Sports medicine is a multidisciplinary approach to treat injuries, to help prevent them and to instruct and prepare athletes for competition.
Orienteering is a sport where athletes do become injured and sports medicine has a significant role to play in curing and rehabilitating athletes. Interestingly, recent developments in sports medicine are now also focusing on helping athletes and coaches understand how injuries can often be prevented or at least minimised by effective training regimes. The importance of core stability is one such example where improving core stability is believed to reduce the rate of injury to runners particularly over rough terrain.
The Home Countries Institutes of Sport are the first place you should look for support as they have medical teams that understand sport and athletes. If they are unable to assist the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) have lists of contacts that should be able to meet your needs.
Other sources of information about sports medicine can be found at:
- RehabMatters specialises in sports injury and orthopaedic rehabilitation and is dedicated to the prevention and management of sports injuries and musculoskeletal problems
- British Olympic Association (BOA) provides lots of advice.
Sport Science
Many coaches recognise the benefits of having support science support for both their coaching and the individual athlete’s they work with.
What is sport science?
"Sport and Exercise Science is the application of scientific principles to the promotion, maintenance and enhancement of sport and exercise related behaviours" (BASES, 2005). There are three branches of science that study sport; these are biomechanics, physiology and psychology. All are of interest to orienteering coaches although physiology and psychology are arguably seen as having more interest to orienteering than biomechanics.
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) is the UK professional body for all those with an interest in the science of sport and exercise.
British Orienteering recommends that coaches seek sport science support from BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientists. Accredited scientists work to a strict code of conduct to provide a range of sport science services.
Other Coaching Links
Below are a link to Orienteering Club websites that have useful coaching tips. If you want a link to your club or personal website that contains similar material please send a request by email.
- CLOK - An introduction to the basic skills required on an orienteering course
- HH - A series of five skills sheets practising different techniques
- SARUM - Useful hints and tips to improve your orienteering
- SOLWAY - A detailed description of many orienteering techniques
- SWOC - A description of many intermediate and advanced navigational techniques
- WAOC - More descriptions of different techniques
- WSX - A guide to some more interesting aspects of navigation