Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, January 25, 2003 V is for videoI looked out my front window a few minutes ago and saw some high school kids making a video. I'm not exactly sure what they're filming, but part of it involves a car driving by, followed by one guy carrying another across the street, and then pushing the guy down on my front yard. Strange.An O' video from Sweden A week or so ago I bumped into a half hour home video from an elite O' race in Southern Sweden. It is (at least for a few minutes) amusing to watch. The video is a "wmv" format (I watched it with "windows media player"). Check out the high quality version or the lower quality version. The images of runners in the forest, most of them top Swedish orienteers, are fun to watch. An O' video from the US USOF put together a pretty slick O' video that premiered at the US Champs last fall. I've seen it and it is good. Here is how USOF describes it: O.MOV, filmed at three meets in Fall 2002, is a fast-paced video which captures the emotion of orienteering. Created by Art Bonanno and Chris Cassone, it features the young energy of the juniors, as well as the broader community. Eight and one-half minutes long, USOF will be selling O.MOV directly for a discounted price until March 15, 2003. I think they plan to make it available as a streaming video on the internet soon. More info is at the USOF O.MOV page. Can you use video to learn anything? I suspect you could learn something by watching videos of orienteers racing. You could get a sense of the running style (and variations in running style). You could study how orienteers behave as they approach and leave a control (the Swedish O' video shows lots of runners arriving at a control, punching, checking their maps and heading off toward the next marker). Maybe you could learn something. Maybe not. You could also conduct some simple tests. How often do orienteers look at the map? If you could video an entire leg (which might be practical in terrain around Laramie, Wyoming, for example), you could probably count how often orienteers are looking at their maps. You could probably figure out where they are looking. Maybe you could learn something. Maybe not. I think it'd be interesting to be able to watch orienteers who are especially good at running down steep hills. Do they do anything different? A training camp might be the place to put some of these video ideas to the test. posted by Michael | 5:35 PM 
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