okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, March 07, 2003
O' running technique
At a training camp I heard Bob Kaill talk about training for running in the forest. Kaill is a Canadian who is an O' trainer in Sweden. He was the head trainer at the O'Ringen Clinic in 1986. In addition to coaching Swedish orienteers, I think Kaill worked with several of the top Canadians.
Kaill felt an orienteer could learn to run through the woods by training to step over obstacles (as opposed to jump over them). He suggested training by setting up a technique loop with lots of stuff to step over. The course could be a short loop with low obstacles and you could set it up anywhere. It doesn't have to be in the forest. You run the course and practice stepping, rather than jumping, over the obstacles. Jumping takes a lot of energy and changes your momentum. Kaill was able to demonstrate how you could get over a fairly high obstacle while keeping your hips fairly level.
I don't remember many of the details of Kaill's lecture (it was in 1986). But, I can picture him demonstrating how you could step over an obstacle without jumping.
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9:09 PM
