Coaching Resources

Manuals

Little Book of O Techniques – Please purchase direct from Author. Refer to Fundraiser: Little Book of Orienteering Techniques
Kiwi-O Manual 2014 (1.13MB) – Orienteering for Schools. For a minimum preparation, minimum equipment, minimum cost orienteering programme in primary and intermediate schools. (Note: A5 page size)

International Specification for Orienteering Maps (IOF ISOM 2017-2) (PDF 8MB)
Orienteering is a worldwide sport. A common approach to the interpretation and drawing of orienteering maps is essential for fair competition and for the future growth of the sport. It is the aim of the International Specification for Orienteering Maps (ISOM) to provide a map specification which can accomodate the many different types of terrain around the world and the many ways of doing orienteering.
ISOM 2017 Orienteering Map Symbols – Single Page Summary (PDF)

International Specification for Control Descriptions (PDF)
Orienteering is a worldwide sport. It is the aim of the IOF control description symbols to provide a stable means for orienteers from all countries to be able to understand control descriptions without ambiguity or the need for language translation. This booklet shows how the symbols can be used to do this.

Control Aide android app is made for both emerging orienteers and long time veterans with the intention to make reading control descriptions like second nature. It aims to achieve this through repetition but also has a useful index to look up and learn any orienteering symbol.
Control Aide on Google Play

The Better Orienteering website https://betterorienteering.org/ – a collaboration by orienteers across the UK and includes a series of videos featuring members of the UK team demonstrating navigation techniques. It’s free to use and simply aims to help people start orienteering and get better at orienteering.
Orienteering Australia – Getting Started Videos
O in a Box (Schools coaching resource) – (South African Orienteering Federation)
“Cool, Awesome and Educational” – Online Resource for School Orienteering Ages 6-12(Sweden)
O-training.net