Comments on: Improve your Orienteering Skills using a HeadCam: Part 2 http://o-training.net/blog/2011/01/21/improve-your-orienteering-skills-using-a-headcam-part-2/ Your Orienteering Technical Training Resource Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:34:37 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Jan Kocbach http://o-training.net/blog/2011/01/21/improve-your-orienteering-skills-using-a-headcam-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Jan Kocbach Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:31:14 +0000 http://o-training.net/blog/?p=178#comment-23 @Christian: (1) The article you refer to from 1995 is linked to/referred to in part 1 along with several other articles. (2) About the mapreading frequency/attention, that is a topic in part 3 in "improving your general orienteering technique". I won't say that I solve the problem, but I will point at ways to study it. Just a short note here: I think the important thing in this kind of analysis is (a) Compare your mapreading with yourself - at the start of a course and the end of the course (b) Analyze why you read the map for the different mapreading events, and use this to find out if your mapreading technique is good. For example, Baptiste Rollier found that his mapreading time was significantly longer for mapreading event when he was reading the map retrospectively than when being ahead in the map reading, which lead him to make changes in his orienteering technique. (c) Compare your mapreading with others for the same course I also think that rather than using a headcam for this, you should use a automatic map reading detection device - it will give you a lot more information with less work. @Christian:
(1) The article you refer to from 1995 is linked to/referred to in part 1 along with several other articles.

(2) About the mapreading frequency/attention, that is a topic in part 3 in “improving your general orienteering technique”. I won’t say that I solve the problem, but I will point at ways to study it. Just a short note here: I think the important thing in this kind of analysis is
(a) Compare your mapreading with yourself – at the start of a course and the end of the course
(b) Analyze why you read the map for the different mapreading events, and use this to find out if your mapreading technique is good. For example, Baptiste Rollier found that his mapreading time was significantly longer for mapreading event when he was reading the map retrospectively than when being ahead in the map reading, which lead him to make changes in his orienteering technique.
(c) Compare your mapreading with others for the same course

I also think that rather than using a headcam for this, you should use a automatic map reading detection device – it will give you a lot more information with less work.

]]> By: Christian Teich http://o-training.net/blog/2011/01/21/improve-your-orienteering-skills-using-a-headcam-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Christian Teich Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:22:47 +0000 http://o-training.net/blog/?p=178#comment-22 Great work Jan. But how can we say, which is the best frequenz and attention time of mapreading. Because there are several studies, which found out, that mapreading ability is something personal and the best style isn't verfied yet.With Head cam viedeos you can just analyse mistakes and maybe can find the personal error before a mistake. That you can improve your orienteering skllls with headcam analyses was prooved in 1995 by Mclennon and Omodel.: http://www.orienteering.org/index.php/iof2006/content/download/3155/14576/file/Scientific%20Journal%20of%20Orienteering%201995%20(Vol.11)2.pdf Great work Jan.
But how can we say, which is the best frequenz and attention time of mapreading. Because there are several studies, which found out, that mapreading ability is something personal and the best style isn’t verfied yet.With Head cam viedeos you can just analyse mistakes and maybe can find the personal error before a mistake.

That you can improve your orienteering skllls with headcam analyses was prooved in 1995 by Mclennon and Omodel.: http://www.orienteering.org/index.php/iof2006/content/download/3155/14576/file/Scientific%20Journal%20of%20Orienteering%201995%20(Vol.11)2.pdf

]]> By: fromPlanetMars http://o-training.net/blog/2011/01/21/improve-your-orienteering-skills-using-a-headcam-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-20 fromPlanetMars Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:42:21 +0000 http://o-training.net/blog/?p=178#comment-20 Thanks, Jan! Let me add some things. 1) An other 'thing to look' could be the 'timing' (maybe you saved this for part 3). Which tools (map, compass, microuroutechoice) are used when/where? 2) When focusing on details related with mapreading I've made very good results with fixing the camera on my chest about where you usually fix the sensor of your heart rate monitor. From there you can see your mapwork really good. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ajm8HJQYl50/TOTg5heBQZI/AAAAAAAAA6I/mIJPe-Y4Jjk/s1600/17112010_Tex.jpg" rel="nofollow">Here</a> you find a picture of a nice guy with the cam (actually a NOKIA mobile phone) and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ajm8HJQYl50/TOTrupm-8gI/AAAAAAAAA6M/HNOLlEzAOuw/s1600/101117_Screenshot.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a> you can find a screenshot from the cameras perspective. 3) As the cam also records sound, there is the option to let the athlete or the coach having mounted the camera making some live comments also. 4) Maybe calibration is an issue. To know more exactly, where the athlete is looking at, it might be worth to focus on some features & comenting them ahead of the training session. Thanks, Jan!

Let me add some things.
1) An other ‘thing to look’ could be the ‘timing’ (maybe you saved this for part 3). Which tools (map, compass, microuroutechoice) are used when/where?
2) When focusing on details related with mapreading I’ve made very good results with fixing the camera on my chest about where you usually fix the sensor of your heart rate monitor. From there you can see your mapwork really good. Here you find a picture of a nice guy with the cam (actually a NOKIA mobile phone) and here you can find a screenshot from the cameras perspective.
3) As the cam also records sound, there is the option to let the athlete or the coach having mounted the camera making some live comments also.
4) Maybe calibration is an issue. To know more exactly, where the athlete is looking at, it might be worth to focus on some features & comenting them ahead of the training session.

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