定向永遠是最佳運動的十個理由
1. 定向是一項終生運動
一旦你能夠用自己的兩隻腳蹣跚學步，父母就會帶你去參加有趣的定向活動。
定向賽事設有分齡組別，適合 6 歲至 90 歲的跑手參加。
2. 不僅僅是跑步
體能狀況並不是定向的障礙。
許多人在他們的賽程中走來走去，當他們的導航得到改善時，便很不錯的了。
定向的四項類別:
徒步定定向、山地單車定向、滑雪定向及沿徑定向 (讓各類傷健人仕同場公平競賽)。
是任何人仕皆適宜參加的運動。
3. 每項賽事都不一樣
在你的定向賽事中，你跑的路線不會相同的。
這意味著當你出發時總會有未知的元素。
變化多端是定向生活的調味品。
4. 定向是一項友善的運動
定向人喜歡向新人介紹這項運動，並與初學者或年輕家庭分享他們的基本導航技巧。
5. 總有改進的空間
能完美地完成一條定向賽程是很少見的。
即使在你表現最好的一天，你也會因為不同的小錯誤而浪費許多秒時間；
如果你選擇稍微不同的路線，你可能會損失數以分鐘計的時間。
這意味著總有一些你可以做的事情，以及一些可以改善得更好的方法。
6. 定向會把帶你去你從未去過的地方
你會有許多的機會可以去探索通常不會去的林地、沼澤和山谷等等的地方。
7.這是一項全身鍛煉的運動
定向不僅會離開車路，也是會離開山徑進行的。
一但你能參加比初學者的挑戰大得多的賽程，你在路徑上跑的機會是會少得多。
你最終可能會跳過溪流、跨過倒下的樹木或在荗密的叢林中艱苦前進 (通常都是在你迷路時才會發生的)。
8. 不單止會令人變成泥鴨的樣子
雖然定向傳統上與丘陵、森林和公園聯繫在一起，近內在各地的城鎮和城市中出現了一個全新類型的定向賽區。
市區定向將高速跑與快如閃電的導航結合起來。
是探索你從來不知道是存在的某些城市地方的好方法。
由於導航和地圖趨向簡化，更加有效地向新手介紹定向。
9. 你可到世界各地比賽 (不是只限精英運動員)
無論你的定向水平如何，你都可以到多達70個國家/地區參加比賽, 在其他運動項目中並不多見。
當你學會了基本的定向地圖符號，無論你走到哪裡，語言都是一樣的, 都不會有語言上的障礙問題。
很許多國家每年都有舉辦定向節/定向嘉年華, 例如：
瑞典 O-Ringen 的多天定向以及晚上的社交活動
近在市區的比賽是為你提供更多的好方法, 讓你下一次在市區渡假增加一點樂趣(和鍛煉)。
10. 定向帶給你生活上的技能
在這個 iPhone、Google Map 谷歌地圖)和GPS手錶的現代世界中,
為什麼其他人很難記住方向，似乎完全沒有方向感，也不能正確地拿著地圖。
大概這些人是沒有在十歲大時, 就被帶進了幽暗的森林深處而迷路了。
家長帶孩子去定向!
讓他們出去迷路!!
教會他們獨立、冒險和難以辨別方向的挑戰!!!
10 Reasons Why Orienteering is the Best Sport Ever
1. Orienteering is a sport for life
As soon as you’re able to toddle on your own two feet, parents would take you around the funny orienteering.
At the orienteering events, there are age classes that cater to runners from age six to ninety.
2. It’s not all about running
Fitness is no barrier to orienteering.
Many people walk around their courses and can be a good idea whilst their navigation improves.
There are four disciplines of orienteering:
foot, mountain bike, ski and trail orienteering (designed for people of all physical abilities to compete on equal terms).
So there’s something for everyone.
3. Every event is different
In your orienteering lifetime, you will never run the same route twice.
Which means there is always an element of the unknown when you set off.
Variety is the spice of orienteering life.
4. Orienteering is the friendly sport
Orienteers love introducing new people to the sport and share with beginners or young families their basic navigational techniques.
5. There’s always room to improve
There is rarely such a thing as a perfect run in orienteering.
Even on your best day, you’ll have a few seconds wasted for different minor mistakes;
you could have stolen a minute if you’d have taken a slightly different route.
It means there’s always something you can work on and some way to get better.
6. Orienteering takes you to places you’d never otherwise go
You always get to explore woodlands, moors, and valleys you’d never normally go to.
7. It’s a full-body workout
Orienteering is not just off-road, it’s off-trail.
Once you get beyond the easier beginner routes, the courses are designed to avoid paths as much as possible.
You may end up jumping across streams, leaping fallen trees or fighting through thickets of trees (usually only if you’ve got lost).
8. But it’s not all about getting muddy
Whilst orienteering is traditionally associated with hills, forests, and parks, a whole new niche of orienteering has sprung up in towns and cities across the country.
Urban orienteering combines lightning-speed navigation with fast running.
They’re a great way to explore parts of the city you never knew existed.
As the navigation and the maps tend to be much simpler, these can be a great introduction to orienteering for newbies.
9. You can compete all over the world (without being an elite athlete)
There aren’t many sports where you can compete in more than 70 countries, whatever your level of expertise.
Once you’ve learned the basic orienteering map symbols, the language is the same wherever you go.
Many countries hold Orienteering Festivals/Carnivals every year, such as:
O-Ringen in Sweden, multiple days of events with social activities in the evenings.
And urban races are a great way to add a bit of interest (and exercise) to your next city break.
10. It gives you skills for life
In this modern-day world of iPhones, Google maps and GPS watches,
why other people struggle to remember directions, seem to have absolutely no sense of direction, and can’t hold a map the right way round.
These people probably weren’t sent out into a deep dark forest to get lost from the tender age of ten.
Parents take their children orienteering!
Let them go out and get lost!!
It will teach them to be independent, adventurous and non-directionally challenged!!!
