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Dan Chissick - Israel - Team training camp

Team training camp

This weekend we had a training camp for the womens national team. The main subject of the training was "finding controls", which meant that most of the time they were practising fine orienteering in areas with lots of features.At the moment my team is a collection of girls with varying…
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levels of orienteering ability and physical fitness, and lots of spirit and motivation. The only criteria for entering the team (besides competing in the proper categories) are basic ability and a lot of commitment. Over the next few months (and years?) I hope to develop them into good and tough orienteers, who can represent Israel in international competition, but we still have a long way to go.We have an age gap, which I can do nothing to bridge: 5 of the women are aged 27 to 33, while the younger ones are 16-18. There are simply no candidates in between.…

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