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Get Pictures of O Adventures We have created an LVO Junior Squad Instagram account. If you follow us at Instagram you will be able to get pictures of the squad’s adventures as they happen on your phone, computer, iPad or tablet.  Here is what you need to do. You need to download the app onto your phone, tablet, iPod etc. Then follow the instruction to set up an account. Once you have your account you need to request to follow the LVO Junior Squad. Using the Instragram app press the compass star button on the bottom of the screen. Then type in Read More …

Drum Manor – tricky going Well done to all those juniors who took part in the first colour series of the year on Sat 9 Mar 13. There were some great results and that was all the more impressive as some people were racing at a new and higher level this year. You can get the results at this link.

The next junior training event is at Tyrella South on the 23 Mar. This is an event at which we can put all our learning so far into practice. Go to the training page here for more details.

New article on Bearings – click here!

Andrew highlights how he used some great O skills to locate a tricky control during the NI Score Championships at Florencecourt. I hope to get more juniors to contribute to the blog this way so stand by to be asked. Control 68 was in a re-entrant and worth 20 points How I Did It I was coming from control 67. I ran along the track to the T Junction (keeping my map set). I then turned left and ran to the open ground area with some buildings.  At the back of the buildings I followed a wall up to where Read More …

The Winners – or some of them anyway The NI Prize Giving for 2012 was held today (Sat 23 Feb) after the Score Championships at Forencecourt. Well done to all those LVO Juniors who won – results had been posted previously. Not everyone could make it on the day but a few folks did get their trophies at the ceremony.

The Cairn Wood Crew – Up For It A Step Too Far Junior training this Sat was tough. Not only did we have to read the map and go the right way we had to count as well.  Today was all about knowing how far you had to go by using the map scale to work out the distance and then working out how far you had actually gone by counting your paces.  We started off by learning about the map scales. Did you know that: For a 1:5000 scale map 1 cm on the map equals 50m on the Read More …

Orientating the mapNew article on the ‘Technical’ Page – check it out here!

Map Setting Lesson 1 – Alan’s Team wonder where they are? If You Go Down To The Woods Today….. 10 brave members of the junior squad took part in the training at Hillsborough Forest Park on Sat 9 Feb. The focus of the day was keeping the map set while on the move so we head in the right direction all the time. We practiced this using the features on the ground and relating those to the map. We also got some useful compass skills practice in. Of course it all started with a circuit training session on a hill!! Read More …

Training in Hillsborough Forest Park on Saturday 9th February. Focus will be on map setting and  compass work. Meet at 1230 in the main carpark. Afterwards there will be a score training event(starts 1400). Make sure to email by 6pm on 6th Feb to confirm you are coming so we can print maps (LVOJunO@gmail.com).Allan Bogle is also running a skills training day on Saturday in Hillsborough for more advanced juniors. This is focusing on the bronze skills set outlined here and starts at 1200.