Ski-O Inside

05/07/2023

at summer camp with

Day to have a focus on SkiO technical matters.
It's always difficult finding ways to work on that field. Eighter you have a SkiO playground at competitions or you have summer. What we can try to do is to provide isolated elements to focus on and practice and improve skills.
Yesterday it was all about map contact and map handling. With microlabyrinth pairbattles. 90% disq. rate! 😬

Time to think about during afternoons easy run...

More practice required!

19/02/2021

Only a few days left until the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Estonia.
Reason enough to have an eye on the homegrown team. Read more and get a taste of their spirit and emotions on the road to Kääriku.

We met with the most northern folk of Baltics at the beginning of December, during the annual training camp in Äkäslompolo, Finland. As already a tradition, the team stayed there for two weeks to b…

18/01/2021

Competition review from Swedish Cup in Orsa Grönklitt 🇸🇪

Competition review This season, Swedish ski-orienteering introduced a new concept for national ski-orienteering races: Swedish Cup, a national circuit of ski-orienteering competitions, consisting o…

10/01/2021

Nothing can stop us from ski-orienteering! Review of ski-orienteering action in December is now up on our web page, including maps from Japan, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Switzerland.

Ski-orienteering season 2020/21 started in several countries with official or unofficial races. The main hotspot for ski-orienteering in December was undoubtedly Gornozavodsk in Russia, which hoste…

27/12/2020

Inside view and analysis of the Swiss team selection races, which held "in a bubble" in Melchsee-Frutt.

"After all, the ski-orienteering performance seems to be a pendulum between the physical and technical pacing. As better the performance, the less movement in the pendulum. Therefore, we need to work towards more balanced pacing for overall efficient performance to have as fast as possible outcome.

To get there we have two options: to increase the technical speed or to decrease the physical speed. So the key is to use the right option to calm down the pendulum and increase the outcome.“

Competition review Swiss national ski-o team decided to organize selection races for all athletes who are applying for international competitions. To take part in the selection races, all athletes …

30/11/2020

Ski-O season 2020/21 has started! At least in Russia.
Nearly 300 athletes got together in the Perm region, in the city of Gornozavodsk, to take part in the first ski-orienteering races of the season – “Ural Patterns”. Participants were challenged by cold weather (up to -20 degrees), lack of snow, and an extremely challenging ski-orienteering network.

Read more by clicking on the link below!

Competition review Ski-O season 2020/21 has started! At least in Russia. Nearly 300 athletes got together in the Perm region, in the city of Gornozavodsk, to take part in the first ski-orienteering…

30/11/2020

We are living in times of uncertainty, but it doesn’t stop winter sports enthusiasts from looking forward to a new season.

Here is a small insight into national and international competitions scheduled to take place at the beginning of the season 2020/21. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for an epic season!

Competition calendar in December We are living in times of uncertainty, but it doesn’t stop winter sports enthusiasts from looking forward to a new season. Here is a small insight into nation…