SA Southern Darts Orienteering Squad

The SA Southern Darts caters for young orienteers just entering orienteering (novices)  until they move to high school or the year they turn 12.

Sometimes we train in two groups to allow for experience. 

We hope that members will enjoy orienteering while learning the basics of the sport. 

Gradually you will progress to more difficult courses as  you become more experienced and confident

You will progress to the Junior Arrows when you are old enough. 

The Southern Darts train about once a month.

In addition the Squad conducts Introduction to Orienteering days and camps at Very Easy, Easy and Moderate orienteering skill levels.

The events at which training will be conducted in the near future are detailed below and at others there may be a duty coach to assist Squad members.

For more information, or to let us know that you would like to be a part of the Darts, contact the

Southern Darts Coach: Erica Diment

 If you are interested in becoming a Dart please get in touch with Erica using the above email address

We are happy to add you to our email mailing list so that you keep up to date with what the Darts are doing.

 

Upcoming events:
Here are upcoming dates for 2019

July 14th 

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THE TRAINING PLANNED FOR THIS DAY IS CANCELLED. 

Please come along to the events on Saturday and Sunday and enjoy a feast of orienteering .

Watch the enews and the facebook page for more information about the next opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 News

At our last training we used an exercise on Attack points, first going to the attack point (a red dot on the map) and then fining the cotnrol from there. 

Great work Darts, on completing this course. It was a tricky one because of the type of country that we were in.  The skill of picking Attack Points is a moderate skill, so I would expect for you to be thinking about these form about the age of 10 upwards.  If you completed the exercise but are not yet of that age then you did extra well. 

Thanks to Bridget for setting it for us. 

 

Join the Squad

We love to have new members in our Darts - You don't have to be good at it, you just have to enjoy it and want to get better.  If you've tried orienteering at school or with a friend or your family and you would like to join that is great.  Send us an email and we will link you in to our newsletters so you know when we have events happening.  You can also join our facebook group for updates.