Federazione Italiana Sport Orientamento Delegazione Sicilia

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Description of Federazione Italiana Sport Orientamento Delegazione Sicilia

Italian Sports Federation Orientation Delegation of Sicily is the official body that deals with regional and national orienteering competitions in Sicily. We strongly believe in our slogan: Orienteering is beautiful, it makes your legs and brain move!

First of all, let's explain a little about how it works: those who participate in an orienteering test use a topographic map created specifically for this sport, with conventional signs unified throughout the world. You compete individually or in a team, passing through the various control points located throughout the area. Once you reach the control point you will have to record the passage on your race baton. Whoever takes the shortest time wins; in this sport it is not always the fastest who wins, but the one who is able to orient himself most quickly and make the best route choices.

Naturally, Orienteering can be practiced every day, each with their own objective: the athlete to train, the family and the enthusiast to have fun and spend a pleasant day with friends and in the open air. Obviously, it can be practiced as a competitive sport or simply at an amateur hiking level, alone or in company, for the sole purpose of being outdoors and immersed in nature. For these reasons, the competitions include numerous categories divided by gender, age and level of difficulty.

The best thing is that orienteering unites entire families who, through this sport, perform an excellent physical activity to be practiced while running or as a relaxing walk in the open-air gyms that nature offers us.

This sport can be practiced by practicing four different specialties:

  • Walking: CO
  • By mountain bike: MTBO
  • On cross-country skis: SCIO
  • Precision Orientation: TRAILO

Furthermore, this discipline is also mental gymnastics: the main action of the orienteer is "reading the map" while running and it is a work of recognition-creation of the territory in the imagination, a writing in which the best athletes highlight themselves grasping the nuances with intuition, sensitivity and speed of realization. Entering mapped forests, tackling a route marked on the map with gradual difficulty, encountering forgotten flora and fauna during a competition, are values and motivations that are easy and sufficient for understanding the spirit of the orienteering race. It is no coincidence that the activity of orienteering acquires an educational value that is linked to a way of teaching based on the discovery and valorization of man in relation to the environment. The sports facility is the environment as it is found, be it plain, mountain, city and the topographic maps faithfully represent the territory, in which thoseparticipates and moves, they are defined as "green gyms". The individual is forced to make a continuous active choice in which he is the protagonist. In its essence, therefore, orienteering is a research project on the problems of environmental conservation: in fact, to conserve it is necessary to know, attribute value, assign interest.

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