The Winning Eye - How to Succeed Through Map Reading

The Winning Eye – How to Succeed through Map Reading by Michel Gueorgiou. Paperback 110 pages, full colour, 2nd edition

This book is suitable for any orienteer as it is intended not only for high-level competitors, but also for sports teachers, scouts, and school children who want to discover orienteering skills in a fun way. Moreover the "Saint Etienne Training Method" can be adapted to the health restrictions imposed by the coronavirus, because most simulation games can take place in any space, without the terrain mapped and with a staggered start so that the orienteers are not in close contact together. After reading workout explanations, any orienteer will be able to design some specific exercises which can be of great help in training, particularly when competitions cannot be held.

In "The Winning Eye", the author sets out his system, which he has named the Saint-Etienne Training Method. Constantly combining map reading with what Gueorgiou calls “piloting”, it is intended primarily for trainers: coaches, club organisers, school and PE teachers, as well as for orienteers who want to progress in competition.

This handbook sets out essential workouts based on more than 3000 training sessions, many of them in the form of simulations, a training concept that the author has always claimed as his own. The merit of Michel Gueorgiou also explains how to adapt his method for young children. All teachers, from kindergarten to high school, will find material for exercises to suit their working conditions.

About the author:

Michel Gueorgiou, PE teacher in college and high school, teacher-trainer and track & field coach, has always been interested in endurance sports. After two victories in the “ SaintéLyon” overnight ultramarathon, he discovered competitive orienteering and was immediately enthusiastic about its possibilities for fun and education. This encounter would lead him to turn from athletics and triathlon and devote himself instead to training an orienteering club, Nature Orientation Saint-Etienne, that would become one of the best in France. His curiosity, his analytical mind, his constant need to optimise everything that can help his students progress, pushed him to develop, as time went by, the training method that is the object of this book - the Saint-Etienne Training Method. The success of this method would lead him to occupy, from 1995 to 2004, the position of national coach at Federation Française de Course d’Orientation, organising both Pôle France in Saint-Étienne and the national team. Their progress culminated in the first world title for Michel’s son Thierry Gueorgiou in 2003.

ISBN10 2956496913
ISBN13 9782956496915