POSSIBILITIES OF AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE APPLICATION OF GPS DEVICES IN CONTROLLING ORIENTEERING TRAINING

Orienteering belongs to a group of sports that are most difficult to observe. To enable coaches to “get into action” different methods are used. Thanks to the Global Positioning System it is easier now to identify the actual position of an orienteer in action, but there are some constraints on the application of such a system in orienteering. The goal of the research was to consider the possibility of applying modern GPS miniature receivers for recording orienteering routes covered in an afforested area as well as the parameters of training loads. It has been stated that the quality of the record of the covered track is not sufficient to effectively control the quality of task implementation in orienteering. Nevertheless, there are methods of control as well as forms of training in which the application of GPS enhances the diagnosis and registration of training loads.