One more video and WC map in 1988

In this video we can see more runners competing in the field.
Pay attention to the last part of the video. The camera man shot at the Westerners changing their clothes. I think he did so because it was a very special scene for the local orienteers. The conservative culture in Asia makes us not to do so in the public. People rather queue up in a small toilet for a dirty but "safe" space to get change.
When I attained my first JWOC in Switzerland, I saw the Europeans taking off their underwear in public. I was shocked. Then I realized that when everyone think it's OK,
it will be OK...


I found a map of the World Cup 1988 in Hong Kong. Its name is Cheung Sheung. The word "Sheung" in Chinese means up/above/on top of... But I don't know how to translate the word "Cheung". Since I started orienteering in 2002, this map has not been used for any open competition. Someone said that it's because updating the map and holding an event there is a very hard work thus no one to do so. What a pity.

HK orienteering in 1988

This is another 20-years-old video, taken in the same race as another video in the previous post. While I was typing that post, I thought all the Westerns were orientters living in Hong Kong. But I was wrong. In the forum where I found the video, someone pointed out that 2 days right after the race was the first round of the World Cup 1988. That's why we can see so many golden hair in the video. For the number of Western orienteers in Hong Kong, it truly decreased because of 1997. The difference is that it did not decreased from a large number to a tiny number. Is from a small number to a tiny number.
Back to the vidoe. This time the camera man walked to the start area and captured the people running on the hills, not forest. Forest in white colour on a gentle landscape is a luxury for Hong Kong orienteers. Most of the maps we run are in green and yellow. See below:

Our new orienteering club

There will be a new orienteering club appear in Hong Kong later on. It is the Hong Kong Island Orienteering Force(HKIOF).
All of the founders, including me, are once a Queen's College student and grew up in the school's orienteering club, QCOC. Now most of us are no more a QC boy so that we decided to form a new club to keep our "fire of O" on.
Last year, the 5 HK JWOC team members are all from QCOC. We enjoyed it. It is undoubtedly a pride for us. I think we should try the same thing again in a WOC, at least.

A 20-years-old video

This is a video taken in Hong Kong on 1-1-1988, while I was still a baby.
It was the Hong Kong National Orienteering Championship 87/88 cum Hong Kong Orienteering Club Championship '87. The camera man just walked around the event center and shooting at the competitors preparing for the race. I could only recognize Yeung Kwok Keung, not his face but his voice. Since Hong Kong was a colony of the Great Britain at that time, we can see quite a lot of western orienteers in the 4-minutes-long video. I think the number dropped sharply because of the coming of 1997. I hope they are still enjoying orienteering in their home countries.
I started orienteering in 2002. Until now, I can see no more than 10 western orienteers who are living here. As I know, most of them came from an orienteering club called Demon Orienteers. They bring their young children out for orienteering, just like most of the orienteering families in Europe. But vary few local parents do the same thing. I asked them why, most answered me that their children prefer playing NDS/PSP to running around the hills. Some may have interests on orienteering, but not at the top priority. I don't know why... Maybe orienteering is not a famous sport in Hong Kong, some schools even do not treat it as a sport. My secondary school moved the orienteering club from the "Sports Union" to "Recreational Activities" two years ago. Another club in that group is Magic Club. Can you see the reason now?