Obstacle course - a terrain strip equipped with various obstacles and engineering structures .
Intended for training military personnel , in order to increase their combat and physical training and the acquisition of skills to overcome the typical obstacles encountered on the battlefield . At trainings are developed: endurance, dexterity and speed of reaction. Allows you to intensify strength training. In one form or another, it exists in almost all the armies of the states of the world and in many power structures and special agencies and services .
The strip usually consists of such obstacles as:
- horizontal log;
- smooth palisade ;
- hedge ;
- picket fence ;
- trench ;
- scarecrow for pricks with a bayonet and a stand for hitting the butt;
- trench for throwing grenades;
- moat ;
- wire fence
- labyrinth ("Snake");
- "Destroyed bridge";
- wall with two breaks;
- "Ruined staircase";
- "Underground hole (pipe tunnel)."
Obstacles can be either portable or permanent (capital), which is more preferable, since it increases the safety of the passage of the strip.
They are arranged at training grounds and in places of permanent deployment of military units . They can take the form of training sites 90 to 40 meters or stretched tracks up to 3-5 kilometers inclusive (usually no more than two). A group or groups of obstacles on a strip can be located on one line, on the entire area of the town in the form of an eight, a tight circle or horseshoe, parallel stripes with connecting passages, and so on, it all depends on the terrain, the availability of material for construction and the imagination of the project manager.
In the Airborne Forces and the Marine Corps, the bands can be greatly complicated by the elements of hand-to-hand combat , mountaineering and parachute training, target shooting , the use of fires, smoke and explosive packs , and water barriers. Installing effigies to practice bayonet fighting, targets for throwing grenades. Common obstacles are modernized: a vertical fence is installed inclined or swinging, the ropes do not stretch and are hung sagging, barbed wire is pulled over a section with muddy soil (dirt), an underground hole is arranged with descents and ascents, and becomes zigzag.
The standard 200-meter obstacle course and training grounds in the Russian Armed Forces are equipped in accordance with the Manual on Physical Training and the Guide to the Construction and Equipment of Sports Facilities in Military Units, Institutions and Educational Institutions.
Competitions in the obstacle course are included in the military triathlon program, and are also held as a separate discipline. At competitions in overcoming obstacles only doubles start is used.
Special-purpose obstacle courses are created for training firefighters and dog handlers with dogs.
For children, as a rule, improvised obstacle courses in the game version are used to organize relay races and increase the attractiveness of physical exercises.
Classroom Safety Measures
The best way to deal with injuries is to prevent them.
Of great importance is a good workout. It increases the elasticity of tendons, ligaments and muscles. This prevents the risk of damage to the musculoskeletal system of the student. First, training is conducted on methods and safe techniques for overcoming obstacles and training in overcoming sections of the strip at a different pace. Companion and self-insurance insurance techniques (falling forward, backward, sideways, from a height) must be mastered by those who practice at the very early stage of training. It is not advisable to practice on wet or wet obstacles (if it is difficult to do this, then it is necessary to oblige the students to overcome them in the safest way and not to introduce time standards, such obstacles as: “destroyed stairs”, “destroyed bridge”, “climbing wall” are most dangerous at this time ", A raised or inclined log, and the like). In winter, the obstacle course must be cleaned of snow and ice, and if necessary, sprinkled with sand or ash.
Before the start of the competition it is necessary to check the correctness of the attachment of ropes, ropes, reliability is established by external inspection and testing, worn ropes, ropes, cables are replaced with new ones. Climbing ropes are hung immediately before the competition, and removed at the end. Particular attention is paid to checking the fastenings of beams, logs, railings, cornices and other parts located at a considerable height. All parts with which the hands and body of the competitors come into contact must not have any burrs, chips, scale, torn joints or irregularities in order to avoid injuries. Pits for landing are dug up or loosened and leveled, foreign objects (stones, glass, wood, plastic debris are not allowed in them, but it is advisable to pour a little sawdust and mix with the ground). Tension bolts and couplings are lubricated and tightened.
General view of the strip
Low barbed wire
Horizontal rope
Climbing wall
Rukhod
"Ruined staircase"
Tilt log
Fallen fence
"Swamp bump"
Straight fence
Inclined climbing wall
rope obstacle option