Teaching games for understanding

So I was incredibly fortunate to get in there, uh, surrounded by international athletes, um, and some of the, the real great teachers, um, particularly in the PE field at, at that, that time.

So, um, I was really lucky to come across Rod Thorpe, Dave Bunker, um, who were developing teaching games for understanding around that time.

So this was really challenging for all of us on the course who come from a very traditional background of this is how we, we teach, which we still see now, of course.

Um, and other people at the course, uh, um, who were teaching at Loughborough at the time, people like Jim Greenwood, who, um, was a, a really deep thinker in, in rugby, and he wrote two books that became my, my bible really when I started coaching rugby, um, a l- little bit later on, Total Rugby and Think Rugby.