Abstract

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model, there is a monthly ‘spotlight’ focus on key models/approaches with the field of Games-Based Approaches (GBAs).
In 1986, Thorpe, Bunker and Almond in Rethinking Games Teaching wrote briefly about the influence of the original Loughborough games teaching team of Allen Wade, Eric Worthington and Stan Wigmore on the idea of using games as the vehicle for the transmission of skills. There is similarity with the pedagogical thoughts in these books to what some sport and coaching scientists espouse as 'contemporary' practice. In this 40th anniversary special blog, we summarise some of the key ideas from Wade (1967) and Worthington (1974).