Developing Skills and Understanding

There are a number of ways to develop your players' skills and understandings.

Contact your sport to get suitable games, activities and drills for the players that you coach.

In developing skills and understanding:

• Consider the stage of development of your player(s)
• Start in a simple way that ensures success, enjoyment and safety
• Gradually modify the game/activity/drill to make it more challenging.

Sport NZ is encouraging a Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach where the learning occurs in a game or game like activity. Try the one on the right.