Teaching or coaching the action logic of games
The concept of the action-logic of the game , developed by Gréhaigne and his colleagues, is an important concept in understanding game-based approaches (GBAs) to sport coaching and teaching sport in physical education. The concept shifts the focus from sport as a series of isolated technical skills (sport-as-sport techniques: Kirk, 2010) to seeing the game as a dynamic, evolving system of problems that players must solve in real-time (Pill, 2014). At its simplest understanding, the action-logic is the "grammar" or underlying reasoning of a game. It represents the relationship between the conditions of play of the game (rules, space, and time) and the decisions players can make to gain an advantage. The metaphor is that the game is a "debate" between two teams. To "win" the debate, players must be better an understanding the logic governing the current context of the play. This means, the game can be ‘read’. The key component of the action-logic i...
