The need for sophistication

If you are a PE teacher, researcher, or coach it won’t be long before you come across the word “affordance”.

Based on a person’s physical capabilities, affordance refers to all the things you can do with an object.

For example, a skipping rope turns into a game of tug of war, high jump, and limbo.

And yet most kids I meet can’t skip.

Before we replace naive simple ideas with complicated ones backed by experts it pays to find out if we understand the simple ones first.