ABSTRACT
‘You need to get higher and to spin faster’. This was the advice I gave on countless occasions to high school physical education students performing front somersaults from a minitrampoline. Not once in my 7 years as a physical education teacher did I explain to the students how those goals could be achieved. I just assumed that having been told to ‘get higher and spin faster’ the students would comply with that instruction. Perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not, but at least interestingly in the context of this chapter, no student ever requested elaboration on the statement. That is, none of them ever said ‘What should I do to get higher?’ or ‘How can I spin faster?’ It seems that there was a lack of curiosity by both teacher and student as to how the goals of achieving greater height and spinning faster could be achieved.
