“…The tactical model of teaching was derived from ideas of the teaching games for understanding (TgfU) model (Mitchell, Oslin, & Griffin, 2006;Butler & Cahan, 2005) and presented a shift from an instructional approach emphasising learning technical skills called the traditional or technical model (Rink, French, & Tjeerdsma, 1996), for the dominant style of teaching of decision making skills. In the tactical model, teaching technical skills is reduced and follows after the understanding and practice of particular tactical principles, so that movement execution skills are learned in closer connection with the particular tactical problem (Mitchell, Oslin, & Griffi n, 2006;Rink, French, & Tjeerdsma, 1996). However, previous studies on the effects of the tactical model in some sport games provided mixed or controversal results when this model did not demonstrate signifi cant benefi ts in the development of both the cognitive and motor components of game performance in comparison to the technical based instructional models (Harrison, Blakemore, Richards, Oliver, Wilkinson, & Fellingham, 2004;French, Werner, Taylor, Hussey, & Jones, 1996;Turner & Martinek, 1995).…”