Friedrich Jahn’s Golden Rules: Game Benefits & Activities

Posted on Apr 3, 2025 in Physical Education

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn’s Golden Rules of the Game

  1. Jettison long and complicated preparations.
  2. Be easy to learn.
  3. Have fixed rules.
  4. Do not rely on mere chance, or usually do.
  5. Do not entertain a very small number of players.
  6. Be in direct relation to the quantity and space.
  7. Dispense with the “players” show.
  8. Mobilize all players to have a balance between activity and rest.
  9. Have variants and do not repeat yourself.
  10. Power replayed with the same or more interest than the first time.

How Games Aid Comprehensive Education

The game is related to 4 areas:

  • Sports
  • School Physical Education
  • Recreation
  • Physical activity

Activity Game Schedules

Take into account according to Hernandez:

  • Prerequisites:
    • Facilities
    • Media materials
    • Time available
    • Subjects: Number, Age, Sex, Level of preparation
  • Program: Evaluation Objectives
    • Contents
  • Preparation:
    • Selection of games to use
    • Election Material preparation of suitable land
    • Delimitation of the field
  • Presentation:
    • Available to participants
    • Explanations and clarifications
    • Demonstration Team building
    • Distribution of papers
    • Distribution of material
  • Implementation:
    • Arbitration
    • Animation
    • Some sporadic participation
    • No paper
  • Rating:
    • Features qualifying score
    • Systems
    • Sanctions
    • Awards

Game Presentation Levels

We can speak of three levels in these games:

  • Games Opened:
    • Submitted to the other in a playful way
    • Very simple games that allow a first approach and contact between the players
    • Are used at the beginning of the formation of a group
  • Games Knowledge: The objective is to enable participants in a session or meeting to know each other. That is a degree greater than the presentation, therefore it aims to reach a deeper, more vital…
  • Games Disinhibition:
    • Aims that the participants themselves caught between confidence
    • Are conducted after the presentation and knowledge
    • Are required in the group of participants a degree of sympathy, harmony, empathy ultimately

Games of Expression

Are those activities that are working on the human body, and its result is an aesthetic representation of the reality of mundo.Existe a relationship between actors and audience for such games.

Features of Expression Games

  • Develop Creativity
  • Develop imagination
  • Imaginary
  • Aesthetics
  • Nonverbal Communication

Mastering Our Body Schema

  • Dominate the body posturally
  • Mastering the body in different equilibria.
  • Mastering the segmental and dynamic coordination
  • Mastering the segmental dissociation
  • Become aware of the possibilities of joint movement, increase the availability motor
  • Discover bodily movements by planes

Raising Awareness of Stress Relaxation Phase Body

Mastering the Sense of Rhythm

  • Identify and internalize rhythms

Enhancing the Expression of Different Body Segments

  • Develop the facial expression, hands…

Develop Communication

  • Mastering visual communication
  • Perform bodily verbal actions

Developing the Imagination

  • Develop imaginative body
  • Develop symbolic play of everyday situations

The main objectives of bodily expression are shaping what is understood and what you feel, show it and knowing how to communicate both individually and collectively.

Games of physical expression for the growth of the child and helps them relate to others and their environment.