Abstract
T. D. Wood proposed his ideas on natural gymnastics in the New Physical Education in 1927. When analyzing it in terms of teaching method, it was considered reasonable to inter-pret the natural gymnastics as the problem-solving method to attain the necessary skills and techniques of sports. But it was eventually interpreted as“preparative activities for the games of sports,"or just“gymnastics"，because the connotation of gymnastic gave the teachers and children only the image of the technical exercises, and it had no teaching of tac-tics and strategies of sports which had better chances to give the reflective thinking to the children in the group works than technical exercises. Therefore, the natural gymnastics was easily practiced as teaching material not as teaching method.
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