“…Access to the concept provides for expected controversies that oscillate between strict rejection, ready allowance, and critical pragmatism (Stibbe, 2010). At the same time, the construct of competence establishes for the first time a genuinely empirically connectable core category of sports pedagogy that is designed to be verified-a sports pedagogy, which is in fact "uncircumventable" (Thiele and Schierz, 2003, p. 230) due to the educational policy forced conversion of the school system to output, comparison, and evidence, and which entails a productive scientific (competition) dispute about interpretations, modeling, test criteria, and implementations (e.g., Zeuner and Hummel, 2006;Gogoll, 2009Gogoll, , 2013Kurz, 2009;Balz, 2011bBalz, , 2013Gerlach et al, 2013Gerlach et al, , 2014Neumann, 2013Neumann, , 2014Gissel, 2014;Stibbe, 2018;Thiele, 2018).…”