Jörg Madinger - Developing and improving the shooting movement (TU 5)

Description:

This training unit focuses on acquiring and improving correct shooting movements. This means shooting while standing and shooting while running, without a jump however, in order to highlight arm and body movements. Following a warm-up exercise which already involves shots, the players practice the shoulder and arm rotation for shooting and subsequently combine these moves in a passing competition. In a short game, the players implement the shooting movements in a game situation. This is followed by the goalkeeper warm-up shooting and a closing series of shots which focuses on shooting at the goal.

The training unit consists of the following key exercises:

- Warm-up/Stretching (individual exercise: 15 minutes/total time: 15 minutes)

- Ball familiarization (10/25)

- Ball familiarization (10/35)

- Shooting competitions (15/50)

- Short game (15/65)

- Goalkeeper warm-up shooting (10/75)

- Offense/Series of shots (15/90)

Training unit total time: 90 min.

Difficulty:

Low level (all youth and adult teams)

1st English edition released on 18 Oct 2018

German original edition released on 28 Jul 2014

ISBN: 978-3-95641-292-9

Published by DV Concept

Editors, design, and layout: Jörg Madinger, Elke Lackner

Proofreading and English translation: Nina-Maria Nahlenz

This publication is listed in the catalogue of the German National Library. Please refer to http://dnb.de for bibliographic data.

The work and its components are protected by copyright. No reprinting, photomechanical reproduction, storing or processing in electronic systems without the publisher's written permission.

Cone

Attacking player

Defense player

Large vaulting box

Ball box

Small vaulting box

Medicine ball

Large dice

Equipment required:

- 12 cones

- 6 small vaulting boxes

- 2 large vaulting boxes

- 4 medicine balls

- 2 large foam dices (or small dices)

- 2 score cards (see below)

- 2 pens

- 2 ball boxes with sufficient number of handballs

Course 1:

- Each player has a handball. The players crisscross the half of the court while dribbling their ball.

- Once the coach whistles, the players stop, lift their ball over their head with both hands, and vigorously bounce it on the floor so that it flies high up in the air. Afterwards, the players try to catch their ball before it touches the ground.

Course 2:

- The players crisscross the half of the court again. Once the coach whistles, the players run towards the gym wall, bounce their ball against the wall with both hands, and try to catch it (it may bounce on the floor one time).

Make sure that the players hold their ball over their head in such a way that they do not throw with a hollow back.

Course 3:

- The players crisscross the half of the court again. Once the coach whistles, the players run towards the gym wall, bounce their ball against the wall with their throwing hand, and try to catch it (it may bounce on the floor one time).

Course 4:

- The players crisscross the half of the court again. Once the coach whistles, the players run towards the gym wall, bounce their ball against the wall with their non-throwing hand, and try to catch it (it may bounce on the floor one time).

Define different targets (basketball board, goalpost, cross bar...) the players should hit.

Setting:

- The players make teams of 2. Each team of 2 gets a small vaulting box with a medicine ball on top that serves as the target. Define the shooting distance with two cones.

Course 1:

- starts as the shooter, starts as the feeder.

- plays three passes to (A).

- makes a well-controlled rotation movement and shoots (B).

- While doing this, tries to hit the medicine ball.

- Switch tasks after three shots.

- The other groups do the drill in parallel.

- Repeat the drill four times until each player has shot 12 times.

Course 2:

- The basic course remains the same as course 1.

- The shooters shoot three times – from the front center (B), from next to the left cone, and from next to the right cone (C) in order to change the shooting angle and increase the distance.

When the players shoot, observe the following:

The right-handed player moves forward and plants his left foot firmly on the ground, observing the three-step rule. His toes must point towards the shooting target (figure 1). For left-handed players, the movement is done the other way around.