Jörg Madinger - Training of defensive and semi-offensive cooperative defense strategies for handball teams

- After eight actions, the players switch positions again.

Difficulty level:

Minimum number of players:8

Equipment required:3 cones, 2 ball boxes with sufficient number of handballs

Setting:

- Position three cones as shown in the figure.

Course:

- starts to dribble and feints a stem shot (A).

- steps forward into the movement path of and slightly pushes him back (B).

- Afterwards, runs around the left cone (C), receives a pass from into his running path (D), and eventually shots at the left side of the goal as instructed (hands, top, bottom) (E).

- becomes the next defending player, runs around the cone at the 6-meter line (F), and steps forward towards the movement of (H), who has started a piston movement on the right side (G).

- As soon as has pushed back slightly, runs around the cone on the right (J), receives a pass from into his running path (K), and shoots at the right side of the goal as instructed (L).

- And so on.

The players should perform a clear-cut defense action before they quickly adjust and start the shooting action.

Difficulty level:

Minimum number of players:8

Equipment required:6 cones, 2 handballs

Setting:

- Define the running path with six cones as shown in the figure.

Course:

- starts the piston movement on the wing position and passes into the running path of (A).

- does the same running movement in parallel towards the cone (B).

- makes a piston movement in direction of the cone and passes the ball to into his running path (C).

- runs around the foremost cone and then back to the backmost cone (D).

- makes a piston movement in direction of the goal and passes the ball back to (E).

- runs back again and around the foremost cone (F).

- passes the ball back to the wing player and the course starts over.

- , , , and do the same course in parallel on the other side.

must coordinate his running movement in such a way that he is stepping forward as soon as receives the pass and moves backward immediately after he passed the ball.

, , and must move back again immediately after they played the pass so that they are ready to start the piston movement for the next action.