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

- The defending players play against a single attacking player (here ).

- runs towards the defense holding a ball (A). may do any number of steps without dribbling.

- The defending players try to defend against and to prevent any further attacking actions (B).

- has the following options for scoring:

→ Shot from behind the 9-meter line -> gets two points for each goal.

→ Breakthrough and shot within the 9-meter zone (three points for a goal, two points if manages to shoot at the goal).

→ Pass from within the 9-meter zone to one of the feeders/receivers (C), one point.

- If the defense players tackle in such a way that he cannot do any further actions, he doesn’t get a point.

- , , and each play two attacks (six actions for the defense). Afterwards, add up the points.

- Switch the tasks ( , , and become the defense players; , , and become the attacking players; , , and may take a break and serve as feeders/receivers).

- Each team plays defense one time and offense at least one time.

- Which defending team is best in preventing the attacking players from scoring?

Course 2 (Figure 2):

- The course remains the same; however, now there are only two defending players playing in a slightly smaller field (the defending team of two substitutes one player each after two actions).

The defending players must be willing to get into physical contact and to collaborate to prevent the attacking player from shooting, breaking through, or playing a pass.

The attacking players must move dynamically and must not dread to get into physical contact in order to score as many points as possible.

Difficulty level:

Minimum number of players:3

Equipment required:4 cones and 1 handball per group of 3

Setting:

- Make teams of three, each team having one ball and 4 cones.

- The players stand as shown in the figure.

Course:

- passes the ball to and immediately receives a return pass (A).

- plays a slight banana pass over to (B).

- turns to the wall, bounces the ball once or twice against it and catches it again (C).

- After his pass to (B), tries to get past and into the space between the cones (D and E). steps forward into the movement path of and pushes him past the cone using his arms (F).

- After the action, turns around at once, runs through the cones and to the other side (G), receives the ball from , and immediately plays a return pass (H).