Jörg Madinger - From warm-up to handball team play

Minimum number of players:6

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:Timer, large vaulting box, deck of playing cards, 10 cones

Preparation:

- Put the cards on top of the vaulting box with the reverse side of the cards facing upwards.

- Define the running paths for the suits of the flipped cards (diamonds, hearts, spades, clubs).

Course:

- On command, and start to run simultaneously and sprint to the vaulting box at the center line (A).

- Each player flips a card. Depending on the suit of the flipped card, the players need to sprint around the respective cone (e.g., clubs = sprint around the first cone, spades = sprint around the second cone) and back (B).

- Then it’s the next player’s turn. Each player has one (two) turn(s).

The losing team must do push-ups or sit-ups.

Variants:

- Hand out the same amount of playing cards to both teams in advance. They need to decide for themselves which player must run the short/long path (tactics). The player puts a card onto the vaulting box and, depending on the card’s “value”, runs around the respective cone and back, etc.

If a player runs the wrong path, he needs to go back and then run around the correct cone.

Topic:Coordination

Minimum number of players:8

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:10 cones

Course 1 (figure 1):

- Once the coach has called out a number (“4” in the example), and simultaneously start to run at relaxed pace.

- and run to the 4th cone on their respective side and touch it (A). Then, both run to the center, exchange high-fives with both hands (B), and run back (C).

Course 2 (figure 2):

- This time, the players need to sprint. The first player who crosses the start line again wins the game. The loser must do an exercise (e.g., 3 push-ups).

- Once the coach has called out a number (“24” in the example), and simultaneously start to run again. The players need to run to the respective cones – hereby, the number of tens applies to the cones on the players’ own side (D) and the number of ones to the cones on the opponents’ side (E) –, touch them, and run back (F).

Course 3 (figure 3):

- Once the coach has called out a number (“325” in the example), and simultaneously start to run again. The players need to run to the respective cones – hereby, the number of hundreds applies to the cones on the players’ own side (G), the number of tens to the cones on the opponents’ side (H), and the number of ones to the cones on the players’ own side again (J) –, touch them, and run back (K).

The coach must call out the numbers loud and clear.

During course 2 and 3, the players should meet in the center so that they need to fight their way to the next cone.

Topic:Coordination

Minimum number of players:8

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:3 small vaulting boxes, 4 cones, 1 whistle

Course:

- , , and each stand on a small vaulting box.

- Once whistles (A), they jump down the box straight ahead at once (B).

- Immediately after he has whistled, and while the players are jumping, raises one hand (right hand in the example (C)), which tells , , and around which cone to run (D) before sprinting to the predefined finish line (E).