Jörg Madinger - Varied handball shooting drills

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Course 3:

- The players hold their arms down and to the side, hinge their wrists back as far as possible (figure 5), and pass the ball to the other player by only moving their wrists (figure 6).

(Figure 5)

(Figure 6)

The pass should be played by only moving the wrist – this applies to each of the three arm positions; the arm must not be moved but rather kept in the respective position.

Category:Technique

Minimum number of players:2

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:1 handball per team of two, 6 cones, large vaulting box, balance bench, 3 medicine balls

Setting of course 1:

- Two players stand face-to-face, each pair having one handball.

Course 1:

- The players keep passing the ball while moving back and forth (A and B).

Variant:

- The players run a slight curve to the left (right) (C) and then pass the ball to their teammate (D).

Make sure that the toes point towards the teammate while passing the ball.

Course 2:

- The players shoot at medicine balls on top of a balance bench (E).

Course 3:

- The players shoot at cones on top of a large vaulting box (F).

Course 4:

- The players shoot at cones on the floor (G).

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 teammate (shooting target) (figure 1). For left-handed players, the movement is done the other way around.

The hip and upper body are rotated backwards. The upper arm and elbow must be in line with the shoulder (figure 1).

(Figure 1)

The players must keep their elbows up while moving forward. The hip and upper body are rotated forward (figure 2).

(Figure 2)

The players must move the backmost foot forward and rotate the arm forward as well (while keeping the elbow up however) in order to get a smooth rotation movement (hip, upper body, and arm) (figure 3).

(Figure 3)

The backmost foot moves forward, the arm swings forward, and finally the ball is being passed to the teammate (shot at the target) by hinging the wrist (figure 4).

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Category:Shooting at fixed targets

Minimum number of players:8

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:4 small vaulting boxes, 4 medicine balls, 8 cones, sufficient number of handballs

Setting:

- The players form pairs. 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).

- 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.

Make sure that the shooting movement is performed correctly (rotate hip and body backwards, elbow in line with the head/shoulder, body rotation, target focus, toes point towards the shooting direction).