Jörg Madinger - Competitive games for your everyday handball training

Exercise/objective:

- The attacking players try to score 10 points. If they succeed, the defending players must do 10 push-ups, for example.

Variants:

- Without dribbling.

- Jump shot passes.

- The players must play a double pass with the player standing on the box (the return pass must be played to the player who played the initial pass). This is more challenging for the player receiving the return pass. After playing the pass, he must get into space immediately in order to get the ball. The game becomes much faster!

The players must adjust quickly, if the player on the box cannot be played a pass.

The players must already identify the playing/passing possibilities before they receive a pass → Anticipatory playing.

Minimum number of players:8

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:1 handball, 4 cones, 2 small vaulting boxes, playing field suitable for number of players

Setting:

- Put two cone goals and two small vaulting boxes (upside down) on the floor in the corners of the playing field.

- Make two teams.

Course:

- The two teams play team ball against each other and try to score points by doing the following:

Either:

- plays a bounce pass through the cone goal in such a way that a teammate can catch the ball (A).

Or:

- throws the ball into the box in such a way that he can catch it again (B).

Each team defends one cone goal and one box.

Exercise/objective:

- The attacking players try to score 10 points. If they succeed, the defending players must do a predefined exercise.

- The players must adjust quickly, if a target is covered by an opponent.

Variants:

- Allow dribbling.

- No return passes allowed (for larger groups).

- Jump shot passes.

- Passing with the non-throwing hand.

- Do not assign the targets; the players can score points randomly.

- The players can only score a point, if they hit both “targets” (cone and box) one after another.

Minimum number of players:8

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:8 cones, two playing fields suitable for number of players

Setting:

- Define two playing fields of similar size with cones.

- Make two teams.

Course:

- Two teams play team ball against each other in the confined playing field (field 1), observing the following rules:

→ Each player ( , , , and ) must have held the ball once and there must have been at least six ball contacts, for example (A).

→ Afterwards, the player must lay down the ball behind the line of cones in the opposite field (2) (B).

→ Now, there is a switch in ball possession. , , , and do the same exercise in field 2 in order to lay down the ball behind the line of cones in field 1.

→ If players manage to steal the ball, they start the course in the field in which they stole the ball.

Variant:

- Allow dribbling.

Quick adjusting leads to a highly dynamic game.

All players must run at high speed to succeed (laying down/stealing the ball).

Minimum number of players:12

Difficulty level:

Equipment required:1 handball, ½ playing field

Setting:

- Make 4 teams of at least 3 players.

Course:

- The teams play team ball against each other.

- The players play towards one of the side lines; they score points by laying down the ball behind the line (A).

- Which team will play towards which side line will be figured out during the game.

- The players who manage to lay down the ball behind a free line “own” this line throughout the whole game.

- The players who laid down the ball must leave the ball there immediately for the other teams.

- A player of another team may now pick up the ball and start playing towards his team’s line.

- Dribbling is allowed.

Exercise/objective:

- The players must adjust quickly and fetch the ball swiftly in order to succeed again with their team. The individual tasks change permanently.

Variants:

- Jump shot passes.

- Passing with the non-throwing hand.

Minimum number of players:10

Difficulty level: