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

      

Switch the defending players at regular intervals.

      No. 4: Reaction training with actively stepping forward towards the ball holder

       Difficulty level:

      Minimum number of players: 8

      Equipment required: One cone and one handball per team of 4

       Setting:

      - The players make teams of 4.

      - Put one cone per team on the floor.

       Course 1:

      -

,

plays the initial pass to

(A), who makes a slight piston movement (B) and feints a stem shot.

      -

(C) and gets into physical contact while maintaining a defending body posture (one hand towards the opponent’s throwing hand, the other hand towards his hip) and slightly pushes

back.

      -

to

and vice versa being allowed.

runs forward, his view is not in direction of the attacking players.

      - As soon as

turns around at the cone, the player who is about to receive the ball next, makes a slight piston movement and feints a stem shot (H).

steps forward towards his movement path (J) and slightly pushes him back.

      - Afterwards,

runs around the cone again and the players repeat the course several times.

      - After eight actions, the players switch positions.

      - The other teams of 4 do the drill in parallel.

      

must check who has the ball once he has arrived at the cone in order to step forward towards the respective player.

      

       Course 2:

      - The basic course remains the same.

      - After the initial pass,

makes a slight piston movement (B),

steps forward into his movement path (C) and pushes him back.

      -

passes to

(D), and the attacking players may keep passing freely.

      -

now moves backward to the cone while observing the attacking players.

      - As soon as one of the attacking players bounces the ball once, makes a piston movement, and feints a shot (K),

immediately changes his running direction, runs forward (L) – even if he had not arrived at the cone yet –, steps forward towards the attacking player’s movement path and pushes him back.

      - After eight actions, the players switch positions again.

      No. 5: Stepping forward and moving backward during the goalkeeper warm-up shooting

       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).

      -

and slightly pushes him back (B).

      - Afterwards,

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