“Potential with handball – Free-throws” is the third topic Felix Linden, 2nd national handball league coach at HSG Krefeld, highlights for the handball-uebungen.de series. Felix Linden sees a lot of potential with free-throw situations – either through direct shots or subsequent playing variants – that is not yet taken full advantage ...
Apart from individual technical and tactical skills, practicing different systems of cooperation may be useful to structure the offense play and force the defense to move in order to score a goal.
This textbook gives detailed step-by-step descriptions of initial actions and possible options for continuous playing against different ...
In modern team handball, the back position players are under high pressure regarding decision-making processes. In fixed positional play, their decisions are often crucial with regard to success or failure of an attack. In order to make the right decision within a fraction of a second, the players must repeatedly do exercises that provide them ...
Goalkeepers are an integral part of the team and may have a great impact regarding the successful outcome of a game. In the daily training routine, however, it is not easy to support goalkeepers adequately. This can be achieved through special training units or exercises for goalkeepers in the second half of the court. Moreover, the team ...
Offensive defense systems are one of the basic elements of youth handball – through creation of large spaces in width and depth, they promote the individual players’ development both as offense and defense players. In the first place, offensive man coverage should be practiced. Through clear, fixed coverage of their respective opponent, the ...
Fast breaks are an important factor for successful handball game outcomes in modern handball. Further positive aspects include motivation of the team through quick goals in connection with demoralization of the opposing team as well as improvement of the attractiveness of the handball game itself. Quick adjustment from defense to offense play ...
The five training units in this book focus on training of handball basic skills for young players aged 9 to 12 years. The individual training units deal with passing precision, shooting movements, dribbling technique, breaking away from man coverage, and passing feints, respectively. The players develop the individual skills methodically and ...
Goalkeeper warm-up shooting is essential for almost every training unit. These 60 warm-up shooting exercises provide you with a variety of ideas to make the warm-up shooting challenging and diverse, both for the goalkeepers and the field players. The exercises particularly focus on improving the players’ dynamics even during the warm-up ...
These training units elaborate initial actions against the 6-0 defense system as well as variable options for continued playing. The first three training units teach the tactical basics of playing against the 6-0 defense on an individual and a small-group basis. This includes the dynamic piston movement with breaking through decisions as well ...
The 3-2-1 defense system is an excellent strategy to put the attacking players under pressure in their initial actions. This often results in quick turnovers and fast breaks. However, a good basic fitness as well as a thorough 1-on-1 defense training are prerequisite for this. To make your youth training comprehensive, include practicing the ...
This is the second time Felix Linden (A-License and certified DHB young talents’ coach for competitive areas) gives insights into his understanding of diverse and focused handball training in the book series of handball-uebungen.de. Based on crossing of the center back and the pivot (circle) – which is part of almost every team’s repertoire in ...
A good defense is a prerequisite for modern team handball. The intention is not only to prevent goals but also to actively win the ball and subsequently initiate a fast attack. The offense should permanently be put under pressure and forced to make mistakes.
The exercises in this collection initially deal with the individual basics of ...
The small group play of the back position players and the pivot is an important offense element in almost each age group. The basics of interacting with the pivot should already be established in the training of youth teams. Positioning and screening play an important role here. The first three training units in the book provide different ...
The present training units can support you in improving your team's handball-specific fitness, especially in terms of speed, speed endurance, and strength.
The strength training units focus on improving core stability with musculoskeletal and dynamic stabilization exercises. Stability plays an important role in handball, as it is ...
Handball needs quick and correct decisions in each game situation. This can be trained playfully and diversely through handball-specific games. These 60 exercises are divided into seven categories and train the playing skills.
The book deals with the following subjects:
- Team ball variants
- Team play with different ...
Handball training for kiddies and young children is different from handball training for older players and considerably different from handball training for competitive players. During their first contact with “handball”, kids should be familiarized with the ball in a playful way. They should be taught that being active, doing sports, playing ...
Shooting is a central component of team handball and must be practiced and improved regularly. Therefore, it is reasonable to integrate shooting series into training units from time to time. This collection of exercises contains 60 comprehensible practical drills focusing on this subject. They can be integrated in every training ...
By making your training units more diverse, you can increase the players’ motivation, since you consistently offer new approaches to improve and refine familiar movement sequences. In this book, you will find inspiring exercises you can apply during each phase of your everyday team handball training – from warm-up and goalkeeper warm-up ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on the saving technique of the goalkeepers for shots at the middle and top of the goal. Good agility is prerequisite for this. Following warm-up, there will be an exercise which combines the basic goalkeeper movements with coordination ladder drills. In the ball familiarization ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improvement of fast adjustment from offense to defense movements. Following a warm-up running exercise combined with an adjustment task and a coordination drill, the players practice how to quickly react to signs during the ball familiarization phase. The goalkeeper warm-up ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on step-by-step development of an initial action in outnumbered situations with a positional change from the center back position player to the 6-meter line (second pivot). Following warm-up and a short game, the running and passing paths for the initial action are introduced ...
Level: Medium
It may happen that several players at a time cannot attend a training unit due to illness. This training unit focuses on series of shots and preparatory exercises for five field players and one goalkeeper. The warm-up phase is followed by a short game, the ball familiarization phase and the goalkeeper ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to practice the interaction of the goalkeeper with his defense players. Following warm-up with a short game, the players practice the legwork required for proper defense play during the ball familiarization and the goalkeeper warm-up shooting phases. With the subsequent ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improving the defense 1-on-1 and 2-on-2 in small groups. Following warm-up and a tag game, the players enter the ball familiarization phase which will involve typical defense movements. This is followed by an individual defense exercise with quick adjustment and the goalkeeper ...