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Handball · Basic · b5

Wall handball for a few players

Park or court 15 min 2 to 6 players One room, yard or lane

Ready when: Catch and throw at the wall (b2) started.

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What you are learning

Playing a handball game with only a few players and a chalk goal on a wall: getting free from a defender, keeping to three steps and shooting from outside the arc.

Words on this card Goal area
Goal area
The D-shaped zone in front of each goal, 6 m out; only the keeper may be in it.

Set up

A soft ball; chalk a goal on a wall and an arc in front as the goal area.

Weather: dry ground

The base setup for handball

Show it first for the one teaching

  1. Chalk a goal on the wall and an arc about 3 m out.
  2. Take three steps with the ball and pass.
  3. Shoot at the chalk goal from outside the arc.

Your part while they practise

Join the smaller team; keep the rules simple.

Step by step

  1. Two teams play on the one wall goal.
  2. Nobody steps inside the arc.
  3. At most 3 steps with the ball.
  4. No pushing or holding.
  5. After a goal the other team takes the ball.

How much: 1 game to 10 15 min a session 2 days a week

Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.

The game: First to 10

Two teams play on one wall goal; first team to 10 goals.

Who plays: two teams of 1 to 3 against each other.

How to play, turn by turn
Turns
  1. One team starts with the ball at a line 8 m from the wall
  2. They pass and shoot at the chalk goal from outside the arc; the other team defends
  3. After a goal, a miss or a foul, the other team takes the ball back to the 8 m line
Fair play
A grown-up joins the smaller team and may only pass.
Points
1 goal for each shot inside the chalk goal.
Fouls
The ball goes to the other team
  • Stepping inside the arc
  • More than three steps with the ball
  • Pushing or holding
Winning
The first team to 10 goals.
Stars
  1. 2 goals for 1 star
  2. 5 goals for 2 stars
  3. 10 goals for 3 stars

Easier or harder

Easier

2 against 1.

Harder

Score only with a bounce shot.

What you will see, and what to say

  • a child runs with the ball Three steps, then passCount them.
  • children bunch at the ball Spread out, get freeFind a space.

Self-check

2

Each player scores 2 goals or more in a game.

Stop and get a coach when

A fall or collision causes pain.

Fitness for this

Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.

This card trains shooting, getting free, the step rule.

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