Minihandball and handball training for young kids
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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 together, and even playing against each other is fun.
This book contains a short introduction to handball for kiddies and young children and its special characteristics as well as example exercises which help to make your training units interesting and more diverse. Following this, there are five complete training units of different difficulty levels that focus on the basic handball techniques (dribbling, passing, catching, shooting, and defending in a game with opponents). The kids are playfully introduced to the subsequent handball-specific basics. At the same time, particular attention is payed to general physical experience and the development of coordination skills.
The exercises are illustrated and described in an easy, comprehensible manner. They can be immediately integrated in every training unit. By using the given training variants, you can easily adjust the difficulty level of the training units to the respective target group. The variants should also encourage you to modify and further develop the exercises to make each training unit a new and more diverse experience for the children.
Autoren-Profil
In 1995, a friend convinced me to join him in coaching a handball youth team (male, under 13 years of age).
This was the beginning of my career as a team handball coach. Ever since I enjoyed working as a coach and had high requirements concerning my exercises. Soon, the standard pool of exercises wasn’t enough for me anymore and I started to modify and develop drills myself.
Today, I coach a broad range of youth and adult teams with different performance levels and adjust my training units to the individual needs of the teams.
A few years ago, I started selling my exercises and drills online at handball-uebungen.de. Since, in handball training, there is a tendency towards a general athletic training that focuses on coordination work – especially in the training of youth teams –, a large number of my games and exercises can be applied to other sports as well.
Get inspired by the various game concepts, be creative, and rely on your own experiences!
Milestones of my career as a coach
- As of July 2012: A-License, DHB
- As of November 2011: Editor (handball-uebungen.de, Handball Practice, and Special Handball Practice)
- 2008-2010: Youth coordinator and youth coach, SG Leutershausen (Germany)
- Since 2006: B-License
Yours sincerely,
Jörg Madinger
