Handball drills for technique ball control
Warming up:
- Lunge pass.
- Calf raises, possibly on bench, sagging slightly.
- Jumping in place, landing softly on 2 legs, torso straight, knees out.
- Jumping walk on 1 leg, landing softly.
- Lunge stride.
Jump shot exercise:
- Place a marker at the jump spot.
- Player starts from corner, ball is passed with bounce by other player.
- Run up sharply to avoid giving defenders space.
- Lean sideways to prepare the turn.
- Aim in the left-right corner/high low.
- Possibly with goalkeeper.
- Players line up in groups of 3.
- Player in the middle is the loafer and tries to intercept the ball.
- The other 2 may try to make space between the pawns for the pass.
Points of attention:
- Proper throwing technique.
- Hands ready to catch.
- No arc balls.
- Running free, making sure you respond to the loafer.
- All players grab a ball and line up next to each other.
- The trainer stands with ball in front of it.
- The players follow the trainer dribbling as a mirror image. If the trainer goes forward then they go backward, if the trainer goes left then they go right, and so on.
Variation:
- Trainer raises number of fingers and players call out how many; looking over the ball.
- Sit down while dribbling and stand up again.
- Lie down while dribbling and get up again.
- Turn ball around waist.
- Dribbling between the legs.
- At 3 spots(LO/MO/RO) place a dummy or poles with vests.
- Players approach from 1 side, get the ball and after 2 steps from the 2nd line they finish 3 times with:
- High stretch/ swing shot.
- Underhand shot.
- Articulated shot.
- Have left-handed players start on the right.
- Focus on ball control.
- Lots of repetitions.
RH
- Place a marker at the jump spot.
- Player starts from corner, ball is passed with bounce by other player.
- Run up sharply to avoid giving defenders space.
- Lean sideways to prepare the turn.
- Aim in the left-right corner/high low.
- Possibly with goalkeeper.
LH
- Same
- Only right-handed players need to stretch more in time, kink shot in the air.
- Be careful when coming down!
- A square is made with 4 pawns.
- The players stand inside this square and must keep balls thrown into it moving.
- Note the players must work well together because they may only touch a ball once and then move on to another ball.
- Large thick mat.
- 1 player lies on the mat and tries to intercept balls directly or indirectly.
- Always kneeling or lying position.
- 2 duos are facing each other, in between is parallel a line marked with 2 poles.
- There stands a 5th player who tries to intercept the balls, which are passed with bounce.
Good exercise for goalkeepers.
Players stand in pairs in a plank position facing each other.
- Roll 1 ball, right hand to right hand, left hand to left hand.
- Tip to each other.
- Throw over without the ball touching the ground.
- The players stand in a square.
- 1 player throws the ball 1 way and runs in the other direction and moves up one position.
- Note, never throw diagonally.
Players must throw each other off, but may not run with the ball.
- If you are off, then you walk like a zombie to the bench and stand on it.
- If a ball is caught, and someone yells 'zombie ball'! then everyone is free again.
- You may also try to throw off the person who hit you from the bench. Also then you can go back into the field.
Can also be done with 2 teams.
Circuit:
- Zig-zag partoon with flat markers: walk forward and backward, pay attention to light stride, especially forefoot.
- Then dribble to:
- Goal on side next to center line, put bench in front of it. Make jump shot.
- Left of goal 5 pawns: dribble slalom
- Do a head roll on the mat.
- Then to the right, there is a pawn at 6 meters, very diagonal to the goal. Make jump shot at 2 pawns standing in the goal.