Korfball drills for
At a distance of +/- 15 meters from each other, make two compartments with 4 pilons of 1.5 x 1.5 meters.
Make two teams with an equal number of players.
- Each team has its own compartment.
- The other team tries to conquer the other team's square.
- This happens when 1 striker is standing in the opponent's square and the ball is played by a team-mate.
- They get 1 point. No other players are allowed in the box.
- When the defence intercepts the ball, they may immediately start the attack on the opponent's square.
Variation:
- on time
- with points
- of both teams 1 player is allowed in the box
- no limit on the number of defendants in box
- no limit on the number of attackers in box
- customize size of box
- distance between boxes
- Put 3 pilons in a triangle.
- At pilon 1 and 3, there's one person.
- Person at pilon 1 has a ball, person at pilon 3 runs to pilon 2 and runs back.
- Person at pilon 1 throws the ball when he or she arrives at the pilon, then the person at pilon 1 runs to pilon 2 and back again and gets the ball when he/she arrives at pilon 1 again. And so on.
- 2 people at each post and a ball at both posts.
- Throw the ball to the other side and run after it, makes a run.
- The others who are facing each other do the same.
- You make a run with the second person at the same time. The one who passed first throws the ball to the other side and runs for it. That's how roles are switched.
- The passing is important because there is a fairly large area between the passer and the one who has to run.
- One ball per groups of two/three.
- The players pass until they reach a post.
- At the post both players may shoot once.
- Then they have to pass again to another post.
- All groups just cross each other.
- Whichever team to achieve 15 goals first wins(optional).
- 4 children are standing next to each other, about 5 meters apart.
- 1 child is going to do the exercise:
- Receives the ball at the first pilon, returns it to the player on the other side, and moves on to the second pilon and so on.
- At the back pilon he returns with a full sprint.
- Then switch, everyone moves a place, number 5 does the exercise now.
- Everybody has their turn. Possibly everyone could go 2-3x.
Piggy in the middle:
- You're all standing in a circle and there's one piggy in the middle.
- Briefly repeat how to throw with two hands and how to throw with one hand.
- During this exercise the throwing will be looked at, the good catching will be discussed later on.
Variations: easy to difficult
1. throwing with 2 hands
2. throwing with 2 hands (with tag)
3. Throwing with 2 hands (with a tag and several piggies)
4. Throwing with 2 hands (but throwing with 1 hand is also allowed)
5. throwing with 1 hand
6. throwing with 1 hand (with tag)
7.throwing with 1 hand (with a tag and several piggies)
Based on how goed the exercise is performed you can perform the variations in the exercise.
How do you throw with one hand?
- It's important that the ball is on your hand behind your ear,
- your left foot is in front (if you're right-handed),
- the ball goes past your ear towards the front,
- the body weight goes from the back leg to the front and the wrist is folded,
- after stretching it.
Let's practice:
- the kids stand on a line and all have a ball.
- Everybody throws with 1 hand (their favourite hand) and tries to throw as good as possible with that hand.
- No distance has been agreed to yet.
- Later on, pilons are added so the children really have to throw a certain distance with the ball.
Variation: it is also possible to throw with the other hand
1. Repeat this with two hands
2. Throw with your favourite hand
3. Throw with your other hand
Aimed throw:
- aiming at different parts.
- Repeat first how to throw with 2 hands.
- in front of the chest,
- thumbs behind the ball,
- hands on the sides of the ball (bowl),
- feet a little apart,
- stretching arms and moving your upper body.
- The children throw from a certain distance.
- This distance can increase or decrease if necessary during training.
- The child throws once and then moves on to the next one.
Learning to aim:
1. Throwing a pilon off a cupboard (big pilon = easy, small pilon = difficult)
2. Throwing a ball off a pilon
3. Aiming the ball in a raised post
4. Aiming the ball into a hoop
- When the children have practiced this, you can make this exercise even more interesting later on by using hats.
- Once a 'hit' has been made, the children are allowed to pick up a hat, this way a small game is made of it.
- This can be done when they see that the throwing is going well.
- By observing the exercise I can see which of the f-pupils is ready to throw with one hand.
- I can then guide these children to try to throw with 1 hand.
- It is important that the ball is on your hand behind your ear,
- your left foot is in front (if you're right-handed),
- the ball goes past your ear towards the front,
- body weight goes from the back leg to the front leg.
- and the wrist is flipped,
- after stretching it.
- Work in groups of 2-3 or 4 and a post.
- Players stand in front of each other and throw the ball to each other.
- Player A throws to player B.
- Player A runs towards player B, but then backs away towards the post and gets the ball from player B (deep pass).
- Player A shoots the ball into the post.
- Make sure you run close enough to the post.
- Don't stop running too early and the pass must be precise.
- You can extend the exercise further by passing the ball back to player B instead of taking a shot,
- then it's important that player B makes a running action to become available for a pass.
- There's a pilon 8 meters from the post.
- At this pilon:
- Pilon 1, they touch the ground 10 times and then jump up and stretch out all the way.
- Then they sprint to post 1 and take a dodgeball on the left; shoot on one leg.
- There is another pilon and post next to the pilon and post.
- The pilon is also at 8 meters from the post.
- From post 1, they sprint to pilon 2 and press it 10 times.
- Then they sprint to the post and throw towards the passer under the post and he has a short chance behind the post.
- There is another pilon and post next to the pilon and post.
- The pilon is also at 8 meters from the post.
- From post 2 they sprint to pilon 3 and do 15 squats.
- Then they sprint to post 3 and take a through-ball.
- There is another pilon and post next to the pilon and post.
- The pilon is also 8 meters from the post.
- From post 3 they sprint to pilon 4 and run 4 circles around the pilon.
- Then they sprint to post 4 and take a straight dodgeball; shooting on one leg.
They have 10 minutes to get a total score of 20 with the whole group. If they don't get to this point there is a consequence.
- 50 second full sprint,
- 10 push-ups,
- 10 crunches,
- 10 leg raises,
- Run one round around the whole field.
2 teams of equal size.
- You start with the ball at the pilon.
- It is played over to the second pilon
- the ball mustn't get on the ground,
- or you're gonna have to start over.
- There are a number of checkpoints where new players are ready to play the ball.
- The last in line must score 1 to win.
- you've got four kids per post.
- 3 are the attackers,
- 1 is the defender.
- The attackers must try to score and the defender must prevent it.
- Swap when the attackers have scored 3 times or if they miss off or if it's intercepted by the defence.
- then change roles.
- If the scoring is too easy, you provide a second defender or the attackers must pass first before shooting again.
- If the shooting is too difficult, provide an extra post or the defender must keep one hand on his back or the attackers may run with the ball.