Korfball drills

• Make a circle at the level of your head on the wall (with sidewalk chalk)
• Make the circle about the same size as a basket.
• Now stand 3 or 4 meters away from the circle.
• Now throw the ball with your left against the wall and catch it with your right hand.
• Do this for one minute.
• The ball must not bounce on the ground.
• If it is too easy, stand further away or try to throw the ball faster. If the exercise is too difficult, try to catch the ball with two hands, but still throw with one hand
  • Or stand a little closer to the wall. (Outdoors exercise)

• We're gonna pass as a group.
• We stand in two rows opposite each other.
• We'll start as follows:
• Pass with two hands, catch with two hands.
• Pass with your good hand, catch with two hands.
• Pass with your good hand, catch with your good hand.
• Pass with the lesser hand, catch with two hands.
• Pass with your lesser hand, catch with your right hand.
• With the whole team, catch and throw well, if you don't do this and the ball falls to the ground 5 times.

For variation, you can also add special ways of throwing (behind the back, through legs, etc.)

• You have two attackers on the side in the middle between two baskets.
• The attacker must try to score with the help of the two players.
• At an interception, the defender becomes the attacker.
• When a goal is scored, the attacker gets a bonus and is allowed to keep attacking, only now he has to attack the other basket.
• When three goals have been scored, the winning attacker is rested and exchanged with a declarer.

In short: practicing various shooting variants in a fun competition form.

• Organization: per group a basket and a ball, the baskets are preferably (but not necessary) arranged in a circle or rectangle.
• The number of persons per group is less important (but all groups are about the same size).
• The first assignment for the groups is: score 10 goals.
• When you have completed this assignment, the person who scored the last goal runs to the trainer to pick up the next assignment.
• Which group completed all assignments first?
• The trainer walks around, encouraging, or correcting.
• He has a piece of paper with him with a row of assignments on it.
• When someone comes to pick up the next assignment, first ask which one has just been done (this can vary considerably over time) and then hand out the next assignment.
• An example list: 10 walk-through balls, 15 penalty shots, 5 8-meter shots, 10 walk-through balls from behind the basket, 5 dodge balls next to the pole, 10 6-meter shots.
• Everything is possible of course, a lot of momentum is gained if the number of goals to be scored is kept small.
• 10 walk-through balls
• 20 small oppertunities
• 6 remote shots
• 10 penalty throws
• 1 backwards

• Three at a basket
• Two shooters in front of the basket at shooting distance 4-6 metres, one rebounder under the basket.
• The shooters take turns shooting, whoever scores first can stay at the basket.
• The losing shooter changes to the rebounder and the new battle begins.
• Option: The shooter who scores three goals first may remain standing.
• Option: In foursomes, you have two teams (one shooter, one rebounder), the losing team switches positions between them.

• Triplets under the basket
• No. 1 shoots from under the basket
• No. 2 catches the ball and shoots from under the basket (there where she/he catches the ball)
• No. 3 catches the ball .........
• Nr. 1 catches the ball ......... etc.
• Whichever team has scored 30 goals first.
• Option, when the ball falls to the ground 1 point deducted from the goal score, less than 0 is not possible.

• One shooter.
• Two catchers.
• Two balls.
• The shooter shoots from an easy distance.
• Because two balls are used, the pace of shooting is high.
• The goal is not to get sloppy but to keep shooting technically and to "automate" the shot.
• You can vary with locations or types of shot (short/distance/shot-through) and so on.

• With groups together.
• The first of the groups will walk around the room, walk to the basket and make a shot from 4 meters.
• As soon as this one is seated, walk to the next one.
• Number 2 also makes a round, walks to the basket and makes a through ball, the third a short chance behind the basket, the fourth a shot behind the basket.
• Then all 4 players take a staff throw and sit down.
• Who is first with the whole group at their basket has won

• 4 against 4.
• Pay attention to the basic set-up, to the ball pace and to the movement of the players, so that there is not just one attacker moving.
• Make the game more surprising by moving the ball, pulling the ball away, throwing it deep, etc.

• Practicing throwing and releasing on the short and long line.
• The declarer stands far from the basket. The archer stands in front of the box at the side of the declarer.
• The archer walks up to the declarer (the short line), receives the ball and shoots.
• The declarer becomes a shooter, the shooter walks to behind the basket, the catcher arrives at the position of the declarer, after the ball is thrown to the next declarer.

Variant:

• The shooter chooses the long line after feinting towards the short line or basket.

• Both variations can be trained with the opponent near the shooter, so that the declarer learns to judge when someone is free.
• Dose the defender. When using a defender, the 2nd declarer (who in fact does nothing) can act as a defender.
• The rotation after the exercise is: declarer becomes defender, defender becomes gunner, gunner becomes catcher and catcher becomes declarer (after a combination with a player).

• Practicing throwing and releasing on the short and long line.
• The declarer stands far from the basket. The archer stands in front of the box at the side of the declarer.
• The archer walks up to the declarer (the short line), receives the ball and shoots.
• The declarer becomes a shooter, the shooter walks to behind the basket, the catcher arrives at the position of the declarer, after the ball is thrown to the next declarer.

Variant:

• The shooter chooses the long line after feinting towards the short line or basket.

• Both variations can be trained with the opponent near the shooter, so that the declarer learns to judge when someone is free.
• Dose the defender. When using a defender, the 2nd declarer (who in fact does nothing) can act as a defender.
• The rotation after the exercise is: declarer becomes defender, defender becomes gunner, gunner becomes catcher and catcher becomes declarer (after a combination with a player).

• Two players stand 7 metres in front of the basket and 8 metres apart.
• A player with the ball under the basket and a receiver slightly behind the basket.
• A player in front of the basket takes the through ball indicated from space, after the other player in front of the basket has received the ball.
• The ball is caught by the receiver.
  • A1 becomes A2,
  • A2 becomes A3,
  • A3 becomes A4 and
  • A4 becomes A1.

What can you see?

• The handler learns that the shooter can only take a walkthrough ball if the throw is prepared calmly, thrown in front of the shooter and the ball is placed at the right height.
• Walking pace and walking distance of the archer can be controlled by the throwing pace, ball path and ball pace.
• Learning to control problems such as timing requires a lot of repetition and sometimes adjustment of the distances used.
• The problems for the shooter, the starting position of the through ball is different because the body is turned to receive the ball, lead to unclean actions. Stay attentive to this.
• The speed of action should be increased.

Variation:

• As exercise 12, but the declarer throws the ball to a shooter who swings out to a position diagonally behind the basket.
• There is a ball through the middle where the declarer from the space in game situation must take into account two opponents, his direct opponent and the opponent of the shooter, after all he is not far from the ball line.

Variant:

• The shooter makes a feint and plays the ball through to the player under the basket who signals a through ball.