Korfball drills

• 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.

• A defender behind the post, a declarator with the ball under the basket and a number of attackers at 3 metres in front of the basket.
• The learning curve of the dodge ball is covered in these and following exercises.
• The shooter at 3 meter receives the ball, his starting position is the same as for the shot from a standing position, a small spread.
• Move the right leg slightly backwards, find the balance on that right leg by slightly pushing the left leg back.
• From this balance, shoot at the basket.
• Practise shooting on the right leg a few times, then shooting on the left leg.
• Shooter becomes catcher, catcher becomes declarer and declarer rejoins the attackers.

Variation:

• As previous exercise, but the ball is not thrown until the shooter crosses the left foot in front of the right foot (on a swerve to the right).
• The archer has to find the rhythm of the pass to the right, receiving the ball, balancing on the right leg and stretching arms and legs properly for the aimed shot.

• Foursome per basket
• Attacker, catcher, shooter, worker
• Ball starts at the declarator, plays the ball to the worker, who stands left in front of the basket near a pawn, shooter starts right in front of the basket but runs out to the pawn to the right, receives the ball and shoots.
• Changeover shooter --> receiver --> handler --> worker --> shooter

• In pairs, carry the ball across the field by throwing it into the run of the other player.
• Variation with 1 defender, with 2 defenders.

• You make 2 teams and you play with them butter cheese and eggs.
• You have to put a ribbon with your color on the caps who has three in a row first wins.
• If you are out of ribbons you can move your own color.

• Player goes into pump-up position, with the ball in front of him.
• Player leans on his left or right arm, with the other arm he will spin the ball around his supported arm, so 15, 20, 25,...depending on how good the player's condition is....

At the sound of the whistle the players have to do a task.

PART 1: HOOPS / POTS / BALLS

• When the whistle blows, each called number of players must stand at a hoop or ball.
• The last one to arrive and not finding a group to stand with does a small exercise.
• Small exercises:
  • 5x pumps,
  • 10x stretch jump,
  • 5x sit-up,
  • ...

PART 2:INDIVIDUAL

• At the whistle do the exercise, individually.
• Like what?
  • jump up,
  • go through the knees,
  • make a dash,
  • Give each other a high five,
  • ...

Inshort: practise all kinds of forms of the shot from a supporting position.

Organisation: pairs per basket, always one person under the basket and one person in front of it. Change after about 1 minute.

a ) One person in front of the basket at about 6 meters, the shooter stands under the basket. The shooter starts away from the basket (backwards), gets the ball and shoots immediately. The striker catches the ball.

b ) As exercise a., but the shooter only threatens with a shot, lets the defender jump in and then continues with an "underhand pull ball": a kind of private penalty throw from about 5 meters diagonally behind the basket. The Germa-ball - so called by me after Germa Woldhuis of Nic. who had success with this on a regular basis - is practised here. The server catches the ball.

c ) The starting situation is the same, but the shooter now gets a defender with him (some pairs cancel each other out). The defender's task is to decide which of the two possibilities (a. or b.) the attacker will get: either he reacts deliberately too late (after which a shot must follow), or he follows the shooter too closely (thus giving the opportunity for an underhand draw). In exercises d., e. and f., the attacker plays free with one simple movement. An efficient way, which requires however a lot of technique (and thus practice).

• In a hat 1 passer
• Other hat attacker and defender
• Offender moves towards the pass. Defender follows briefly behind. Offender decides when to go inside.
  • Defender allows the pass
  • Defender tries to prevent
  • Defender tries to tackle

• At the basket with the ball
• One player at each hat
• Both players at the hatband walk towards each other
• The attacker goes inside
• Defender reacts and tries to defend
  • Pressure first, allowing the attacker to cross in front of him
  • Defender tries to get in between
  • Defender tries to tackle
• Variation. Service player pulls away for a shot. Defender also tries to defend the shot.
• Goal: good cut-off, calm finish

• It is the same as water-and-fire but in a korfball form.
• On the taggers' side are 5 poles.
• On the attackers' side are 10 balls.
• The attacking side must try to score 2 goals on all the poles.
• Then this pole is free and may not be used.
• But the tappers may tap the attackers.
• If a ticker taps an attacker, he is out.
• If he does not tap an attacker, the attacker is out.
• If an attacker is tagged when he just scored, all players who were tagged off are allowed to play again.
• If two players score on the same goalpost, all attackers are free again.
• When someone has scored, that ball is out of the game, so there are less and less balls and poles left, which makes it easier for the taggers and harder for the attackers.
• If all attackers or all tappers are finished then we turn the functions around.
  
• This game was invented by a boy on my team.
• He always wants to do water-and-fire, but we think we can better do another game that has to do with korfball, so throwing, catching, shooting etc. So he came up with this idea and I did. So he came up with this idea and I must say, it is hard to explain, but it looks very nice.
• The children learn to shoot further than they normally do, because they don't want to be tapped.
• They also learn to move as soon as they shoot, because there might be a ticker behind them.