HANDBALL DRIBBLING DRILLS

In handball drills dribbling are as important as attacking drills and are often associated since dribbling is the key to outnumber defense and counter attack with efficiently.

The dribbling drills are important since they give the trainees the chance to practice their ball handling and be able to work on their weaker hand.

It is important that every player on the team to be able to dribble and eliminate defenders in order to go through defense strategies made by defending teams.

Repetition and practice are the key words to master the dribbling techniques needed in handball games.

Dribbling drill 1: Ball thieves

Handball dribbling drills

In this dribbling drill the players should not only be able to dribble with their best hand but with both hands through practice. This exercise improves their focus and agility and their ability to chain more complex movements.

Players dribble a delimited field (goal or surface in the area bounded by the free-throw line). Two or three hunters without ball try to steal one. If they succeed, they become dribblers and the losers take their place.

During the game, the coach hisses at irregular intervals. At this signal, players ask their ball on the floor, quickly find another and earn field across the street where they return their dribble.


Give instructions for dribbling: alternate right hand, left hand, passes the ball between the legs every third dribble, etc.

At the whistle, throw the ball in the air instead of onto the floor.

Dribbling drill 2: king of dribble

The key in this European handball drill is a good coverage of the ball.

The top players in this area will quickly win field.

Players dribble with their own ball. They always begin on the second ground and try to intercept the ball from another. Who loses the duel goes on the third field, while the one who wins will the first field.

A defeat means out of a terrain or stay on the fourth ground. A win means rise of land or stay on the first pitch.

Dribbling drill 3: Transporters

In this drill players alternate between sprints and races with dribble. They improve their ease with the ball, their speed and endurance.

form several teams in the column, three to four players. In front of each column are four to five remote hoops of 3-4 m; the departure is marked by a cone or a pole.

Every player should carry a ball in one hoop to another while dribbling and drop it off. He returns back and passes control to the next fellow. When the ball is in the last Hoop, the child following the rests in the penultimate Hoop, and so on until the ball is found again in the first hoop.

the handball dribbling drills are necessary to practice at least twice a week  they are more important than the attacking drills and equally important as the defending drills.

These drill help out player perfect his ball control and speed with the ball and it allows him to use both hands and keep focus on teammates while holding the ball.