HANDBALL ATTACKING DRILLS

Like every ball game attacking is an essential part of the game no team is able to win a game without good attacking skills.

Attacking needs more skills than defense and those skills need to be perfected and merged in a team effort and the handball attacking drills are f great importance to achieve that and they are closely associated with the dribbling drills.

There many attacking drills that the team could try when training to perfect their attacking skills ones cover the regular attacking part and the others cover the counter attack part and the movement without the ball.

Attacking drill 1 : Fixing of the half-center

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handball attacking drill 1

In this drill the N°1 player on the attacking team plays the ball to N°2 who will return it to N°1 , himself will challenge in 1 on 1 the N°5 of the defending team, when he wins the challenge he will pass the ball to N°3 that will attract N°6 and N°7 which will leave N°4 unmarked and ready to shoot the ball.

In case N°6 and N°7 does not leave their positions N°3 could either shoot at the goal or make a lob pass to N°2.

Attacking drill 2 : zigzag attacking 

handball attacking drill 2

In this counter attack drill 3 players are needed N°3 runs straight to the side N°2 runs in the center with the ball with N°1 along the side, they switch positions in the middle of the field and pass tho ball to each other capturing focus from N° going in the opposing direction and finally passing the ball to N°3 in a free position from the other side.

Going in the zigzag and switching the ball and positions gives time to the third player on the opposing direction to go free and drags focus to the other side of the field.

Attacking drill 3 : Back run

Handball attacking drill 3

In this attack drill the attackers switch position and turn the ball along the zone keeping 1 attacking player in the back, then on a sudden move the left attacker goes in a 1 on 1 duel in the middle getting 3 defending players in a small area and just before the duel he passes the ball to the attacker left in the back who is going to be in a full speed run leaving no time for the defending players to react.

Handball attacking drill 3

As you can see when the attacker about to pass the ball there are 3 defenders around him in a packed area while the back attacker is on the run and have 2 options.

To shoot directly on target with the full speed rung which will give more speed to the ball using his whole body weight in the attack or he can at the last moment return the ball back to the first attacker who will be in a free position since the whole attention of the defenders is on the speeding attacker ready to shoot.

These 3 handball attacking drills are very effective and easy to perform and when mastered defending team will have a hard time stop the attack.

These handball drills need continued training to master and good communication on the field, most commonly the opposition's reaction is the same to these drills, but real time modifications can be used since they offer multiple options for each situation.

Handball is no different than soccer it needs concentration and teamwork.