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A game for everybody!

Handball – Status Quo 

In spite of all popularity handball is practically not played outside the organized environment of handball 

clubs. 

Handball is rarely part of school sports. 

Specifications – Preconditions – Standards 

•Fixed preconditions for the sizes of goals, balls 

and playing fields 

•A fixed number of players is necessary 

•Numerous complex rules 

Fear of Pain 

•The usual ball is hard and especially hurts 

the children when catching it 

•Beginners are discouraged by the bodyoriented 

aspect of the match (e.g. tacklings) 

•The players have to possess a high degree of 

skills and fitness 

•Handball depends on a organized environment 

and on sports halls 

•A referee or coach is required 

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GOALCHA is… 

inclusion 

a leisure time 

sport and 

modern type of 

handball game 

team play & 

fair play 

no 

competition 

is a game 

without 

referees and 

trainers 

flexible & 

uncomplicated 

reduced to a 

minimum in his 

necessary 

equipment 

can be played 

on every 

surface, indoor 

as well as 

outdoor 



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The GOALCHA-Ball 

• Cuddling & squeezing - the GOALCHA-Ball can 

easily be compressed and always turns back to 

the original form 

• The GOALCHA-Ball is hand sewed out of 

synthetic leather and filled with synthetic wool 

• The ball is not inflated. It is cushy to catch, does 

not bounce and cannot be dribbled! 

• The GOALCHA-Ball is available in two sizes, 

circumference 42 cm and 47 cm 



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GOALCHA in Practice 

• GOALCHA is subdivided in the… 

leisure time sport GOALCHA Street Handball 

… and in the GOALCHA Activities 



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GOALCHA Activities 

GOALCHA Activities: 

• The GOALCHA Activities mostly deal with exercises, 

juggling and different challenges with the GOALCHA- 

Ball 

• How can "I", can "we", interact with the environment 

when there is no 'right' or 'wrong'? 

• The aim is to achieve self-confidence and a feeling of 

skillfulness in the handling of the GOALCHA-Ball 

• Coordination between hand and eyes as well as the 

individual skills shall be improved by the physical 

activity 

• By motivation and rejoice in the game with the 

GOALCHA-Ball will be enhanced 



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GOALCHA Street Handball 

These are the Basic Rules! 

(They can be adapted or changed by the players 

for their own game) 

•Play on one (small) goal 

•No body contact 

•3 steps – no dribbling 

•Fair play – no referees 

•Play e.g. 2 versus 2 or 4 versus 4 

•After a goal or a goal attempt, the teams take 

turns 

• The attackers are now the defenders - one 

defense player is appointed as goal keeper 

• Before an attack can be launched, the 

offensive players must stand with the ball 

behind the line of the goal area 

No lines or regulations to the size of the playing 

field (graphics is an example!) 



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Philosophy 

Motivation: 

• Most of the time every participant has a ball in his hand 

• There is no 'right' or 'wrong‘ 

Inspiration: 

•The participants’ competences and skills must be involved in the activities 

•Time for experimentation 

•Involvement of different cultures of movement, like gymnastics, parkour and other kinds of show 

entertainment, etc. 

Education: 

•The participants must be able to organized activities with the GOALCHA-Ball on their own 

•The participants must spread the GOALCHA-concept according to the youth to youth principle 

•The participants must involve the GOALCHA-ball in various existing games and playing activities 

Inclusion pedagogy: 

•Everybody participates in the process and the activities 

•All participants are to be seen, recognized and, thereby, appreciated 



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Target Groups 

Children – „action“ 

(6-12 year-old) 

• Inherent desire to be active 

• Adopting the leisure hour sports activities 

of the teenagers (Copying the teenagers) 

Youngsters – „experience“ 

(13-18 year-old) 

• Searching for new trends – striking an interest 

in cool sports 

Family entities – „appreciation“ 

Positive interest in new collective leisure 

hour activities for children 

• Acknowledgement of their social 

responsibility – supportive of innovative 

and creative projects 

Clubs – „ involvement“ 

• Positive interest in variable and straightforward 

measures for training 

• Want to inspire and motivate the players 

Schools – „information“ 

• Keen interest in new school and leisure hour activities 

• Handball is not unquestionably part of school sports supply 

• Ambition to inspire and invoke fun and enthusiam by sports and physical 

collective activity among pupils 



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Technical Handball Training with the 

GOALCHA TM -‐Ball 

 

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Technical Handball Training 

The purpose of using the GOALCHA-Street ball in the technical handball training is to 

• Promote the learning situation and the development phase of children’s and youngsters’ technical skills 

with the ball, MOTORSKILLS 

• Develop the patterns of movement, coordination, timing and change of speed in different forms of 

passes, variations of shots and tricks, etc. 

• Players are successful in the learning phase and are not limited by failing grip and control 

• Motivation through success 

• When the patterns of movement with the GOALCA ball are adopted, they are never forgotten, and the 

precondition of executing and performing the technical detail with a traditional handball is literally at 

hand 



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Passes and shooting 

The grib is important and improves: 

• Various types of passes and shots 

• Use the arm in many different positions 

• An “open” or high arm - better chances of 

variations and selecting 

• Involving the hand-wrist 

• Placing the ball around in the goal 



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The throwing arm 

 

• The focus will be on the movement of the arm and the coordination between the arm and the wrist 

• To establish a common framework of reference between players and coach it is useful to distinguish 

between three positions in the implementation of the shot 

High arm 

• Where the focus is on the trip ogthe fingers pointing upwards 

Arm out from the shoulder 

• Where the focus is on the tips of the fingers pointing out towards the wall 

Low arm 

• Where the focus is on the tips of the fingers pointing downwards 



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Theory of the movement of throwing and shooting 

 

The following elements are important in the shot itself: 

•Run-up and change of speed in the last steps 

•The stem step 

•The initial tightening of the muscles – the arm being drawn back 

•The grip of the ball 

•The central movement 

•The acceleration of the throwing arm 

•Arms position 

•The implementation of the wrist . 



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Tricks 

A good grip and control of the ball has a big importance 

for the players’ ability to: 

• Focus on the movements 

• Change of speed 

• The timing 

• Use their shoting arms in connection with the trick 

getting a free and open arm in the last part of the trick 

• The final phase placing the ball around in the goal 

The progression will focus on the timing of: 

• The run-up phase and the movements without the 

ball 

• The distance to the defence 



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Method – best practies? 

• it is important that the distance to the goal is not 

too long, so that the players are not forced to shoot 

hard at the cost of focusing on the movement and 

the execution of the shot 

• It is recommended that you work with relatively 

small goals and goal fields than the traditional 

ones, and that mini courses and mini goals are 

fantastic in this respect. 

• More Focus on the Shot Technique and the 

Placing of the Ball 

• High Activity Level, by 4 to 6 stations in the hall, no 

waiting lines, and many actions with the ball 

• Space and opportunity for practicing and 

experiments with self-elected technical details 

• Discovering new posibilities and potentials for the 

players individual development 

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Training at home 

With the GOALCHA ball the handball players get a 

technique and education ball, which they can use in 

their development and for training purposes, but also as 

part of their playing practices at home, in school, 

among their friends, etc. 

• Experiments and test self-selected technical details, 

without the interference of the coach 

• Copy the professionals skills (Mikkel Hansen ect) 

• Players’ initiative, creativity and experience often 

result in new possibilities and potentials for the 

players’ individual development 



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The GOALCHA TM Promoter 



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Preliminary understanding 

 

The conception and preliminary understanding of GOALCHA TM Street 

Handball of most teachers, pedagogues, trainers, children, youths and 

other interested parties are affected by the values, norms, framework 

and practice of the traditional handball sport. That is 

-‐ A competitive sport with losers and winners, 

-‐ Standardized courts, where you play at 2 goals, 

-‐ Tactics with right and wrong solutions, 

-‐ Physical contact, where tacklings can seem violent, 

-‐ Trainer’s role as a crucial factor, 

-‐ Etc. 

GOALCHA TM Street Handball promoter’s first task to address the 

values, attitudes and guidelines of the GOALCHA TM Street Handball 

concept and, thereby, influence the preliminary understanding and 

attitudes of the parties involved. 

Try and understand 

What we say, is also what we do. 

That is what should promote and develop GOALCHA Street Handball 



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Basic Values and Beliefs 

 

•Everybody is welcome 

•The game can be played everywhere 

•The necessary equipment is reduced to a minimum 

•No organization is necessary 

• It's no competition 



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Arenas of movement 

 

The outdoor areas in the schools, the townscape, the residential 

neighbourhood, etc., hold great possibilities for the GOALCHA 

Street Handball activities. The GOALCHA Street Handball 

Promoter must inspire the participants to innovation and 

creativity, as to the use of the natural terrain and objects of the 

area. 

Such a combination between the GOALCHA Street Handball 

activities in the different arenas strengthens the developmental 

potential of the children and youths, and their motivation to 

participate in the structure of movement/activities of GOALCHA 

Street Handball. 



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The GOALCHA TM Street Handball Promoter’s 

Interactions 

 

what we say, is also what we do 

In practice, the GOALCHA TM Street Handball Promoter must, therefore, 

always begin with some informal, individual, simple exercises and 

tricks, so that the participants are not dependent on cooperating with 

others, and, thereby, they create confidence and comfort with the ball 

and the GOALCHA TM concept. 

By giving the participants time and opportunity to experiment with 

the ball and the potential of their bodies, they are often motivated to 

involve themselves with the activities of GOALCHA TM Street Handball. 

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GOALCHA TM – Planning – Implementation – 

Evaluation 

 



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The GOALCHA TM activity wheel 

 


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GOALCHA TM Street Handball and the Joy Triangle 

 



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GOALCHA on the internet 

www.youtube.com/user/GOALCHA 

www.GOALCHA.de 

Education APP 

www.facebook.com/GOALCHA 



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GOALCHA Contact 

GOALCHA c/o LOT Group Aps 

Vesterballevej 5 

DK-7000 Fredericia 

Tel.: +45 28 55 30 20 

Email: ole@goalcha.de 

Managing director: 

Ole Bruun Andersen 

Thank you for your participation! 

Have a good time! 

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