TEACHING HANDBALL - IHF Handball at School Booklet Series

10.4 Advanced School Curriculum
Handball (5+GK v 5+GK / 6+GK v 6+GK), corresponds to 4 th stage in the teaching process
Tactical problems Decisions and Movements Skills
Fast breaking play
Making forward
progression
Game form (6v6, on
medium-sized or official
court)
Full game (7v7)
Positional play
Understands the waves concept in a large-sized court and tactical
roles in fast breaking play.
Realises when to decrease the pace and rhythm of passing to
build up attack phase.
Ability to generate action (with/without ball)
according to tactical role, within fast breaking
lines (waves).
Executes accurate passes over different distances
(short and long range) and from different
directions to a receiver running forward.
Maintaining ball
possession against
positional pressure
Game form (6v6, on
medium-sized or official
court)
Full game (7v7)
Maintains good spacing on a large-sized court and understands
the tactical roles according to playing position (wings, playmaker,
backs and pivot).
Makes joint efforts to maintain a balanced attack around goal and
attacking continuity against pressuring defence, by employing
switching play concepts (crossing or inter-positional changes) and
ball circulation.
Realises situations of numerical disadvantage on ball side, taking
actions to retain ball possession.
Inter-passing skills under positional pressure
with increased distance between passer-receiver.
Ability to pass from different playing positions
and to perform different types of passes
according to situational constraints.
Ability to generate action, movement according
to the flow of the game.
Breaking through
pressuring zone
defence and attacking
continuity
Game form (6v6, on
medium-sized or official
court)
Full game (7v7)
In 6v6 realises when to employ running inside manoeuvres to
exploit the space behind the defensive line (exterior player runs
to pivot position) or continued pressure play from the exterior.
In a full game, recognises the constraints posed by systems with
different line configurations (3:3, 5:1, 4:2 or 3:2:1) and how to
break through by employing individual-tactical skills and group-
-tactical solutions.
Skills to fake with ball in reduced/tight spaces:
fake passes, fake shots and misdirection penetration
(inwards/outwards).
Ability to employ fast, accurate passes, under
pressure.
Ability to pass ball to the pivot in a timely
manner.
Employs group-tactical actions with higher
intensity, variability and technical consistency.
Attacking the goal
Game form (6v6, on
medium-sized or official
court)
Full game (7v7)
PGF 3v2, with a pivot in
positional areas
Understands the pivot‘s tactical role and generates path of action
in collaboration with exterior players:
- As a pivot, works to get into shielding-receiving position and
moves into open spaces to receive ball or to disrupt defensive
organisation.
- As an exterior player works according to pivot play, adjusting the
attacking trajectory (inward/outward) to make space for the pivot
or to exploit the defender’s reaction to pivot play.
Ability to employ fake actions with ball to
create space for the pivot.
Ability to adopt a shielding-receiving position,
duels inside the defence and shooting
from the pivot position.
Executes straight and misdirection turn to
goal from the pivot position and takes
a penetration shot.
Defensive retreat
Regaining ball possession
and stopping or
delaying the adversary’s
fast transition
Is aware and recognises a situation of fast defensive retreat
to prevent opponents’ fast break.
Employs full court pressure whenever it is more
advantageous than immediate recovery.
Retreating according to tactical roles, situational constraints
and without losing visual control of ball and direct opponent.
Skills to employ individual defensive responsibility
in wide-open spaces.
Watches for ball interception to immediately
counter-attack.
Ability to steal ball without illegal body
contact.
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