Handball: Bench Ball - Mini-Match

un games session for players young and old designed to improve play in tight areas - working on speedy decisions and shooting into the bottom corners!

Two teams stand at opposite ends of the area, each player has a ball, with a line of cones along the middle.

Standing at a distance from the cones (increase/ decrease distance dependant on players' ages) players take it in turns to throw and aim at the cones.

Each cone that a player hits is a point for their team. Once all the cones have been hit the team with the most points is the winner.

In this game players run inside the area and attempt to avoid being caught by the taggers.

Players are safe from being tagged if they are sitting on the floor, with their feet off the ground.

Players are only allowed to stay on the floor for 3 seconds, then they have to get up and run away again.

Tag men are not allowed to wait for the player during these 3 seconds.

Players run around the half court area. Every mat they come to they should perform a forward roll.

Two teams with an equal amount of balls stand inside their own area.

On the coach's call the teams start throwing the balls at the other team (below waist height - players are not trying to hurt one another).

When the trainer whistles again the balls are counted. The team that has least balls in their area wins a point.