Handball: Dive Shot Technique - Forward

Stop needless injuries and take the fear out of falling by teaching your junior players' how to fall and land safely after playing a jump shot!

Attacking in the third wave - Use quick passing and movement to get the ball up to your pivot on the edge of the opposition's shooting circle!

Use this step-by-step diving games and technique session to get your players falling safely, using the correct technique, to be safe when you shoot!

Out of the turning movement you make a movement forward with your trunk bent forward.

Diving/ rolling:

1. Take off with one or two feet.

Bend forward with ankle, knee and hip, trunk bent forward, eyes to the goal.

2. After the shot both arms touch the floor because directly after the shot the landing takes place.

3. There must be a fast bending of the arm to cushion the fall, the trunk is brought forward and the head is in the neck.

4. Both legs are bent almost 90 degrees, feet upward. Slide forward on the floor when the chest touches the floor. Head in the neck.

5. Chest, belly and upper leg slide on the floor, while the arms push the body along the floor.

6. The body slides forward, while elbows and wrists are completely bent.

The red player is the tagger and is trying to tag the other players.

When the players who trying to avoid being tagged fall down on a mat they cannot be tagged.

However, there can be no more than two players to a mat so if there are already two players on a mat and a third player jumps on the player who has been on the mat the longest must get off.

Each group has a bench with cones placed on it, a falling mat and a ball.

The objective for players is to try and hit the cones off the bench with a diving shot.

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 laying on a mat, on their belly.

Players are only allowed to stay on the mat 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.