Handball: Tag - Protect the player

Get your players working together to defend and block - keeping the opposition at bay in this physical defending session

Give your players confidence when defending in a 1v1 duel and work on your libero player's ability to read the game and be in the right place, at the right time

Blue players must work together to try and prevent white players from breaking out of the circle.

To do so they must move quickly to pair up and form a human barrier in front of the white players as they try and burst out.

The player in possession dribbles towards their defender until they are face to face with them.

Once facing the defender they must try and shuffle, run and push past their maker.

Blue players line up behind three cones outside the 9 meter line.

The defender stands between the 7 and the 9 meter line, ready to block the attacker's run.

Attacking players take it in turns to dribble forwards and try and shuffle, feint and force their way past the defender.

After they have completed their run players then move in a clockwise direction to the next group.

Blue players stand behind cones placed in a square, with two defenders stood inside a smaller square contained within the larger one.

The blue player who starts with the ball must dribble forwards and contest the area with the defender. The defending player can only use their torso to prevent the attacker from dribbling any further forwards.

After tussling with the defender the attacker must pass the ball in a clockwise direction to the next player and then run straight across the grid to the back of the opposite line.