Handball: Knock on defence - covering defence

A fun session to use with your whole team. Work on drawing in defenders while teaching your defence to co-operate with each other!

Get your players breaking quickly, drawing in defenders to create space and more scoring opportunities!

Who's defending who? Don't let bad communication at the back jeopardise your team's defensive integrity. Practice stepping forward and defending with this Backline communication session!

The first player waiting in the line passes to blue one on the side of the court and moves forward to receive the return pass.

At this point dependin on where the blue player has received the pass the red defenders should communicate and decide which of them is best placed to come out and defend against the oncoming attacker.

The 'spare' defender should position themsleves beside the green player, ready to intercept the pass from the attacking player.

The two blue players stood on the wings of the court both have several balls at their feet and take it in turns to throw the ball into the central player. Once they have past the ball into the middle-man they should drive forwards, ready to receive the return pass, pivot and try to feed the ball into the red player on their side.

Defenders must communicate amongst themselves to decide on which of them goes forwards to close down the oncoming player and which is remaining to cover the man on the edge of the D.

Blue 1, 2 and 3 are the attackers and are trying to get into a gap between the attackers to release a shot on goal.

The defenders must move laterally and communicate with one another to block off the attack.

Blue players are passing the ball around the area in a clockwise direction with the aim of trying to pass to the green player in the centre.

The two red defenders must work as a team to share the defending responsibilities to successfully close down the blue players every time they receive a pass.