Friday 28 September 2012

Application of Tiki Taka tactic

This is how we can play in handball to succeed in attacks. This is also the application of the tactics in my previous post. You can spot the triangles and se the build-up of the attack.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Handball Strategies

Counter-Attack
Team Handball is a fast-paced game and an effective counter-attack can produce high percentage scoring chances.

During lessons, the modified rules actually make it harder to counter-attack. This is intentional to encourage team attack and team defense (versus individual attack and individual defense).

Transitions / Transposition
It is important to learn how to counter-attack quickly as a team because if 
1) the defenders recover quickly, the offensive advantage is lost
2) if your attacking teammate fumbles the long pass or the dribble, the other teammates can assist him. 

Individual Defending Techniques:

Shadowing, Marking, Intercepting, Blocking effectively

Defensive Strategies
Zone Defence: Each player defends a section (usually overlapping another teammate's section a little bit)
Man-to-Man Defence: Each player is assigned to guard and defend a player.
Hybrid Defence: A combination of Zone and Man-to-Man Strategies

For the defensive strategies to be effective, it must be a team effort! 
The objective is to channel the opponent away from the goal (to the sideline or to shoot at an acute angle at the goal <which is a low percentage shot>), to cause mistakes and confusion in the opponents.

Individual Attacking Techniques:
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1. Running into space

2. Changing direction and accelerating suddenly

3. Passing, Receiving, Dribbling and Shooting effectively

Team Attacking Strategies
Use of effective screens, give-and-go, screen-and-roll are all effective 2 or 3 player strategies to gain territory into the opponent's half of the court. 

Remaining teammates can use flanking along the sides to provide support.

Shooting

This comes with practice and experience (as with the other skills)!
Try to shoot with your stronger hand.
Aim at the corners of the goal (if the goalkeeper is near to the goal).
Try to lob the ball over the goalkeeper (if the goalkeeper is away from the goal).
Try faking a shot and passing off at the last moment to your teammate to shoot! This draws out the goalkeeper to commit to the fake shot and provides your teammate an easy shot to score!

Goalkeeping
Daring and experience, the goalkeeper has to have the quickest reflexes of the team (and the most flexible)!
Catches, clears the ball instinctively.
Creates offensive counter-attacks or slows the tempo of the game with patient build-ups to draw the opponent out of position.
Communicates clearly: encouraging, where to mark, who to mark, potential dangers. 


Friday 7 September 2012

Handball Attacking Tactic

Click here to see the triangle method I talked about on the first lesson. It will be useful for the handball attacking tactics.

Monday 27 August 2012

Sec 1: Sports and Wellness Assignment

Hello Sec 1-05,

The Wellness Wheel is commonly used to explain the 6 categories 
(some Wellness Wheels have 7 categories: the extra category is Financial Wellness.)


Figure 1. The 6-category Wellness Wheel
A good website to explain the categories of Wellness here.
A short video explaining the Wellness Wheel below:


Wellness can be defined as:
i) an active process of becoming aware and making choices towards living a healthy and fulfilling life.
ii) achieved by a combination of emotional, environmental, mental, physical, social, and spiritual health.

Fitness can be defined as: 
Good health or physical condition, as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.

Assignment:
Students work in pairs to design a digital poster (soft copy) to illustrate the Wellness Wheel as a secondary school student. 

An example as follows:
Figure 2. Example of the illustrated Wellness Wheel


  • Use 'Pages' and upload your digital poster (landscape or portrait format) to the S&W blog.
  • Additional requirement: Each category to include a daily activity relating with the photo as an example (e.g. Physical Wellness: <activity> for 30 minutes. Picture must be related to the activity)
  • Title of post: <S&W Assignment: Student Name 1, Student Name 2>
  • Date Due: Mon, 10 Sept (Term 4, Week 1)
 
Do post your questions as comments (if there are any).

Mr. Patrick Hiap
School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST) - Sports and Wellness Department 
‘Fit for Work, Fit for Play, Fit for Life’.