Handball: Bench Ball - Mini-Match

Attackers play give-and-go. Defenders 2 should stay in their hoops. Attacker 1 throws at the goal.

Two set wing players. Attackers 2 and 3 try to score a goal when passing to 1 or 4. Defenders 1,2 and 3 try to prevent passing to 1 and 4 and goal shot.

The 2 attacker must progress up the court and get past both defenders, one at a time before having a shot on goal. Players can use a mixture of passes, feints and fakes to progress up the court.

4 against 4

4 against 4

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.

Mini game of bench ball (played in a smaller area than 1 third of the court), with 1 ball in a 3v3. Players score a point for their side every time they hit the opposition's bench. Players must pass the ball around inside their own half in order to create space for the shot at their opponent's bench.

The castle (a gymnastics mat or bench) is defended by a goal keeper and his knights (the white team). The blue attackers try to bomb the castle by throwing the ball at the bench / mat.

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.

All players have a cone they must protect within a half court area. As a team players must dribble, pass and shoot to try and eliminate all of the opposition's cones. The winning team is the first side to hit all of the other team's cones.

Blue players pass and try to hit the cone the white player must protect by blocking the shots. variations : - more defenders, more cones

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.

Attacker 1 dribble towards the goal and passes to attacker 2 who throws at the goal. Once done, they get their balls back and go to the other queue.

Attacker 2 passes inside to player 1 in the middle. They then deliberately run towards the defender on their side of the court. They continue their run and use a fake to wrong-foot the defender, before pushing off their outside foot and driving off in the opposite direction - ready to receive the pass!

Players stand in line and take it in turns to pass to the feeder (blue 1) and then run forwards to move onto the return pass. Players should look to catch the ball near the 7meter line and take off before the edge of the goal area line on their strong foot. Once they've received the ball players must throw a jump shot before landing as far as possible  inside the D Variations: 3 step rythm (right handers : left,right,left and left handers : right,left,right) 2 step or even in 1 step jumping off : left handers : right foot, right handers : left foot jump off with your 'wrong' foot (1,2,3 steps)

Attacker throws the ball to feeder player in the middle. They then run forward and feint past the defender without the ball before running the other way around the receive the return ball back from the feeder. The attacker then finishes the move with a shot on goal.

Attackers take it in turns to dribble towards the defender and take them on in a 1 vs 1.

Two teams, two areas one or two balls. Try to score a goal by throwing the ball across the back line between the cones.

Two opposing equal sides both start on the baseline of the area with 3 balls on the center line (half as many balls as there are players). On the coach's call players sprint to try and collect the ball and claim it for their team. Once in possession of the ball players are trying to hit the opposition's cones whilst at the same time protecting their own cones. The winning team is the first team to hit all of their opponent's cones.

Four benches make a square. On the benches are the players with handballs. Teams should try to hit the basketball in the center an make it touch one of the other benches : 1 point.