1001 – How to use
The material reproduced on this website from ‘1001 Korfball Exercises’ is organised in three chapters:
1 The basics where throwing and catching are considered.
These basics underlie:
2 Individual korfball skills covering shooting, assisting and rebounding, individual attack and defence, breaking free of one’s defender and collective play
3 Korfball, where ‘real’ korfball is brought to the fore: defending as a division, attacking systems, free passes and a large number of forms through which korfball can be trained.
As a book, ‘1001 Korfball Exercises’ was designed to be used in preparing training sessions, rather than read from cover to cover. Ideas from some ten trainers have been worked into the book so that every korfball trainer should find something new to him or her.
The book – and the website even more – therefore operates as a ‘cook‑book’ full of recipes that have been prepared earlier. It is for the reader to choose the recipe he/she wants to prepare. Of course, the recipes can be followed to the letter. But the meal will be most appetising when the reader adds his/her own personal touch.
‘1001 Korfball Exercises’ is packed with exercises, all of which have been tested in practice. The trainer must make a choice from this material and serve it to his/her students. Thus the content can be followed word for word, but it leaves each trainer free to decide where the accent should be. So, in the paragraphs on throwing, catching and shooting, for example, a number of technical exercises are present. But by making these exercises last longer, by increasing the tempo of the exercise or by working with smaller groups, the same exercises can become fitness exercises.
Starting from one exercise, the content frequently presents a series of similar exercises, which can be performed using the same basic organisation. It is not necessarily the intention that all of these variations should be performed in one training session.