Dynamic games – an efficient method in handball training

Abstract

The bodily experience of children who will be introduced to the handball game is reduced for many reasons whose enumeration does not find its place here. As a result, in order to increase their motor experience, it is necessary to use methods that, in addition to motor involvement, also determine an increased emotional involvement of children. Dynamic games, through their contents, forms and effects, have multiple formative and educational values, being recommended in sports training, especially during childhood. Starting from the child’s spontaneity and pleasure to act and think, the psychomotor activity promotes a harmonious psychophysical development. Through playful pleasure, the child’s motivation for movement, exploration and knowledge to pursue a significant and functional relationship with the environment (understood as space, object, movement, knowledge, relationship) is activated. In this paper, we want to show that the use of dynamic games, especially in the initial phase of handball training, has very good results in the learning of the main technical elements and particularly the increase of children’s ability to apply them during the game. To demonstrate this, we chose two groups of beginners who participated in a one-year training programme. In the training of one group, we mainly used dynamic games, and in the training of the other one, we used classic handball training exercises.