What's handball?

Question

What's handball?

Answer 1

so its basically squash without the racket!!??!!?

Answer 2

who cares what handball is? am i right?

Answer 3

Easton B isnt explaining it! i dont play, but i have watched it! i think hes getting confused with squash!

Answer 4

do i dare answer?

haha

Answer 5

A sport mainly played in Europe. It involves one handball- a smaller than a volleyball, but bigger than a grapefruit and two nets on opposite ends of the floor. For the size of the nets, think about indoor soccer goals. The players are allowed to take 3 steps and then must dribble or pass the ball. Similar to basketball, only with soccer goals and less dribbling and more contact. There is a goalie, which looks like a brutally hard job since the balls are flying at your head pretty quick.

Answer 6

well what happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom but handball is simply a game played late at night with a hot girl and shot glasses and a ball and twister in the dark. popping the porpuse and hiding the weisel.

Answer 7

its almost exactly like soccer but u use ur hands not your feet. haha i played it in PE

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Yes; I agree with those comments and questioning of exactly What constitutes 'Handball'.

When I did my Phys ed degree, they called it European Handball; now, because of the Olympics, they just call it 'Handball'.

Reality is, though, it may be fine for the Europeans to call it 'handball', but in the English-speaking countries, surely the real handball is the longest played version of it:

The game played between 2 to 4 individuals where by you hit the ball off the wall - similar to racquetball w/o the racquet.

That's Handball.

If we are to play the European game, surely in our Anglo countries we should call it Euro-handball or some other name.

Some call it, 'Team handball."

We have also been playing the 'downball' version of Handball off the wall for many decades as well.

Surely that game would also be called "Handball' long before we should consider calling the European game by that name.

And nearly every mother's son has played that game!!

It deserves such an honor by now.

Answer 10

F*ck their answers we played it in gym, its only the coolest F-ing game i ever played in my life. Seriously, you throw a ball to your team mates and try to shoot it in the goal, pretty much it...except when the other team has it and your coach isn't looking you get in there "space" (arms length) and taunt them and sometimes talk c**p about their moms its f-ing GREAT! lol

Answer 11

Handball is a sport played by g*y dudes somewhere other then america.

Answer 12

This guy above me doesnt know what hes talking about. They are usually rubber blue balls the size of a golfball and you go into a room to play. I dont know how big the room is though sorry. Its pretty big though. its a square and you have to hit it off the walls. The rules are hard to explain unless I could show you. I am #1 in Oregon and #5 in the country and #13 in the world at handball so I know what Im talking about. The guy above you is a joke.

Answer 13

handball

Answer 14

Lol l thought handball was the ghetto sport of a small ball thats only $1 and you hit it against a wall

Answer 15

Um Jules, your not explaining it. Easton B is explaining it perfectly well. Handball- a rubber blue ball used. Normally played against one of two players. You use the palm of your hand and hit the ball on the wall then the other player hits it and you countine. It's a great game. Used to play it way  back in New York. Everyone else that's telling you it's a european game.. naw it ain't. Unless, there's two definition in handball. But, that's the only definition I know of handball. Where you from? US? Cus only New York players would know bout handball. What everyone else is saying, they're probably from UK or not even US or deserted areas. So, there you go ;)

Answer 16

not sure were it originated from but it's a good game. but you hit the ball after your opponent hits it (maximum bounce is one) there are lots of different styles of handball. have fun.

Answer 17

Handball (also known as team handball, field handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.

The game has a goal similar to but smaller than the one in football (soccer), though as the name implies, the basic method of handling the ball involves the players' hands rather than their feet. The game has been played internationally since the 1920s.

History

Team handball has origins reaching as far as antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in medieval Germany, etc. There are also records of handball-like games in medieval France, and among the Inuit in Greenland, in the Middle Ages, and in Ancient Africa, primarily Egypt. By the 19th century, there existed similar games of haandbold from Denmark, hazena in Bohemia and Slovakia, gandbol in Ukraine, torball in Germany, as well as versions in Ireland and Uruguay.

The team handball game as we know it today was formed by the end of the 19th century in northern Europe, primarily Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The Dane Holger Nielsen drew up the rules for modern handball (håndbold) in 1898 (and published them in 1906), and R.N. Ernst did something similar in 1897.

Another set of team handball rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz and Erich Konigh from Germany. After 1919 these rules were further improved by Karl Schelenz. The first international games were played under these rules, between Germany and Belgium for men in 1925 and between Germany and Austria for women in 1930.

In 1926, the Congress of the International Amateur Athletics Federation nominated a committee to draw up international rules for field handball. The International Amateur Handball Federation was formed in 1928. The International Handball Federation was formed later in 1946

Men's field handball was played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin at the special request of Adolf Hitler. It was removed from the list of sports, to return as team handball in 1972 for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Women's team handball was added as an Olympic discipline at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

The International Handball Federation organized the Men's World Championships in 1938 and every four (or sometimes three years) from World War II to 1995. Since the 1995 World Championship in Iceland, the competition has been held every two years. The Women's World Championships have been played since 1957. The IHF also organizes Women's and Men's Junior World Championships.

As of February 2007, the IHF lists 159 member federations which represent approximately 1,130,000 teams and a total of 31 million players, trainers, officials and referees.

Playing Field

Handball is played on a court forty meters long by twenty meters wide (40mx20m), with a dividing line in the middle and a goal in the center of either end. The goals are surrounded by a near-semicircular line that is generally six meters (6m) away from the goal. There is also a dashed near-semicircular line that is nine meters (9m) away from the goal. In established play (which is most of the time, although counterattacking is becoming increasingly important), the defenders stand right outside the 6m line, with the attacking players throwing the ball to each other a bit outside the 9m line, trying to create an attack (either by shooting from a distance, or passing to a player standing at the 6m line).

After a goal has been scored, the team conceding the goal restarts the game. Their players move to the center line. Once a player has the ball under control the referee will blow his whistle to restart play. All players of the team which are restarting the play, must be behind the line on their own half, or else the restarting throw will have to be retaken.

Only the defending goalkeeper is allowed to step inside the six meter (6m) perimeter, though any player may attempt to catch and touch the ball in the air within it. If a player should find himself in contact inside the goal perimeter he must immediately take the most direct path out of it. Should a defender make contact with an attacker while in the goal perimeter, their team is penalized with a direct attempt at the goal, with only one attacker on the seven-meter line and the defending goalkeeper involved.

The ball is smaller than a football in order for the players to be able to hold and handle it with a single hand (though contact with both hands is perfectly allowed). Some American versions use a volleyball. It is transported by bouncing it between hands and floor — much as in basketball. A player may only hold the ball for three seconds and may only take three steps with the ball in hand. After taking three steps the player will have to make a dribble with one hand in order to continue moving forward, but if the ball is held in both hands after making a dribble and the player makes another dribble, a free throw will be given to the other team for a "double dribble". There are many unofficial rule variations; a common American version allows only a single step with the ball, after which the player must pass the ball to another teammate or shoot.

Ball movement and possession is similar to basketball. If the attacker commits an infraction, such as charging, the possession of the ball can be awarded to the defending team. Players may also cause the possession to be lost if they make more than three steps without dribbling or after stopping their dribble. However unlike basketball, the player may take three steps instead of two (pivoting on one foot is considered a step) and the ball must be "patted" down instead of the more controlled basketball method.

Game play

A standard match duration consists of two periods of 30 minutes each during which each team may call one time-out. Normal league games are usually allowed to end in a draw, but in knockout tournaments, such as the of the Olympics, two extension periods of 5 minutes are played, and if they also end in a draw another two times 5 minutes has to be played. If each of these ends in a tie after the extra time the winner is determined by an individual shootout from the 7-meter line, where each team is given five shots. The rules of the shootout are similar to soccer shootouts, where, if a winner is not found within the first ten shots, the players return to the shooting, until one team has missed and the other scored. In two Olympic Finals of women's handball penalty shootout had to be used - both of them with Denmark participating (against Hungary in 1996 and South Korea in 2004); and both of them with Denmark as the winner.

The game is quite fast and includes body contact as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal. Only frontal contact by the defenders is allowed; when a defender stops an attacker with his or her arms instead of his or her torso, the play is stopped and restarted from the spot of the infraction or on the nine meter line, with the attacking team in possession.

The usual formations of the defense are the so-called 6-0, when all the defense players are within the 6 meter and 9 meter lines; the 5-1, when one of the players cruises outside the 9 meter perimeter, usually targeting the center forwards; and the least common 4-2 when there are two such defenders. The usual attacking formation includes two wingmen, a center-left and a center-right which usually excel at high jumps and shooting over the defenders, and two centers, one of which tends to intermingle with the defense (also known as the pivot or try line player, somewhat similar to the hole set (2-meter) in water polo), disrupting the defense formation, and the other being the playmaker (similar to basketball and tennis). Also the players may use the "box plus one" defense in which the players line up in a box form and the extra player will attack the other team's player who has the ball while the others guard the goal area and try to intercept passes. The formations vary greatly from country to country. The most common formation for the central European teams as well as the Scandinavian teams is 6-0. This formation can be altered to 5-1 by placing a player--usually the far wing--in the middle in front of the 9-meter perimeter to disturb the play of the other team. The Ukrainian team "HC Motor Zaporyshe" plays a 3-3 formations with man marking all over their defensive area. This formation is used by teams outside Eastern Europe only when behind with a few goals with a few minutes left, in the attempt to steal the ball faster.

Goals are much more common in handball than in most other sports; usually, both teams score at least 40 goals, and it is not uncommon to have a match end (say) 33-31. This was not true in the earliest days, when the scores were more akin to that of ice hockey, but as offensive play (in particular in terms of counterattacks after a failed attack from the other team) has improved, more and more goals have been scored after each match.

Penalties

Penalties are given to players, in progressive format, if the contact between the players is particularly rough (even if it is indeed frontal) the referees may award a nine-meter free throw to the attacking team, or if the infraction was during a clear scoring opportunity, a seven-meter penalty shot is given. In more extreme cases they give the defender a yellow card (warning), a 2-minute penalty, or a red card (permanent expulsion). For rough fouls they can also order two-minute expulsions and a red card expulsion without having to warn the player, if a player insults the referee - either by touching him with the intention to push or with verbal abuse, or if a player kicks or hits an opponent deliberately, the referee can expel the player form

Answer 18

you dont know man your dumb

g*y kid huh