Lets Play Korfball

Korfball Coaching Principles

Korfball New Zealand recommends the following principles to help make teaching units more effective and enjoyable.

Play goes before training
Learning the skills and strategy only make sense when you can apply them to a game situation. Playing and competing make any training exercise more fun.
Attack goes before defence
Learning how to attack is more complex but also more rewarding than learning how to defend, which is fundamentally a reaction to the attack. Students can soon learn how to defend once they can attack.
Shooting goes before teamwork.
All players want to score. Korfball is all about putting the ball through the korf.
Teamwork goes before opposing.
Korfball is a game of interaction, participation and co-operation. Improved teamwork is initially best achieved without opposition, but will improve quickly once opponents are introduced.