Talk:Team handball/Archive 1
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Sorry about the poor quality of this entry, but trust me, its better than what was here before ;-) --Anders Törlind
more than one type of handball
I suspect that there is more than one type of handball. For instance, there was a game played by French monks colled "jeu de paume" (supposed to translate "game of the palm (of the hand)", my French is rusty) that was played in a similar fasion to racketball and is believed to be a predecessor of modern tennis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.179.xxx (talk • contribs) 20:30, 8 September 2001
- Ah, the text i wrote only pertains to the olympic sport. Please add entries for other sports called handball, if you have any info! --Anders Törlind (03:42, 4 February 2002)
That's right, there's more than one type of handball. The Olympic sport is usually referred to as 'Team handball', while there's another sport which involves single players. I believe the sport is somewhat similar to many racket games -- Jheijmans —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeronimo (talk • contribs) 17:43, 25 February 2002
I second that. I know of two other forms of handball which are not variations of the olympic sport. One similar to Squash except without the racquet. The other is played in school yards throughout Australia on grid of either 2 or 4 squares painted on concrete or bitumen. Sort of like a scaled down version of tennis with no racquets. You use a tennis ball and the ball must bounce in your square once on it's return to your oponent's square. Each of the four squares represent a ranking of King, Queen, Jack and Dunce. When someone is beaten, s/he is sent to dunce and all player s/he outranked move up a rank. The goal is to stay in King. If more than 4 players are present, only a 'King' is sent to dunce. Any other players would be sent off the court and a reserve player will start in dunce.
I can provide detailed info on the latter but not the former. However, I have no idea of the origins of the game. Only the rules.
A quick google reveals there are 2 types of the squash-like game. 1 wall and 4 wall handball!
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.254.168.102 (talk • contribs) 11:45, 1 June 2005
- Please feel free to contribute to the articles linked from handball (disambiguation). --Joy [shallot]
single center player
I see no reason not to compare the single center player in the handball attacking formation to the single center player in the water polo attacking formation. Both players tend to be isolated among the defenders, try to disrupt the defence, and provide an opportunity to be passed the ball and score more easily from the place closest to the goal. --Shallot 15:20, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Some confusion may have risen from my use of the term anchor for that water polo position. The Wikipedia article on water polo calls it the hole set, which seems to be the more popular English term. --Shallot
Team handball a Danish game
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in Danish.
Håndbold er en sportsgren som blev opfundet af den danske gymnastik- og livredningspioner Holger Nielsen. Han indførte spillet på Ordrup Gymnasium i 1898 og udgav den første instruktionsbog i spillet i 1906.
In short: Team Handball was invented by the Danish gymnastics and lifeguard- pioneer Holger Nielsen in 1898. He published a manual in 1906.
- I've correlated this with other sources and wrote something about it in the article, it should be better now. --Joy [shallot] 00:29, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
