Korea Handball Association, 2024 ‘Mobile Handball Class’ to be Held… Handball Promotion Begins
Korea Handball Association announced on the 25th that it is conducting a ‘visiting handball class’ for elementary schools nationwide for two months from September to October to popularize the school-style spoke ‘handball’.
The ‘visiting handball class’ will be conducted by handball expert instructors who directly visit schools and conduct handball demonstration classes for about 5,000 students at 50 elementary schools nationwide selected as handball popularization schools in 2024.
The purpose of this is to provide guidance methods so that teachers at handball popularization schools who are new to handball can conduct handball classes successfully during physical education classes in the future. 바카라사이트
In addition, the 50 schools selected as handball popularization schools this year will be provided with handball supplies and instructor training free of charge, making efforts to ensure that handball classes can be actively held at each school.
The handball popularization project, which the Korea Handball Association started in 2021, has been consistently providing job training and teacher training to elementary school teachers and professional sports instructors for the past two years, and has achieved an explosive response in actual physical education classes due to its easy game rules, safe physical activities, and easy participation by female students.
In particular, the participation rate of female teachers in the teacher job training was high, and by the end of 2023, handball had been distributed to about 136 elementary schools nationwide, including Daegok Elementary School in Seoul, Gokran Elementary School in Gyeonggi, Jiphyeon Elementary School in Sejong, and Jinju Elementary School in Gangwon.
Handball , the only ball game to have qualified for the Olympics at the 2024 Paris Olympics, is known to be a sport that is particularly helpful for the even physical growth of children because it involves a combination of multiple movements and uses all parts of the body to handle the ball.
Handball is a school sport developed in 2021 by modifying existing handball to make it suitable for school physical activities, as the Korea Handball Association participated in the Korea Sports Council’s ‘Youth Sports Infrastructure Development Project’ to expand the base of handball.
The biggest feature of handball is that boys and girls can participate together during physical education class regardless of their individual athletic ability.
The body of the ball was developed to be soft enough to bounce without slipping out of the hand and without hurting when hit, and the goalkeeper, a position with a high risk of injury, was eliminated, and the game was transformed into a format where the ball is scored by putting it in the five holes in the goal from the scoring line.
It also prevents physical contact, reducing the risk of injury while allowing mixed-gender games, and assigns roles such as scorer and ball stepper to students outside the court, so that everyone can cooperate and participate in the game.
Meanwhile, the Korea Handball Association has been holding an annual handball festival for schools that offer handball classes since 2023, and this year’s handball festival is scheduled to be held at the Olympic Park Handball Stadium in Songpa-gu on January 11, 2025.