Mission and Vision Korfball Coach Course

 

Mission for a High Level Korfball Coaching Course

The mission of the course is to equip high level sports coaches with the knowledge, skills and professional mindset needed to optimally guide players and teams to peak performance.                    This is achieved through a scientifically based, practice-oriented and innovative curriculum that responds to the latest developments in sports science, training methodology and leadership skills. The course encourages a culture of continuous personal and professional development, with ethics, sustainability and player well-being at its core. The aim is to transform coaches not only into technical experts, but also into inspiring leaders who help players reach their full potential, both inside and outside of sport.

 

Mission for a High Level Sports Coaching Course with a focus on national teams:

The mission of this course is to equip national team sports coaches with the expertise, strategic insights and leadership qualities needed to guide players and teams to success at the highest international level. Combining evidence-based knowledge, practice-oriented training and innovative methods, the course prepares coaches to manage the unique challenges of national teams.

Vision

Korfball Theory An Action Theoretical Vision on the game of Korfball

The Theory of Korfball is based on the relational view of human nature.

= What is Korfball?

= Context of Korfball

Game Purpose	Game Resources	Playing Rules	Playing attitude
Two teams play against each other to win by scoring more goals that the opponent	Ball Korf; Korven Zone(s)		Game; Play

 

 

How do we analyse korfball?

Relational View of Human Nature is leading by in the analysis of the Korfball. Korfball is the ultimate communication sport. Within the context there is displacement focussed on the game purpose. According to the relational view, the moving player can only be understood in relation  to the environment, korfball context. We name the actions of the players move-actions. The thing of the body, the substantial aspect is not denied but understood within the meaning relationship.

During trainings a specific application of the knowledge of  substantial sciences like Biomechanic;  Anatomy; Sport Physiology; Psychology a.s.o is used.

How do we analyse korfball?

Relational View of Human Nature is leading by in the analysis of the Korfball. Korfball is the ultimate communication sport. Within the context there is displacement focussed on the game purpose. According to the relational view, the moving player can only be understood in relation  to the environment, korfball context. We name the actions of the players move-actions. The thing of the body, the substantial aspect is not denied but understood within the meaning relationship.

During trainings a specific application of the knowledge of  substantial sciences like Biomechanic;  Anatomy; Sport Physiology; Psychology a.s.o is used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Korfball action are move - actions

 

 

Communication in korfball = Game insight of the level at which the game is played (level of the teams)
TEAM IN Ball POSSESSION			TEAM NOT IN BALL POSSESSION
Team functions	Attacking	<<Transitie>>	Team Functions	Defendong
Team Tasks	·        Building up Attacks ·        Creating scoring opportunities ·        Scoring		Team Tasks	·        Preventing scoring opportunites ·        Neutralising scoring opportunities
Interaction	·        Playing patterns ·        Structures of  communication ·        Role assigning ·        Role rotating		Interaction	·        Defending front and back ·        Preventing free positions of attacker ·        Hindering shooting and assisting ·        Intercepting
Execution of Actions	·        Space and Time relations ·        Space: Position & Direction ·        Timing & Tempo		Execution of Actions	Space, Position & Direction Timing & Tempo

November 2024

Article by Jan Tamboer Elsevier, 2004 edited by Ben Crum

 

An action-theoretical perspective on the game of korfball

As coaches, how do we look at korfball?

An adaption of Jan Tamboer’s text, by Ben Crum

 

In order to provide targeted and planned korfball training, it is necessary for coaches to be able to formulate the shortcomings of players and the practice material to be offered in action language. Ideally, this should be based on an analysis of the previous game (or of more games).

Example: The one-on-one defence allowed long shots; attackers were given too much space outside because front-defence was missing and the outside defence was not connected.

We use the action theory view to analyse matches or game situations. We do this in action language.

By always analysing korfball in action language, there is a natural relationship between the matches and the training sessions, and it is also possible to concretely indicate what should be done during those training sessions. This is in clear contrast to analyses that rely on general abilities or qualities from which no direct action guidelines can be derived. Indeed, trainers and coaches sometimes tend to blame insufficient or poor performance or defeat on poor fitness, lack of self-confidence, lack of concentration, fear of failure or poor chemistry. There is usually little to be said on such explanations. They are comprehensive and revealing and therein lies at the same time their problem. They say a lot and at the same time say very little. It always comes down to how such generalities (container concepts) - non-committal dead words - can be converted into korfball language, so that concrete guidelines for actual action can be derived from them. That quality of a trainer or coach is measured by the extent to which he or she is able to describe and analyse the shortcomings of korfball players in the language of korfball actions. A lack of self-confidence or a lack of concentration is in itself meaningless, as long as it cannot be put into words in korfball language. And quite apart from the question of whether concentration exercises or exercises for self-confidence as such have a right to exist and are meaningful, one should at least not confuse such exercises with practising korfball acts.

 

About the goal of playing korfball in accordance with the rules, certain actions have to be performed. The hard core of these korfball acts is formed by move actions, However, playing korfball is not exclusively a matter of movement.  Other types of action also play a role.

 

Move actions are korfball acts only when their three characteristics are considered in relation to the game's intention and the rules of the game of korfball. In general, move actions in the game of korfball always involve ways of moving around the ball, the playing field, fellow players and opponents. These ways of handling can be specified in terms of space - time relationships and are ultimately aimed at moving the ball into the korf in accordance with the rules (the aim of the game). When describing the korfball acts, it is actually always about elaborations and specialisations of these general characteristics. How can these korfball acts be mapped logically and systematically?

 

Korfball is a team sport and only as a team can one realise the goal of the game. Starting point of reasoning is therefore the actions to be performed at team level. This is initially determined by whether or not a team is in possession of the ball. As both teams cannot be in possession of the ball at the same time, the game of korfball has a dual structure, which places all korfball actions in two overarching - and opposing - categories (attacking and defending). Ball possession in the game of korfball, moreover, can constantly change, requiring switching from attacking to defending (or vice versa). At team level as so-called team functions, attacking, defending and switching are logical designations of korfball actions, based on whether or not a team is in possession of the ball.

 

Korbal formats 1

Attacking is an umbrella term for a series of move actions that can only be performed when in possession of the ball and are aimed at, according to the rules, moving the ball to the basket. Within these team functions, two sub-functions - or team tasks - can be distinguished, namely building up and scoring. Building up involves all those offensive actions aimed at creating chances (in order to subsequently score). In practice, this usually involves a combination of so-called patterns, team organisation(4-0; 3-1;2-2). To contribute to this team task, individual players must perform certain movement acts, such as passing, free running, catching, passing, passing, catching. Creating chances (via building up) is not an end in itself. It is in the service of scoring goals. Goals can be scored with various movement acts: distance shot, running-in shots, V- shots. As specific korfball acts, their intentionality is linked in the most direct way to the game's objective - scoring more goals than the opponent. Building up and scoring are thus two inseparable team tasks, each of which in turn consists of different movement acts. The general characteristics of korfball actions always apply here, but take shape in a specific way in building up and scoring

 

Move actions are characterised by: Intentionality is moving-oriented, within the context of the game, the environment: players play together with the ball and run free in relation to the basket in order to score, the ways of moving are described in time-spatial terms, such as position, direction, pace, timing). Moving should be seen as a relational term relative to the environment, as opposed to movement of body parts.

 

Defending is the logical counterpart of attacking. The term refers to movement acts, which must be performed when the other team is in possession of the ball. Within this team function, a distinction can be made between the team tasks of disrupting build-up and preventing scoring. Interrupting the build-up involves all those defensive actions aimed at preventing the opponent's desired build-up. To contribute to these movement acts, individual players must perform certain movement acts such as when defending 1-on-1, following the attacker, chasing, forward-defending, back-defending, etc. If interference does not lead to the desired result, it will have to give way to preventing a goal from being scored. Individual players can contribute to this by performing movement acts such as not allowing free chances, making shooting impossible, blocking the ball in the event of a shot.

As with building up and scoring, disrupting building up and preventing scoring involve korfball acts in which the aforementioned general characteristics are recognisable in specific ways.

Ball possession can turn into ball loss during korfball. ( In top games about 70 times.) This can be the result of good defending , allowing the ball to be captured. Losing the ball also happens through a foul by the ball-possessing side. After a goal, there is also a switch from ball possession to not in possession.

 

Only from a certain team function or team task do korfball acts (actions) of individual players become meaningful. At this individual level, a distinction can be made between move actions with and without ball contact. The term technique (bypassing the word technique by the word skill of the player) refers to the former category and says something about the level at which an individual player is able to perform them. In other words, the extent to which such a player shows that he has recognised the ability to ..... the ball. Viewed from the logical structure of the korfball game, it is important not to isolate and isolate technique, but only to see it in relation to a certain team function or team task. Moreover, korfball technique is always a matter of level difference and thus not all or nothing.

 

The intentionality of korfball acts is primarily movement-oriented (namely, from the ball to the korf). Korfball actions are therefore move actions. However, they are never exclusively so. As acting beings, korfball players always interact with their environment in ways other than exclusively moving. These other types of actions help to realise the goal of the game while moving and play a supporting role.

In summary, they can be referred to as game communication and insight.

 

 

 

Communication (in the context of the game of korfball) can be characterised as game insight at the team level. Communication in korfball is a fundamental characteristic, ensuring coordination and alignment within the team. Korfball players must play together according to the rules of the game to achieve the goal of the game. Playing together involves all those communicative actions aimed at coordinating and aligning movement actions of individual korfball players. Players will have to sense, understand and coach each other, always also in the light of a particular team function or team task. Communicative elements will, on the one hand, be contained in the way of performing move actions themselves; on the other hand, communication can take the form of certain language acts, verbal and move actions, non-verbal. ( Read: The IKF Guide to Korfball Coaching 2012 The 5 Cs and The art of Korfball Coaching 2021 Chapter 3, Communication-Deciding-Execution)

 

Like technique, the term game insight says something about the actions of individual korfball players. And this acting thus acquires meaning only in the light of certain team function or team task. Individual korfball players must not only be able to throw and catch, shoot and rebound or defend and block man-to-man, but also “read” korfball situations as such - in the sense of perceiving, recognising and interpreting, anticipating - that such movement acts are performed at the right time and place. Game insight can then be described as the extent to which an individual player is able to perceive opportunities to perform movement acts related to a given team task or team function, both his own and those of fellow players and opponents. This concerns in particular (but not exclusively) movement acts without ball contact. It mainly involves perceiving (including anticipating, estimating and assessing space-time relationships.

 

 

The logical structure of the game of korfball is independent of the level at which the game is played. However, as the level increases, this mainly has consequences for the way the various movement acts are performed. Korfball players are thereby explicitly confronted with their conditionals in the sense of upper limits.

What are those conditionals? What is characteristic of korfball condition? This cannot be deduced from physiological textbooks. What is persistence during the match? That language is not an action language. Only by taking the starting point in the logical structure of the game of korfball, and thus in the language of korfball actions, can it become clear which conditionals are called upon when the level of play goes up. The latter manifests itself especially in time-space relations. This is because the higher the level of play, the more precisely space has to be played and the more decisive the timing in interplay can be. Players will therefore have to perform movement acts (with and without ball contact) quantitatively (more often) and qualitatively (longer and better) and be able to maintain this throughout an entire match. Concepts such as recovery ability, recovery capacity, explosive power and explosive capacity, as well as concentration ability, resilience, motivation can then link to the fields of physiology and psychology. They refer to conditionals, which are particularly appealed to in the game of korfball.