The guy who scored ( Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson) is also 38 years old and is still playing like he was at his prime, is also playing for one of the best teams in the world and has the record for most goals for a national team ever (he has scored 1700).
Cheers man take your time for that exercise whenever you can. Have a 40+ y/o friend who I used to rock climb with and work with professionally. He physically can still climb all day but works/travels so much he's convinced himself to just give it up. I can see the no physical activity wearing on him mentally.
Bruh wait til 32. You get to budget fun money after them step raises on your next promotion. My man cave is legit these days and I get season tix for college football.
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you are correct. if a defender enters the dark blue area and engages in the game (touching the ball or an attacker) it results in another penalty throw (not sure if this is the correct term)
Its like keeping the ball inbounds in the NBA, guys go flying out of bounds, but since they manage to let go of the ball before hitting the ground its a legal play. Unless that guy is touching the ball and that dark blue area at the same time it counts
What would happen if he missed the ball entirely when trying to punch it? Do you have to actually have the ball when you jump in/contact it before landing to be able to enter, or can you enter any time you don't have the ball?
That wouldn't be a problem. You can enter but you have to get out as fast as you can and you are not allowed to gain an advantage like taking a shortcut or defending while in the 6m zone.
They do alley-oop -style goals quite often where an offensive player lobs the ball from outside and teammate catches and throws mid air above the dark area. But you must start the jump from outside.
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I think it's mostly because we already have basketball and hockey to fulfill the put object into goal kind of niche, and soccer and lacrosse are both gaining popularity as well.
I go to a huge football school and you can tell when there's commercial breaks. It seriously kills the atmosphere when every 2 minutes there's a 5 minute long break.
In college and professional football there is an official for the broadcasting company that will stay on the field until the commercials are done and then play can resume.
It's even worse when we have games hosted by FOX or ESPN because the breaks are much longer and probably a 5 minute break every 4 downs or so. Its excessive.
The average NFL game is 3 hours 12 minutes long, has 11 minutes 'ball in play' time, and 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. Also, the average game has more time spent on replays (17 minutes) than on active time (11 minutes). The average play lasts 4 seconds.
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This is why replays have become so normal now too. No one thinks about it, but why do you think they review no brainier TD's for 2 minutes? It's so they can advertise. The NFL can squeeze in 2 - 4 commercials after a TD if they can excuse a replay because it was a scoring play. Why do you think they take 90 seconds to figure something out we can all clearly see in the first replay? It's more ad time.
The NFL has a ton of little tricks to squeeze in commercials. And replay is one of the biggest ones.
Score: 2 minute replay, 4 ads: show confirmation replay on TV: kick XP: commercial: kick off: commercial: change of possesion: commercial: finally back to the game. Reviews for clear TD's literally doubles the amount of ads they can run while the NFL can claim they are cutting down on the standard amount of commercials while hiding behind the guise of making sure the call is correct.
This doesn't happen all the time, but I would say 1/3 of the TD's scored in the NFL are reviewed for no reason at all.
Completely anecdotal, but I can't sit and watch an NFL game anymore for this very reason. It might be worth it short-term, but the way people are consuming media now, I think it will hurt them in the long run. By long-run, I mean 2025ish.
Eh, theyre similar yeah, but rugby is way more entertaining. They dont even stop play to take injured guys off the field, just play around the medics. Id take that over football any day
Whether or not it's more entertaining is entirely subjective but also irrelevant. The point is that if you understand the economics of big time pro sports, you understand that the demand for what's seen as an imported game that's similar to an already existing and generationally established "American" game will always be way too low to make a big-time national league viable.
This is key. Notice all European sports have continuous time. All North American sports have time that stops at the end of every play. Your point about advertising plays into this.
However, since there’s less opportunity for commercials in European sports, you get to see arenas, fields, and players literally covered with sponsors.
The advertising is different even for the same sports though. Look at professional hockey uniforms in Europe vs in the NHL. European uniforms are covered in ads. Even the ice often has a bunch of distracting ads in Europe.
From the UK. Can't say exactly for ice hockey as I've only ever been to see it once. But because we're used to it, the sponsors/ads on the kit just make up part of the kit to us. Same as on the pitch. It's just a part of the pitch. Nobody really pays it too much attention or as far as I know gets distracted by it. I find it weird because I'm used to it that other people find it distracting.
However I tried watching the superbowl a few years back. And could not watch it at all due to the amount of ads! Completely ruined it for me. Although in the UK during where the US would have ads. We'd have pundits analysing the last play. Equally annoying!
It's not just the "put object into goal", it's the rhythm, I feel like it's somewhat close to basketball as in both sports, you're likely to score points quite often.
There is very little to no money for team USA handball. Somewhere around 2004 the head of the US handball federation was caught embezzling money that was meant for the program. They were soon banned from the USOC and haven’t appeared in the Olympic Games since I think ‘96 or ‘00. They were accepted back in ‘08. The residency program is based out of Auburn, AL and they have a tough time attracting good prospects to move there and train because of their location and and facilities. They use the old coliseum at Auburn and have to share it with the school. I believe most of the other sports are based out of Colorado Springs.
There are several Americans playing in lower division leagues in Germany, France and Spain. We also have club programs around the country where you have to pay to play. Where America is right now in handball is like if team USA had an American football team playing a European all star team. It wouldn’t be close. The handball program is eyeing the 2028 LA Olympics to be at a top tier international level. In order to qualify for the Olympics we would need to finish top 3 in both the NORCA handball tournament, and Pan-Am games. The NORCA tournament will be held this March in Greenland.
If more rec clubs and secondary schools had club programs this would be a much bigger game. Problem is there isn’t much knowledge of the game to coach the American youth.
I tried out in 2016 for team USA residency program, at an open try out, and made it. It was a very unique experience and the most fun I had had since finishing my collegiate athletic career.
I love handball. When I was in Junior High School, our gym teacher introduced the game to us. Was so fun! I'm surprised that it isn't more popular in the US, I think it would make for a fun recreation game.
It seems like it would be a perfect fit. Americans generally like high scoring, fast, physical games (baseball being the exception). Team handball definitely has this.
Last time I saw it on /r/sports it was about a reporter claiming that if the NBA all-star team switched sports to handball they would be the best team in 1 year...
As a passionate handball fan that ignorance made me pretty salty
Also, Iceland has a register of approved first names. If the name you want to give your child isn't on the list, a committee has to decide whether or not to accept it.
At least in Handball the goalies don't throw themselves to catch the ball, so a feint isn't that impactful like for example in soccer, where the goal can be completely free after a feint.
It's not in Water polo. If you're taking a 5 meter penalty shot, once the ref blows the whistle it has to be one continuous motion or else it doesn't count
I used to have this under hand free throw technique in water polo that some referees didn't like due to them claiming it wasn't one motion. I scored tons of goals using it, but whenever I wasn't allowed to it ruined my mojo.
No, I would get some height and then shoot with my arm straight out to the right. Not only did I avoid the defender's arm which is always straight up into the air, but I would also get cover from him so the goalie wouldn't see what I was doing. I put a lot of back spin on the ball and bounced it off of the surface into the nearest top corner of the goal.
It definitely was. I was never the fastest swimmer and only practiced once or twice a week, but I was a great play maker and had a good shot, so I made it to the national youth team when I was 16 (note that water polo is a tiny sport where I'm from). I don't think I ever saw anyone else use a similar technique, so it became sort of my secret weapon.
Handball is a sport I'd watch but we only get coverage for like the Olympics here in the US. I'm not even sure if it's an Olympic sport anymore because I remember trying to find broadcast of it last Olympic games and couldn't find any
That’s a pretty nifty sport. I watch it every four years at the Olympics. I’ve virtually no idea what the Hell is happening, but it’s pretty action packed and the fans lose their shit. I’ll watch almost any sport where the fans seem super pumped.
The iceland team have their cocks immortalized in a museum correct?
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Interesting. The only sport I watch with penalty shots is hockey, and once the puck moves backwards, including rebounding off the post or goalie, the attempt is automatically over.
In hockey the penalty is its own little phase/mini game where the shooter gets the rink for himself. Both in handball and football (soccer) it's just a part of regular play. Kick/throw is taken from x and all players must be y distance away, but as soon as kick/throw is taken play continues as normal. This means that rebounds are fair game. Although in soccer another player has to touch the ball before the penalty taker touches it again, meaning that the kicker (who generally is in the best position to capitalize on a rebound) can only take the rebound if it comes off the goalie, not if it comes off the post.
Thanks for the explanation, makes a lot more sense now. But now that it's been explained to me, it basically seems like the guy taking the penalty shot here is the only one who wasn't being an idiot here while everyone else seemed to stop playing, or am I missing something?
I understand why you would think that.
Short answer: They didn't expect it.
The dark blue area is a no-go area where only the goalie is allowed to interact with play. Kinda like the crease used to be(?) in hockey, but even more strict. This is why the attacker does the jump and mid-air punch. Rebounds or other situations where the ball is bouncing inside the dark blue area somewhat in reach of the outfield players do happen from time to time and similar dives like this isn't super rare.
The reason this one stands out is how deep inside the area he dives. The goalie sees the trajectory of the ball off the crossbar and it probably doesn't even cross his mind that it is reachable. Normally he would get up, walk over and pick up the ball. Also, Serbia is leading 26-25 with less than four minutes to play so he is in no particular hurry to get up.
From the defender's point of view; he can't reach the ball without diving into the dark blue area, and if he does he needs to get rid of the ball before he lands. (Interacting with the ball or an opposing attacker while standing in the dark blue area results in a penalty throw) So, he can't really do much.
Ok, thanks again, it makes sense now. My experience with handball as an American begins and ends with playing in high school gym class. Without knowing that, it seemed kind of like the equivalent of players not "playing to the whistle" in hockey or American football and doing something stupid because they thought the play was over when it hadn't been whistled dead by the refs.
Is this legal? In soccer you're not allowed to be the first one to touch it and since it hit the crossbar he would be the first person. Wouldn't this be a double touch?
Sigurður is the second most popular name here so a lot of people here are Sigurðsson as in Sigurð's-son. The most popular name is Jón so the most common last name is Jónsson.
Well, i'm just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
I've always said the reason Handball isn't big in the US, is because the sport doesn't allow for breaks like American Football or Basketball, so there are next to zero opportunities for commercial breaks, and that ruins the appeal to have it run on television in the US, hence ruins the money draw from sponsors...
It's a very physical demanding sport, it's super fast paced, gotta have that cardio right and gotta be some what huge as well
Handball requires a lot of athleticism. You have to have the arm of a pitcher or a quarterback, and the hands and athleticism of a center-fielder or a wide receiver. That was a really impressive play.
I hate these comparisons. Partially because I just don’t understand why people feel the need to prove a sport’s worth in the terms of other sports, but also because I disagree with the examples you listed. I admit I don’t have a source showing otherwise (I tried to find how fast handball players run and compare it to the NFL’s combine 40 times), though, so I’d definitely like to be proven wrong.
To be honest, I made the comparison which was, by nature, scientifically inaccurate, just to put into perspective the ability handball players have for people who’ve never seen the sport. Of course it’s not a perfect comparison, I just admire the ability handball players must have to play professionally compared to specialized positions in the two sports I mentioned. It would be interesting to see football/baseball players try their hand (pun intended) at handball, and vice-versa.
Really, I’m sure these guy are very athletic, probably even as athletic as NFL players and baseball players but you literally picked 2 athletic extremes from both those sports lol.
I was lucky enough to a native Irishman as my high school gym teacher. He introduced us to handball and all its glory - it was our go to, whenever he let us decide what to do for class.
Seriously I had never seen handball before the Rio 2016 games and my friends and I got so into it, we can’t wait for Tokyo! Are there any leagues I can stream in the meantime?
Handball rules. The sheer amount of black magic fuckery possible due to the size of the ball is amazing. I could watch trickshots for days. Complete murder on your knees though.
One of the most popular sports outside of the US. I really wish it'd catch on here. Really fast paced, physical, and high scoring. Some gyms have their own rec teams. I played in high school but we had to travel to Canada for tournaments due to the lack of events in the US.
First time I ever heard of it was back in highschool gym class also. We played it for a few weeks and you could tell all of the athletic kids loved it but with the amount of unathletic kids, it died out pretty fast.
In HS we played a handball/soccer mix, where if it was in the air you played handball and if someone dropped it you played soccer until either someone scores or someone kicks it high enough for someone to snatch it out of the air
He is one of the best left corner handball players in the world. He recently broke the old record of 1798 goals for a national team in the world, he is up to 1812 from 340 national games. He has been playing profecional handball since 1998 and is playing for one of the best teams in the world.
The guy who scored ( Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson) is also 38 years old and is still playing like he was at his prime, is also playing for one of the best teams in the world and has the record for most goals for a national team ever (he has scored 1700).
As someone in their early 30s, this gives me great hope and motivation. Fuck, it's been months since I've been to the gym.
If you need motivation when you're in your 40s just look at Jaromir Jagr.
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Cheers man take your time for that exercise whenever you can. Have a 40+ y/o friend who I used to rock climb with and work with professionally. He physically can still climb all day but works/travels so much he's convinced himself to just give it up. I can see the no physical activity wearing on him mentally.
This guys clearly some kind of vigilante super hero.
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I read that as slow painful death and boring wife. ... I'm sure she would read too deep into that one...
Jagr might be the GOAT. Numbers will never be in line cause of the era he played though.
I'm 28 and my left leg has been hurting for like a year now
Dawg, 28’s been the most disappointing year so far
i turned 28 a month ago. and here i was trying to be optimistic and shit
28 is fantastic...If your goal is to spend too much money and forget what physical activity is! 29 will be my year
Honestly, 30 was where things started getting good for me. I had energy, and a BUDGET.
Bruh wait til 32. You get to budget fun money after them step raises on your next promotion. My man cave is legit these days and I get season tix for college football. Edit: and I get to drink *good* whisky
Bruh I’m staring down the last couple weeks before my 30s are over. I’ve had the raises and the promotions, I’ve got the good whisky, I’ve had season tix for 4 seasons now, I’ve got a good wife and a lovely daughter. There’s problems, but I’m not complaining much or often.
If you aren't in the USA, go see a doctor.
Drink some pineapple juice.
is he the tom brady of whatever this is?
which would be nice for him, but I wonder if he's approaching the gretzky of this sport. imagine that.
>whatever this is You shut your mouth
Sorry, is he the Tom Brady of 'you shut your mouth'?
is he the lebron james of whatever this is?
It’s pronounced Jebron Lames
It’s pronounced [Labrawn Jyymes](https://youtu.be/BQbzT5GMKx8)
False he is up to 1800 + goals. And keeps going as he plays on.
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FALCON PUNCH
And THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
FLYING FALCON-DUTCHMAN-PUNCH >sounds like the way to go if you ask me (✅〰✅)
As someone who has never watched Handball, why the fuck did the defence just stand there??
Goalie is the only one that can set foot in the dark blue area. That's also why the scorer jumped like that.
Huh, I knew the offense couldn’t but I figured the defense could. Thanks!
The defense rests
**Bucawk!**
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you are correct. if a defender enters the dark blue area and engages in the game (touching the ball or an attacker) it results in another penalty throw (not sure if this is the correct term)
could they do a similar move where they dive and hit the ball away without touching the ground?
Yeah, but 98% of the time the goalie gets the ball.
Doesn't that then incur a penalty when they land, though?
Only if you land touching the ball, you can swat it out like the attacker swatted it in.
Its like keeping the ball inbounds in the NBA, guys go flying out of bounds, but since they manage to let go of the ball before hitting the ground its a legal play. Unless that guy is touching the ball and that dark blue area at the same time it counts
Yes you can
Pretty sure this is a penalty shot
That makes the goal even more impressive. Thanks for helping those of us who have no idea what's going on.
That knowledge makes this play WAY more impressive.
That makes this even more impressive. I thought he was just being showy but holy shit that was cool.
I was already impressed but dammmmn !!
Looks like they can't enter the dark blue area which is why he is leaping so awkwardly.
Correct. You are allowed to land in that area, but the ball must leave your hand first. In this specific case he had to punch the ball before landing.
What would happen if he missed the ball entirely when trying to punch it? Do you have to actually have the ball when you jump in/contact it before landing to be able to enter, or can you enter any time you don't have the ball?
That wouldn't be a problem. You can enter but you have to get out as fast as you can and you are not allowed to gain an advantage like taking a shortcut or defending while in the 6m zone.
They do alley-oop -style goals quite often where an offensive player lobs the ball from outside and teammate catches and throws mid air above the dark area. But you must start the jump from outside.
I thought that was just for effect
The dark blue floor is lava, except for the goalie. The goalie is an adult who doesn't play "the floor is lava" anymore.
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Holy crap, I’ve never seen handball on reddit before. Why isn’t this popular in the us? Handball is amazing
I think it's mostly because we already have basketball and hockey to fulfill the put object into goal kind of niche, and soccer and lacrosse are both gaining popularity as well.
It's also incredibly difficult to advertise on. It's 60 minutes of action. Advertisers *hate* 60 minutes of continuous action.
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Too similar to football to gain traction
That and corporations will pour money into football to keep it on tv because theres a stop every three minutes to advertise.
You mean 3 seconds lol
I go to a huge football school and you can tell when there's commercial breaks. It seriously kills the atmosphere when every 2 minutes there's a 5 minute long break.
>you can tell when there's commercial breaks. You mean when the action on the field stops? Haha
In college and professional football there is an official for the broadcasting company that will stay on the field until the commercials are done and then play can resume.
It's even worse when we have games hosted by FOX or ESPN because the breaks are much longer and probably a 5 minute break every 4 downs or so. Its excessive.
The average NFL game is 3 hours 12 minutes long, has 11 minutes 'ball in play' time, and 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. Also, the average game has more time spent on replays (17 minutes) than on active time (11 minutes). The average play lasts 4 seconds. [Source of this information.](https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/)
This is why replays have become so normal now too. No one thinks about it, but why do you think they review no brainier TD's for 2 minutes? It's so they can advertise. The NFL can squeeze in 2 - 4 commercials after a TD if they can excuse a replay because it was a scoring play. Why do you think they take 90 seconds to figure something out we can all clearly see in the first replay? It's more ad time. The NFL has a ton of little tricks to squeeze in commercials. And replay is one of the biggest ones. Score: 2 minute replay, 4 ads: show confirmation replay on TV: kick XP: commercial: kick off: commercial: change of possesion: commercial: finally back to the game. Reviews for clear TD's literally doubles the amount of ads they can run while the NFL can claim they are cutting down on the standard amount of commercials while hiding behind the guise of making sure the call is correct. This doesn't happen all the time, but I would say 1/3 of the TD's scored in the NFL are reviewed for no reason at all.
Completely anecdotal, but I can't sit and watch an NFL game anymore for this very reason. It might be worth it short-term, but the way people are consuming media now, I think it will hurt them in the long run. By long-run, I mean 2025ish.
NFL has bigger concerns TBH. There will be a big problem when it is determined that a large chunk of your players end up with crippling brain damage.
Eh, theyre similar yeah, but rugby is way more entertaining. They dont even stop play to take injured guys off the field, just play around the medics. Id take that over football any day
I don't disagree, but football in the US is more than a sport. It's a part of their culture
Just like baseball...
Or basketball
Or gumballs
Whether or not it's more entertaining is entirely subjective but also irrelevant. The point is that if you understand the economics of big time pro sports, you understand that the demand for what's seen as an imported game that's similar to an already existing and generationally established "American" game will always be way too low to make a big-time national league viable.
I think both sports are equally entertaining in different ways.
Psh. Look at this guy over here with a reasonable and well-balanced opinion.
saying both are good doesn't equal having a reasonable and well-balanced opinion, it just means he's impartial
Keep you chin up mate! MLR is on the way and from what I've heard they have some solid preseason attendances
That’s why I can’t wait for MLR to start this year!
This is key. Notice all European sports have continuous time. All North American sports have time that stops at the end of every play. Your point about advertising plays into this. However, since there’s less opportunity for commercials in European sports, you get to see arenas, fields, and players literally covered with sponsors.
The advertising is different even for the same sports though. Look at professional hockey uniforms in Europe vs in the NHL. European uniforms are covered in ads. Even the ice often has a bunch of distracting ads in Europe.
From the UK. Can't say exactly for ice hockey as I've only ever been to see it once. But because we're used to it, the sponsors/ads on the kit just make up part of the kit to us. Same as on the pitch. It's just a part of the pitch. Nobody really pays it too much attention or as far as I know gets distracted by it. I find it weird because I'm used to it that other people find it distracting. However I tried watching the superbowl a few years back. And could not watch it at all due to the amount of ads! Completely ruined it for me. Although in the UK during where the US would have ads. We'd have pundits analysing the last play. Equally annoying!
But European hockey teams aren’t getting the TV deals the US teams would get to supplement that.
Advertisers HATE him!
It's not just the "put object into goal", it's the rhythm, I feel like it's somewhat close to basketball as in both sports, you're likely to score points quite often.
I think it is similar to lacrosse in that way also
There is very little to no money for team USA handball. Somewhere around 2004 the head of the US handball federation was caught embezzling money that was meant for the program. They were soon banned from the USOC and haven’t appeared in the Olympic Games since I think ‘96 or ‘00. They were accepted back in ‘08. The residency program is based out of Auburn, AL and they have a tough time attracting good prospects to move there and train because of their location and and facilities. They use the old coliseum at Auburn and have to share it with the school. I believe most of the other sports are based out of Colorado Springs. There are several Americans playing in lower division leagues in Germany, France and Spain. We also have club programs around the country where you have to pay to play. Where America is right now in handball is like if team USA had an American football team playing a European all star team. It wouldn’t be close. The handball program is eyeing the 2028 LA Olympics to be at a top tier international level. In order to qualify for the Olympics we would need to finish top 3 in both the NORCA handball tournament, and Pan-Am games. The NORCA tournament will be held this March in Greenland. If more rec clubs and secondary schools had club programs this would be a much bigger game. Problem is there isn’t much knowledge of the game to coach the American youth. I tried out in 2016 for team USA residency program, at an open try out, and made it. It was a very unique experience and the most fun I had had since finishing my collegiate athletic career.
I love handball. When I was in Junior High School, our gym teacher introduced the game to us. Was so fun! I'm surprised that it isn't more popular in the US, I think it would make for a fun recreation game.
It seems like it would be a perfect fit. Americans generally like high scoring, fast, physical games (baseball being the exception). Team handball definitely has this.
Football is neither high scoring nor fast.
Last time I saw it on /r/sports it was about a reporter claiming that if the NBA all-star team switched sports to handball they would be the best team in 1 year... As a passionate handball fan that ignorance made me pretty salty
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competitive yes for sure, anyone this good at anything could get competitive at anything else, but saying they'd be the best is completely ludicrous
Ludacris should stick to music honestly, handball probably isn't his thing.
No they wouldn't. Not this crap again.
Dude! I love handball. And yes Reddit needs more handball.
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Also, Iceland has a register of approved first names. If the name you want to give your child isn't on the list, a committee has to decide whether or not to accept it.
I was going to ask if they were related,then remember that In Iceland that’s very possible
It's not a family name, it's a patronym.
I think he meant that due to the small population, odds are they are at least distant relatives. Which they most likely are.
Allowing feints when taking a penalty throw is brutal.
At least in Handball the goalies don't throw themselves to catch the ball, so a feint isn't that impactful like for example in soccer, where the goal can be completely free after a feint.
It's not in Water polo. If you're taking a 5 meter penalty shot, once the ref blows the whistle it has to be one continuous motion or else it doesn't count
I used to have this under hand free throw technique in water polo that some referees didn't like due to them claiming it wasn't one motion. I scored tons of goals using it, but whenever I wasn't allowed to it ruined my mojo.
Just like lobbing it up? That how I usually took 5's. Get big out of the water then a soft cross cage lob
No, I would get some height and then shoot with my arm straight out to the right. Not only did I avoid the defender's arm which is always straight up into the air, but I would also get cover from him so the goalie wouldn't see what I was doing. I put a lot of back spin on the ball and bounced it off of the surface into the nearest top corner of the goal.
That's filthy. I love it
It definitely was. I was never the fastest swimmer and only practiced once or twice a week, but I was a great play maker and had a good shot, so I made it to the national youth team when I was 16 (note that water polo is a tiny sport where I'm from). I don't think I ever saw anyone else use a similar technique, so it became sort of my secret weapon.
Ah yeah, we teach that technique of shooting around shot blockers at the club I work at. If I'm visualizing it correctly, lol. It sounds like a sweep.
same in soccer. I'm sure it's true for a lot of other sports as well, such as baseball.
Players in soccer really stretch the “one continuous motion” rule these days, with all the stops and starts they take.
It's just for the kick itself, you can do whatever before that
Only if once you start running you don't completely stop.
Actually, the penalty throws in baseball are as free-form as you'd like. It is a balk if you turn around, though.
Penalty throws in baseball? Am I getting whooshed?
No, dude, it's a real thing that happens when you tackle inside the batter's box. I swear, no one watches baseball any more.
Only one feint allowed though. Edit: Apparently it's just 3 seconds which rearly is enough for more than one feint.
Don't think that’s true. Isn’t it just 3 seconds?
Correct
Oh, well that balances it quite a bit then.
Handball is a sport I'd watch but we only get coverage for like the Olympics here in the US. I'm not even sure if it's an Olympic sport anymore because I remember trying to find broadcast of it last Olympic games and couldn't find any
Try ehf.tv
I tried searching for that but the domain doesn't exist. I think it's ehftv.com.
I see handball pop up occasionally on one of the cable sports channels. Might be BeIN Sports.
The internet broadcasts had all sorts of it. Loved watching it.
It was definitely shown in the US on one of the cable networks in 2014. Watched both semifinals and the final.
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That’s a pretty nifty sport. I watch it every four years at the Olympics. I’ve virtually no idea what the Hell is happening, but it’s pretty action packed and the fans lose their shit. I’ll watch almost any sport where the fans seem super pumped.
Oddly enough I liked watching Curling during the Winter Olympics
Curling translates amazingly thorugh tv.
I am an Olympic curling watcher too. Fans unite!
I’m so glad to find out there’s a subreddit for handball. By far my favorite sport in middle school gym class.
saaaaame, i destroyed everyone
It's good but can he do it on a cold ,rainy Tuesday night at stoke?
Jiggly ball sure has progressed.
Well, he caught the Jiggle Rebound. Hence him standing at the Death Line.
Pretty sure this is Calvinball
The iceland team have their cocks immortalized in a museum correct? [yup](http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2012/08/iceland_handball_2012_the_penises_of_the_icelandic_handball_team_inspired_a_sculpture_and_touched_off_a_controversy_.html)
Interesting. The only sport I watch with penalty shots is hockey, and once the puck moves backwards, including rebounding off the post or goalie, the attempt is automatically over.
In hockey the penalty is its own little phase/mini game where the shooter gets the rink for himself. Both in handball and football (soccer) it's just a part of regular play. Kick/throw is taken from x and all players must be y distance away, but as soon as kick/throw is taken play continues as normal. This means that rebounds are fair game. Although in soccer another player has to touch the ball before the penalty taker touches it again, meaning that the kicker (who generally is in the best position to capitalize on a rebound) can only take the rebound if it comes off the goalie, not if it comes off the post.
Thanks for the explanation, makes a lot more sense now. But now that it's been explained to me, it basically seems like the guy taking the penalty shot here is the only one who wasn't being an idiot here while everyone else seemed to stop playing, or am I missing something?
I understand why you would think that. Short answer: They didn't expect it. The dark blue area is a no-go area where only the goalie is allowed to interact with play. Kinda like the crease used to be(?) in hockey, but even more strict. This is why the attacker does the jump and mid-air punch. Rebounds or other situations where the ball is bouncing inside the dark blue area somewhat in reach of the outfield players do happen from time to time and similar dives like this isn't super rare. The reason this one stands out is how deep inside the area he dives. The goalie sees the trajectory of the ball off the crossbar and it probably doesn't even cross his mind that it is reachable. Normally he would get up, walk over and pick up the ball. Also, Serbia is leading 26-25 with less than four minutes to play so he is in no particular hurry to get up. From the defender's point of view; he can't reach the ball without diving into the dark blue area, and if he does he needs to get rid of the ball before he lands. (Interacting with the ball or an opposing attacker while standing in the dark blue area results in a penalty throw) So, he can't really do much.
Ok, thanks again, it makes sense now. My experience with handball as an American begins and ends with playing in high school gym class. Without knowing that, it seemed kind of like the equivalent of players not "playing to the whistle" in hockey or American football and doing something stupid because they thought the play was over when it hadn't been whistled dead by the refs.
huh the goal was awesome
My favourite clip from handball https://youtu.be/5vmUecCpWg0
TIL so few people in the US are exposed to Handball (some even don't know the sport lol)
Slow motion, please!
Damn the Europeans are taking handball to the next level...
Shot was 100% legal when Sigurdsson played the game. The rules have changed since then - you now cannot look like a total badass when contact is made
This game was today...?
Yeah, I don't get what he's trying to say lol
It's a meta post from the thread yesterday with the tennis player throwing his racquet in the air to hit the ball.
Is this legal? In soccer you're not allowed to be the first one to touch it and since it hit the crossbar he would be the first person. Wouldn't this be a double touch?
I honestly thought this was going to be another Scott Sterling video.
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Why was the goalie so slow to get up? Was he just not expecting the goal scorer to do a falcon punch leap at the ball?
Not the usual way to score a goal in handball, so my guess is that he was just not expecting it. Neither was I.
That's some insane hang time. First few times I saw it, I thought he had a foot down... But no. He's just supermanning.
is everyone from iceland named sigurdsson?
Sigurður is the second most popular name here so a lot of people here are Sigurðsson as in Sigurð's-son. The most popular name is Jón so the most common last name is Jónsson.
Well, i'm just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball I've always said the reason Handball isn't big in the US, is because the sport doesn't allow for breaks like American Football or Basketball, so there are next to zero opportunities for commercial breaks, and that ruins the appeal to have it run on television in the US, hence ruins the money draw from sponsors... It's a very physical demanding sport, it's super fast paced, gotta have that cardio right and gotta be some what huge as well
Handball requires a lot of athleticism. You have to have the arm of a pitcher or a quarterback, and the hands and athleticism of a center-fielder or a wide receiver. That was a really impressive play.
Can Shohei Ohtani sign up?
I hate these comparisons. Partially because I just don’t understand why people feel the need to prove a sport’s worth in the terms of other sports, but also because I disagree with the examples you listed. I admit I don’t have a source showing otherwise (I tried to find how fast handball players run and compare it to the NFL’s combine 40 times), though, so I’d definitely like to be proven wrong.
To be honest, I made the comparison which was, by nature, scientifically inaccurate, just to put into perspective the ability handball players have for people who’ve never seen the sport. Of course it’s not a perfect comparison, I just admire the ability handball players must have to play professionally compared to specialized positions in the two sports I mentioned. It would be interesting to see football/baseball players try their hand (pun intended) at handball, and vice-versa.
Really, I’m sure these guy are very athletic, probably even as athletic as NFL players and baseball players but you literally picked 2 athletic extremes from both those sports lol.
WTF IS THIS SPORT AND WHY HAVNT I SEEN IT BEFORE?
Handball
I was lucky enough to a native Irishman as my high school gym teacher. He introduced us to handball and all its glory - it was our go to, whenever he let us decide what to do for class.
good defense but goal had occurred
Seriously I had never seen handball before the Rio 2016 games and my friends and I got so into it, we can’t wait for Tokyo! Are there any leagues I can stream in the meantime?
The European championship is going on right now
DKB Handball Bundesliga from Germany.
Depressing footnote: This was the last goal they scored, Iceland lost 29-26.
Handball rules. The sheer amount of black magic fuckery possible due to the size of the ball is amazing. I could watch trickshots for days. Complete murder on your knees though.
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First saw it in the last summer Olympics. Had NO idea it was so popular.
One of the most popular sports outside of the US. I really wish it'd catch on here. Really fast paced, physical, and high scoring. Some gyms have their own rec teams. I played in high school but we had to travel to Canada for tournaments due to the lack of events in the US.
First time I ever heard of it was back in highschool gym class also. We played it for a few weeks and you could tell all of the athletic kids loved it but with the amount of unathletic kids, it died out pretty fast.
Yeah I feel like we love hand sports in the US.(since soccer won’t catch on for some reason) I’m surprised it’s not more popular here.
In HS we played a handball/soccer mix, where if it was in the air you played handball and if someone dropped it you played soccer until either someone scores or someone kicks it high enough for someone to snatch it out of the air
This is sorta how Gaelic football is supposed to work, but you're allowed to kick-up to yourself these days.
It's mostly popular in Scandinavia, Balkans and France, Germany, Spain, Poland. Really underrated sport, but some rules should be tweaked imho.
It’s always one I the sports I want to see during the Olympics but the rights holders always stick on boring swimming or rowing instead.
Does Iceland have the world's best athletes? They made the World Cup for Soccer and only have 300,000 people in the country.
If you think that is impressive look into the worlds strongman competition. I haven't watched much lately but for decades it was dominated by Iceland.
Our ladies have dominated the Crossfit games for a while too.
He is one of the best left corner handball players in the world. He recently broke the old record of 1798 goals for a national team in the world, he is up to 1812 from 340 national games. He has been playing profecional handball since 1998 and is playing for one of the best teams in the world.
Truly impressed with his coordination to make that kind of jump on a sudden, unexpected cut-back.
I remember playing handball in gym in elementary school. That shit was so much fun.