What Makes One Korfball Team Better Than Another?

Korfball has specific individual skills and techniques that have evolved over more than a century around passing, shooting and assisting a team mate to acquire space. Competence in these is important, as are speed and athletic ability.

Unlike most other team sports, korfball generally does not assign rigid pre-determined roles to each player within the team – encouraging all players to learn a variety of roles rather than specialising.

Korfball, however, is a game based on co-operative play more than on individual virtuosity. Therefore an understanding of your team-mates' strengths and weaknesses relative to those of your opponents – and the ability to exploit these through well-considered and carefully practiced strategy – is the key to winning korfball.

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