Handball



3/5/2022

Single, about 2h

As I was part of the Erasmus -exchange, I stayed a week at a Catalonian family. My partner was a handballer, and took me with her to one of their practices. 

I had zero previous knowledge or experience of the sport, which was sort of good, at least no negative prejudices. At first, we warmed up by just running and stretching. We played a handball-like warm-up game, where three volunteers had to 'burn' people by throwing a ball at them. When you were burned, you had to to different abdominal exercises, until others were burned as well. After the warm-up, we started to practice some handball drills, such as throwing the ball to the net, running through different circuits, and testing our reflexes by catching a ball.

The practice was such a positive experience, everyone took me as a part of the team, helped when I struggled and congratulated when I succeeded. As I have not been a part of a team in a long time, it felt strange, but familiar. I learned a lot about the sport itself, but a lot about the culture and people as well.

Location: Lleida, Espanja

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