Kempa trick
The player on the right edge of the picture throws the ball to the teammate who is jumping ( Pascal Hens in the picture ), who catches the ball and throws it onto the goal.
The Kempa trick is a handball play in which the ball is passed onto a player jumping towards the goal, who catches it in the air and then throws it immediately onto the goal before it hits the ground again. The trick play was named after the German handball player Bernhard Kempa (1920-2017), multiple German champion as a player and trainer from Frisch Auf Göppingen .
The face-off must be precisely coordinated so that the jumping player gets the ball exactly in the raised arms. If the ball is not played accurately enough, the jumper will not be able to purposefully complete the throw and the ball will fly uncontrollably through the air. In addition, the jumper must have good jumping ability so that he is in the air long enough to play the ball. If he jumps too short, he cannot catch and control the ball in time, making a targeted throw impossible. The goal is only valid if the ball has left the hand before the player hits the ground in the circle .
That is why the Kempa trick is mostly used to please the audience when a game has already been decided. The German national team nevertheless successfully used him in extra time and behind, for example in the semi-finals of the 2007 handball world championship against France.
Since the Kempa trick is technically very demanding, you can only play it properly if the players are individually good and coordinated. The Kempa trick can be combined any number of times by the first player jumping from the air alluding to another. If the move is made technically clean, a defense is usually impossible for field players and goalkeepers because of the short distance to the goal and the speed.
In beach handball, a Kempa goal counts twice as a tricctor. The current record is five Kempa tricks in a row, performed by a Norwegian indoor handball club team. A comparable trick in basketball is the so-called alley oop .
Bernhard Kempa writes about this in his book:
“I'm still happy today when I tell how the trick was born. At Frisch Auf in Göppingen , we always tried a lot in training. Sometimes this, sometimes that. Training should also be fun. And it was during such fun exercises that I invented the trick. "
Kempa defined the trick as follows:
"A player lifts the ball over the defense, his teammate jumps as high as possible into the throwing circle, catches the ball in flight and throws a goal."
A special variant is the Kempa trick from the back room, also called "Kempa from the second row". A back area player is played by a teammate during the jump phase. The following goal throw takes place before landing. This makes it possible in many cases to score against strong blocking players, as the process is considerably faster than passing-catching-jumping-on-goal. The goalkeeper is also usually surprised by this throw variant. According to Martin Heuberger , this is a very promising, but also risky litter variant.
A chance product as a successful final variant: “A pass from Kempa got stuck on an opponent during training and jumped onto the ground in a circle. Yarosch jumped after, caught the bouncing ball and threw it on goal. This variant was subsequently refined by simply omitting the opponent's ball contact. That is supposed to have been the actual origin of the Kempa trick, even if other versions are still in circulation, ”says Volker Schneller , recalling a conversation with Kempa about the origins of the trick.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Kempa: Ball is the trump card. , P. 191, 2002. ISBN 3-933486-25-4 .
- ↑ The Fritz Walter of German handball. In: FAZ-net from November 19, 2010.
- ↑ handball training: "Kempa" from the back room , 3/2006, pp. 36–37.
- ↑ On the death of Bernhard Kempas - memories of Volker Schneller , handball-world , July 24, 2017.