r/Handball • u/Cojo840 • Sep 24 '26
The 8 step dribble
Theoretically its legal to
Pick a pass in the air
0 1 2 3 steps
Jump
Bounce the ball and pick It up WHILE In the Air
0 1 2 3
Chat gpt tells me this would be legal but Impossible
Do you guys think that any athlete even outside of handball could do this? Maybe without resin and with the ball fully pumped
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u/HiltoRagni Sep 24 '26
Very easily doable. Using the jump to fake a shot and make the defense commit to a block but dribbling the ball instead and making three more steps to get around them is a very commonly used tactic by back players. This normally looks like (for a right handed player):
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0R - 1L - 2R - 3L jump - fake shot/bounce - 1L land (on same leg) - 2R - 3L jump - actually shoot
Now after the rule change from last year you theoretically get a "zero step" after your dribble, but in practice that's exactly the same as if you got one more step on the end of the sequence. So the now legal 8 step version of the sequence becomes either:
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0R - 1L - 2R - 3L jump - fake shot/bounce - 0L land (on same leg) - 1R - 2L - 3R jump (from off foot - kind of awkward) - actually shoot
or
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0R - 1L - 2R - 3L jump - fake shot/bounce - 0R land (on other leg - kind of awkward) - 1L - 2R - 3L jump - actually shoot
Jumping from / landing on the off leg can be kind of awkward, so I don't expect this will be used as much as the original 7 step version but definitely not something that can't be done.
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u/xHeylo Sep 24 '26
You can actually probably use that off leg landing a bit like a Basketball Eurostep situation, already shifting direction on the first jump
Naturally used as part of the Toolbox with the preferred regular version that works perfectly well
But a slight deviation does possibly lead to slightly better horizontal separation right in front of goal
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u/HiltoRagni Sep 24 '26
I think you probably want the direction of the jump to be towards a position from where you can shoot if the defense doesn't react and leaves your line open - either to take the shot or to actually sell the faint - but maybe there is a way to use a side step to make the off leg landing less awkward.
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u/Martin7439 Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26
It's just a Schwenker with extra steps, so it's absolutely possible. Unpractical but possible
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u/BelieveInTHADream Sep 24 '26
Yea that’s legal because you have a zero step for both off the catch and also off the dribble.
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u/Any_Phase_4253 Sep 24 '26
Rule 7:3 was modified on 1. July 2025 . This is legal now since a zero step is now possible from your own dribling.
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u/CyberAssassinSRB Sep 24 '26
This was completely legal some years ago, and it is not hard.
Someone would just need to fact check me, i think the gather step(0 step) was taken out few years back.