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JO: why the use of resin has become essential in handball

2021-07-28T05:16:39.064Z


Handball players apply resin to their hands before and during matches. A widespread practice which offers advantages but which also imposes disadvantages.


If you have never played handball in a club, one detail will have inevitably escaped you about the practice of this sport: the presence of a thin layer of resin covering the ball during the matches.

This use of small pots that contain vegetable wax has become essential in all high level competitions.

The resin allows you to have better control of the ball, to better catch it and to control it.

The layer applied to the ball is very effective for the pivots in particular because they must receive the ball with one hand, the other arm is busy to lean on the opposing defender

, ”confirms the former international Jérôme Fernandez.

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Before each game or during training, the players coat their hands with this product which ends up on the surface of the ball.

"

We constantly put it back during the matches

", continues the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion who remembers having had much less recourse to this process.

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Source: lefigaro

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