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The thought of writing this article arose two years ago, when we set grounds for the revitalization of handball activities at children’s and junior player’s level as coordinator of the programme HANDBAL TRANSILVANIA JUNIOR initiated by the foundation HANDBAL CLUJ TRANSILVANIA. Eight children’s centers were created in different towns across Transilvania, such as: Cluj, Bistriţa, Năsăud, Târgu Mureş, Alba Iulia şi Câmpia Turzii. These centers provide excellent training facilities and they are led by experienced trainers using modern training methods for teaching the children. Already during the first training sessions we notices the children’s pleasure and joy while playing with the ball. As a consecquence we recommended usind dynamic and movement games as a main part of the training session in order to learn the main elements and technical procedures of the handball game. As we noticed outstanding results within a short period of time, we decided to conduct a comparative study between the classic training method for children according to the specific curriculum for their age and the method using dynamic and movement games within the training process. Thus the team „Universitatea Transilvania Cluj-Napoca” used the method of movement games, while the team „LPS Bistriţa” used the classic training method. At the end of the training period which lasted one year the members of the two teams were evaluated using two different methods. On the one hand we compared the results from the national junior III championship, and on the other hand we studied the results in the different physical tests the athletes took.

Keywords: modern methods, training, dynamic games, handball, competition, performance.