In 2019 Waterpolo Development has made some changes to HaBaWaBa rules which will be used both in the next HaBaWaBa International Festival (June, 17th-23rd) and HaBaWaBa PLUS U13 (June 23rd-30th): those changes aim to protect the spirit of the game and to help the skills development of the little players.
“We have made these changes – vice president of Waterpolo Development Yiannis Giannouris explains – because we would like to have a kind of waterpolo that promotes movement and decreases physical contact, making the game less dangerous and violent. Our idea is to push the defenders to play with their hands out of the water, without pushing or grabbing the opponent”.
Here below you can find the gallery summarizing the innovations of HaBaWaBa regulation.
