Product Description

Play Your Best, On and Off the Beach.

In the volleyball world, the name Karch Kiraly is synonymous with excellence, whether it be in the U.S.A. or abroad, in the gym or on the beach. This revised edition of Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball provides a complete course in volleyball skills, including:

• Serving

• Bumping

• Setting

• Hitting

• Blocking

• Basic and Advanced Team Defense and Offense Strategies

Combine all of this with the expanded chapter on the beach game, and you have the most complete volleyball instructional available.

So, whether you're a beginner just learning the basics or an advanced player looking for the strategy that will blow your opponents off the court, Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball will give you the skills to do it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #530029 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From School Library Journal
YA-- Sound, easily understood advice from an Olympic gold medalist. The textual descriptions of blocking, setting, spiking, and service, as well as techniques for both team play and beach volleyball, are expanded on by a multitude of diagrams and photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Explains how players at any level can improve individual skills while sharpening a team's defensive and offensive strategies and covers all fundamental aspects of the game of volleyball. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author
Besides being a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Karch Kiraly has won over a hundred beach volleyball tournaments and has twice been named the best volleyball player in the world by the FIVB. He is now a full-time beach volleyball player, competing on the Miller Lite AVP tour. He lives in southern California with his wife, Janna, and their two sons, Kristian and Kory.

Customer Reviews

A worthy companion to Kiraly's BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Like Joe Eszterhas, the author of SHOWGIRLS and FLASHDANCE, the parents of Karsh Kiraly emigrated to the US from Hungary, where a repressive regime had limited their rights to work and practice free thought. Kiraly shares with Joe Eszterhas some of the same beliefs in the goodness of America, a land where you can make as much money and accure as much cultural capital as you possibly can. And Kiraly has had it all. In CHAMPIONSHIP VOLLEYBALL it is like having a coach over your shoulder at all times, a coach who is going to teach you to block, bump, pass and spike step by step, with careful diagrams and a consistent "you can do it" attitude.

Funny to think that a childhood cartwheel, in which he injured his hand badly by thrusting it into a gopher hole, led to a general lengthening of one arm and corresponding flexibility, which saw him in good stead when he became a teen. Kiraly proves over and over that when life hands you (or your parents) a lemon, you can turn around and make the finest lemonade from it.

One handy chart included in both editions of KK's CV is the list of VOLLEYBALL MILESTONES at the end.

Great book!
I've been coaching volleyball for 7 years now. This is the best book I've found on skills and strategies. It helped me go from the basics, which is all the farther high school volleyball got when I played, to the advanced game it is today. Easy to read and understand, also.