Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball [Paperback]

Karch Kiraly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 1996

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.

Editorial Reviews

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Rev Sub edition (June 13, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684814668
• ISBN-13: 978-0684814667
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #823,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Other Team Sports > Volleyball

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice. Not very thorough. Offers interesting concepts., May 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball (Paperback)

The book covers the basic techniques and tactics. It is mostly a description of the author's view of how to play, and less a complete description of the possibilities, implications, pros and cons of the various options.

If you want to know how Karch plays - there's some very interesting "inside information". This does not necessarily mean it suits your needs and abilities.

If you value your health, and want to make real progress, skip the chapter about conditioning and strength training - very unprofessional: For example, his gym leg training is knee extensions, rather than leg press / squats, and his view of rest is 24 hours off the gym (in his level he should retire for ~96 hours).

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, February 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball (Paperback)

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.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy companion to Kiraly's BEACH VOLLEYBALL, July 19, 2004

By 

Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Karch Kiraly's Championship Volleyball (Paperback)

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.