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FOR ALL OF US THAT LOVE WATCHING VOLLEYBALL BUT HAVE A TENDENCY TO GET A LITTLE TOO INVOLVED IN THE GAME.FOR THOSE OF US THAT CROSS THE LINE BETWEEN SUPPORTIVE FAN AND OBNOXIOUS SPECTATOR.THIS BOOK WILL SERVE AS A GENTLE AND HILARIOUS REMINDER THATCOACHES COACH, OFFICIALS OFFICIATE, PLAYERS PLAY, AND PARENTS PARENT (CHEER, HUG, ENCOURAGE, HELP TRANSPORT, FEED).WRITTEN BY AN EXPERIENCED VOLLEYBALL MOM AND USA VOLLEYBALL, THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO MAKE THE VOLLEYBALL COURT A MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE PLACE FOR US ALL TO BE. ... Read more

Book Description
Practice like a champion!Make the most of each minute on the court by using drills that demand 100% effort and concentration. Volleyball Drills for Champions provides 73 practice activities to produce the maximum individual player and team development at any competitive level.

Seven of the world's top volleyball coaches combined their knowledge to produce this special practice tool. Each coach focuses on one of volleyball's key skills:

• Serving: Russ Rose, Pennsylvania State University

• Passing: Lisa Love, University of Southern California

• Setting: John Dunning, University of the Pacific

• Attacking: Brad Saindon, Australia National Team

• Blocking: Greg Giovanazzi, University of Michigan

• Digging: Jim Stone, Ohio State University

In addition, editor Mary Wise, head coach at the University of Florida, contributes valuable insights for designing drills and incorporating them into effective practice sessions.

Become a champion by practicing like one. Volleyball Drills for Champions will help you turn hard work on the practice court into title-winning seasons. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Great book of Drills
Not a season goes by I don't give this book a twice over to look for some drill I might of missed, great read for new and experienced coaches.

Oh no, not another drill book! Well, kind of...
One problem with being a beginning coach is the constant and nagging suspicion that there is one absolute and definitive drill that will magically solve all of your problems for you.Well, no.It takes asystematic design of the practice and a good understanding to coach thesport.But what is a beginning coach to do?

This book is a good sourcefor drills, but Coach Wise presents the drills in a format that encouragespeople to think about the skill first and then go into the drills.This isa drill book but it is a little more than that.Each chapter breaks downthe essntials of the theme of the chapter and THEN goes into the drills. For those desperate for more drills, that does not prove to be enough of aside track to force them to think about what they are teaching, but forthose who do stop and reflect on the technique and skills required toperform the drills, it is a nice touch that proves to be very beneficial. Because of the scattered nature of the book, a name college coachwroteeach of the chapters, this is a compendium of knowledge which is quiteuneven in terms of writing.But is serves its purpose well.

I wouldrecommend Arie Selinger's book and Mike Hebert's book for more advancedcoaches and Bill Neville's book for beginning coaches who actually wants tocoach and not just throw the kids into a maze of drills.

GOOD PLACE TO START.
This book has a lot of good basic drill for the technical game of volleyball. I must say, for the coach that does not have a lot of drill tucked away in his/her head, this book is a definiteasset. It has a lotof good solid drills that would help any coach. I would have like to haveseen some more technical drill, but on the other hand, if your team canhandle all of the drills provided, your doing alright..Well worth themoney.. Thanks ... Read more

Book 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. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

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.

Nice. Not very thorough. Offers interesting concepts.
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 thevarious options.

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

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

Karch is King!
Volleyball's most decorated player in history [winner of 3 gold medals in the Olympics (2 indoor and 1 outdoor), over 130 career wins on the A.V.P. Tour, the #1 leader in career prize money,etc.], Karch Kiraly has yetanother career ahead of him in writing. Karch teaches you to become abetter volleyball player and the techiniques he uses to be 'numero uno.' Ithink it's well written and he's added more about the beach game.Everything that Karch does is 'golden!'

The best thing about my copy ofKarch's book is I had him sign it for me! So, go out to the next A.V.P.event or if you see him practicing, and ask him to do the same. I can'twait to read some of his other books in the near future!

Karch is King!
Volleyball's most decorated player in history [winner of 3 gold medals in the Olympics (2 indoor and 1 outdoor), over 130 career wins on the A.V.P. Tour, the #1 leader in career prize money,etc.], Karch Kiraly has yetanother career ahead of him in writing. Karch teaches you to become abetter volleyball player and the techiniques he uses to be 'numero uno.' Ithink it's well written and he's added more about the beach game.Everything that Karch does is 'golden!'

The best thing about my copy ofKarch's book is I had him sign it for me! So, go out to the next A.V.P.event or if you see him practicing, and ask him to do the same. I can'twait to read some of his other books in the near future! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A bit dense for beginning coaches.
This is a book that I looked forward to reading.After many years of trying, I finally got the jist of it.

Carl McGown is a very knowledgable coach.He will coach cirles around a lot of people.Theinformation in the book however is a little too academic for the beginningcoach, or even the intermediate coach.Lots of great ideas and informationhere, but it is really hard to make sense of it.

This book isn't foreverybody.Least of all the beginner to the game.

One of the finest books ever written about volleball
Carl McGowen has compiled one of the best books written about the sport.The subject covered are wide ranging and not often covered in other how-to books.I recommend it to any coach. ... Read more

Book Description
Coaching Volleyball Successfully concentrates on teaching the club, junior high, or high school coach how to explain, demonstrate, and direct the practice of fundamental skills and strategies of volleyball. This book is not limited to teaching coaches how to perform required volleyball skills, but rather focuses on how to teach these skills to young or inexperienced athletes. The book is also designed to help coaches with high-level sport skills tailor their instruction to meet the basic needs of beginning players.

Used as the text for Level 1 of USA Volleyball's Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP), this book is full of proven techniques that make it ideal for home study and as a reference at team practices. Because coaching involves two distinct functions, teaching skills and organizing practices, Coaching Volleyball Successfully is divided into two sections.

The Volleyball Coaching Guide details how to perform and teach fundamental volleyball skills and includes over 40 drills and activities to help your players improve their skills quickly.

The Volleyball Planning Guide explains how to plan your season and conduct effective practices with ready-to-use practice plans that will help prepare your players for their first match. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Good basic book, with good perspective
This book is used as the textbook for the first level of the Coaching Accreditation Program for USA Volleyball.It has a good broad perspective on the game, how to motivate and how to teach the skills.It also goes thethrough season and practice planning and breaks down the process in a verybasic manner, which I found very useful.

A great beginning coach'sbook.

Best Coaching Book Available
Bill Neville breaks a season/practice/match into simple parts which he then walks you through progressions.This book will help the starting coach up through experienced high school coaches. Get this book today if you want to improve your volleyball coaching. ... Read more

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Really good book for players and coaches
I'm a coach and a player. I use alot of the principles from this book in training my team and it's done very well to motivate the players I would reccomend this book to all coaches and players.
I find ita good resource for myself.

The answer I've been looking for.
If ever there was a book I wish I could have read when I was a young athlete Volleyball Cybernetics would be that book.This book is a must read for volleyball coaches and I would recommend this book for any young athlete - even if they don't play volleyball.Why?Two reasons:

1)As a teenage athlete I had the skills, I had some good coaches,I had the heart.I just did not have the mental fortitude - the strength of mind to enable me to take my game to my highest level.And that is what this book is all about, developing the mind game, developing that element of talent which separates the champions from the contenders, the great ones from the 'could have beens',And I should know, I was a 'could have been' because I did not have the mental skills to capitalize on my athletic potential.But no regrets.No worries.

2)I have a daughter who plays volleyball.She's pretty good and sincerely wants to get better.She works hard at improving her skills and I support and encourage her as much as I can.But there have been times when she would be having a 'bad' game and get into a mental and emotional slump.At those time she would come unglued and all I could do was sit back and watch my child self-destruct and fall apart.No parent enjoys that picture so I started buying all kinds of volleyball training and playing and skills and drills and conditioning books looking for some answers.I bought her some plyometric jump training shoes, got her some private coaching figuring that more training would solve the problem.NOT!The extra training helped tremendously but physical training without proper mental training will only produce a contender - and not a champion.Take my word for it.

And creating champions is the focus of Volleyball Cybernetics.When I came across this book I was elated.I had finally found the master key to help my daughter.This books really gets into the mental preparation and emotional training needed to produce a Brett Farve, a Serena Williams, a Tiger Woods. It is loaded with tons of mental skill development techniques that are fun and effective.Did you ever want to know how to enter "The Zone" - that supremely confident state of mind where you can do no wrong?Then read this book.Frustration, fear, embarrassment, succumbing to the pressure, low self esteem, lost confidence, procrastination, avoidance, lack of composure, timidity, choking and other negative states of mind can be obliterated using the material in this book.Now I'm sitting back and watching my daughter get mentally tougher each practice.And I'm loving every minute of it.

If you or your child have a true desire to be the best, are willing to put in the physical dedication and just need to develop the mental discipline to be a champion then buy this book, apply the information and your success is assured.(It also helps to have some good coaching.)

As a matter of fact, even though I'm getting close to 50 and I have never played volleyball, I am so pumped up by this information that I am considering getting into the game because I believe Volleyball Cybernetics can even work for me.Fortunately, I have kept myself in excellent physical condition and I do have some athletic ability left. (Plus I got great medical benefits). Besides, why should my daughter have all the fun.I feel that I have found the missing piece that I've needed to once and for all bury those old memories of my classic chokes. With this information I feel I can finally rise to the challenge and reach for some athletic glory even at my age.So why not give it a try.Enough of this arm chair quarterbacking.GAME ON!

This should be in every coach's library.
Without actually trying some of the techniques outlined in the book, the whole thing might be considered positive-attitude pyscho-babble.Try some of the techniques on yourself.It's good stuff!

The book is a quick,easy read.I'll be first in line to pick up a followup. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

An older guide
I was in search of some resources to guide a brand new coach who isn't all that familiar with the technical details of the game.This book contains lengthy descriptions of the rules and explanations of the different roles each player has on the court.I found all of this helpful.My only complaint is since this is an older book it does not mention rally scoring which is predominatly in use today.The book centers on describing the old 15 point system, and the rules associated with that.I'm glad that it took the time to explain what each job on the court is and so I am happy with my purchase as a whole.

great!
This book was very useful.. I consulted it as my Bible for my first season coaching volleyball. Includes many drills, graphics and more.

send to me that book
i want that book to use it to train my team .

send to me that book
i want that book to use it to train my team . ... Read more

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Arie Selenger's Power Volleyball
I consider this book to be one of the best ever written.
The detail is fantastic.
I refer to sections every week.
I was just reviewing the section on spiking.
A few weeks ago I reviewed the team play on the down call.
Every time I read it I learn more.

I just want Arie to write a new book with his experience in Japan

Vic Lindal
Canadian National coach 69 to 72
currently coaching club (16 and 17 girls)
On Vancouver Island BC

A valuable addition to every coach's library
I picked this book up shortly after it first came out.Back then I was a budding new coach.It opened so many avenues of study for me in my development over the years that followed.I can honestly say that without this book I would not likely have become the coach that I am today.It is in my library still and I continue to refer to it from time to time.

A legendary coach shares his expertise.
Arie Selinger is a legend among coaches, and this book won't let fans of the former coach of the U.S. Women's Olympic Team down. Whether you want to learn more about Arie's philosophy or to pick up some tips for your own game, this book is worth a read.

As a high school coach, I've implemented many of Arie's ideas into the program I took over 3 years ago, a program that had struggled for decades. And this season, I'm proud to say, we posted only the 3rd winning record in school history. A complete turnaround in 3 years!

Our girls now FEEL like winners, and players that's the first step toward becoming winners. Arie Selenger's Power Volleyball helped bring that change about, and that's high praise, indeed.

A professional volleyball coach's view on the sport
I just returned from an Arie Selinger camp and it was terrific.The man is passionate about the sport and is obviously extremely knowledgable.He has spent the last 40 years thinking about the training and the teaching ofthe game.Whether it has to do with technique, strategy, training, mentalgame, or state of the game, he has an opinion which is more than backed upwith experience and data.Lots of data.

The book is a little problematicin that the explanations of the concepts are a little too involved for thebeginning coach.But the man is obviously the foremost thinker on the gamethat the American game has seen in a long time.You may disagree with hisconclusions, but his attention to detail and his arguements for his ideasare very strong.He is a great believer in statistics and measuringprogress, so a lot of it has to do with measuring athleteaccomplishments.

If you are looking to get a book to help your kids withtheir intramural team, forget about this book.If you are out to learn tocoach volleyball at a very high level, this could be the one book you need. Keep in mind that he has always dealt with the highest level of athletesand have had the luxury of training six hours a day seven days a week, sosome of the offense are way too complicated, even for college teams. Butthey are good ideas which stimulated even more ideas.

I wish he had putin more of his unique training ideas based on the Asian trainingmethodology, but that is quibbling. ... Read more

Product Description
Describes volleyball, the skills needed for it, and ways to compete. ... Read more

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story book
This is more of a story book than an information book.Not a book for you if you are looking for ways to coach girls.Would be good for girls who are starting to look into playing volleyball.I was disappointed. ... Read more

Book Description
Written for both players and coaches at all competitive levels, this volume presents drills for developing and improving game action skills. All drills are illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams and focus on team play, providing information that can improve any team's win-loss record. A must for participants at all levels of play!Bob Bertucci has been a head volleyball coach for more than fifteen years, the past six at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. He was named the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Coach of the Year in 1988, 1990, and 1992. James Peterson, PhD, is the author of over thirty sports and fitness books. A former instructor at the United States Military Academy, he is currently Director of Sports Medicine for StairMaster Sports/Medical Products, Inc. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

good basic book
This book helped a great deal as abeginning volleyball instructor

VOLLEYBALL DRILL BOOK;GAME ACTION DRILLS
THE BOOK HAS THE SAME DRILLS AS ANYOTHER BOOK NO NEW DRILLS DESCRIPTION VERY VAGUE.

It's volleyball, not rocket science
I'm trying to help myself and my team improve so I bought this game action drills book. There are no pictures to demonstrate proper stances, only X's and O's. I felt like I was in a Pro Football locker room. The book is obviously aimed at the experienced coach who understands the jargon and the diagrams. I found my help at the local library in the kids volleyball section. [....]

Volleyball Unbalanced
Introduction: The following article is about a high school physical education project that has impacted the Federation International de Volleyball to change its rule of play for volleyball. Before the invention of Rocball, a game developed by high school students in Saipan, volleyball had no significant rule changes from 1895 to almost 1995. The developement of Rocball in 1980, its 18 years as an organized sporting activity and its subsequent media coverages, is the game that has changed the way this kind of team net sport will forever be played.NEWS RELEASE: 6/16/01

ASPORT'SCORPSE

AFFLICTION: (1:5)When the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) disemboweled volleyball of its side out scoring system, they eviscerated volleyball of some of its most prolific and unique competitive features. Now, what FIVB is presently promoting as volleyball, under the malefic influence of rally point scoring, is nothing more than the reanimated corpse of what W.G. Morgan created as a team net sport back in 1895.

SYMPTOM: (2:5)The fact is, if the FIVB had any sense of balance, insight, intuitive perceptions, or integral rational when they attempted to remold volleyball's scoring system, they would have benefited far better, if they would have taken advantage of what potential volleyball had to offer, and should have put more mental effort into working with the intrinsic values of volleyball's side out scoring system's competitive nature. But, they didn't and in their attempt to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system, they failed miserably. The FIVB, either by ignorance, by fault of thought, or suffering from acute vacuity, neglected to recognize the importance of the serve and the significance of the service team's position in this kind of team net sport, as the game's catylists.

DIAGNOSIS: (3:5)Under the rally point scoring system, the team in service is handicapped with the serve, and the receiving team is in the dilemna of having the scoring advantage for the disadvantage of the serve. The team in service has one hit to send a ball over the net on the serve to score points. The receiving team has the advantage of three hits to set up a counterattack and numerous different types of opportunities to score points off the serve. So, under the rally point scoring system, it would seem that the serve has become more of a sacrfice than a challenge.

What is the source of origin for rally point scoring? The following is a description of the rules of play for ping pong with inserts in parenthesis to highlight its rally point connection: "hitting the ball back and forth over the net until one player (team player) missess the ball, or hits it onto the net or off the table (court); in each of these cases, the opponent scores a point. When a serve touches the net (hits the net and slides down on the opponent's court) but otherwise a good serve, it is called a "let". Ping pong is a game where each player has a paddle and one hit to bounce the ball off the table, on serve or in play, to send it over the net in an attempt to score.

Under the influence of ping pong via the rally point scoring system, in a scenario where team "A" and "B" start a game with team "A" in service: If team "A" makes a bad serve like a line fault, team "B" will earn a point. Then team "B" earns the right to be disadvantaged with the serve: If team "B" serves the ball into the net for a bad serve, team "A" will earn a point and then they will be burden with the serve again. When team "A" makes their second serve, if they hit the ball over the net and scuccessfully score a point against team "B", team "A" will have to make a third serve. If team "A" then hits the ball over the net and out of bounds, team "B" will earn another point.

In the four serves just described, the ball was only served over the net once. Team "A" served the ball three times and was the only team that hit or served the ball over the net. Team "B" served the ball once and they never hit the ball over the net. Four points were scored and as incredible as it is, truth being stranger than fiction, team "A" and team "B" are tied at two points each. If that isn't an inflated and gross misrepresentation of the net value of competitive action in an offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport, it will have to do unless something worse comes along, if that's possible.

And if all of that isn't bad enough, if team "A" and team "B" have scored a game to set point 23 to 24, and team "A" is at service with 23 points and makes a bad serve, team "B" wins the set. The ball doesn't have to be served over the net and a team doesn't have to be challenged to hit the ball off the serve to win a set.

The rally point scoring system's anemic, self inflicting, unearned error point's system and its anticlimatic methods of winning a game, are not examples of how anomalies may be created when working to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport. These are two different stages of how and when rigormortis sets into a team net sport that has been unbalanced, become redundantly repetitive, is suffering from stress, competitive convulsion, and shock. And, they are the direct results of the Fallacious Indolent Vertiginous Blounderers (FIVB) efforts to make a team sport out of ping pong and displace it onto a volleyball court.

THERAPY: (4:5)Under the side out scoring system, a served ball is a challenge and a threat because it can't be penalized error points to the advantage of the service team's opponent. However, It is also the responsibility of the team in service to provoke a competitive situation of cause and effect. When a team in service fails to fullfill the character of its role, a penalty situation would be defined and enforced. And, a service penalty where a point would be lost instead of awarded to a team by error would be more the proper judgement of an offensive and defensive scoring system's competitive nature for a team net sport.

In a game like volleyball, the service team's exclusive advantage to maintain earned points off the serve should remain inviolate. If the service team fails in its responsibility to successfully challenge its opponents off the serve, it should be penalized a point. The service team would lose one point off its score. From this method, a service team's opponents would benefit by either increasing its lead, reducing the service teams lead, or gaining the lead if both teams are tied. But, most important of all, there would be no unearned points awarded, non competitive action would be devalued, and each team would have to gain set/game point off the net value of its own competitive scoring strategies and skills.

However, in order for the serve to be valuable enough to compete for in a offensive and defensive side out scoring system, the receiving team would be limited with two hits off any serve. When the receiving team is then able to successfully hit and send the ball back over the net in two hits, the service team would be the first team to have the three hit advantage of setting up an attack to score. The receiving team could earn the service off their two hit defense of the serve, but they would not be allowed to score unless they successfully defended against the service team's three hit attack. The third time the ball is hit over the net, is after the service team has had first opportunity to set up an attack off three hits. The third time the ball crosses over the net, is also when the receiving team would have its three hits to set up a counter attack and score points. Then both teams would be under equitable competive circumstances and whichever team scored first, would win the advantages of the serve.

And, only the first serve of the person occuppying or rotating into the service position would be subject to penalty. Otherwise, all that would have been created, would be an inversion of what has degenerated the game of volleyball under the rally point scoring system; where every non-competitive action off any serve, is an unearned error point for the service team's opponent. It is enough that a team loses a point and the scoring advantages of the serve, off the first serve. Making a bad serve on any subsequent serves, would cost the service team its scoring advantage, but any further non-competitive serve would remain neutral.

The serve, in a team net sport, should create an atmosphere of anxiety not conditions of anticipation for the service team's opponents. The competitive environment in a situation where there is offensive and defensive scoring system, requires adjustments in order for the service team to maintain its scoring advantage. The service team would have the advantage of two point aces and an optional scoring technique to offset its own penalty in service. The two point ace occurs when, off the serve, a receiving team player hits a serve

Not what it appears to be
Though this book seems to boast ideas for self-improvement, the title "Individual Skills" is misleading.I was looking forward to discovering some drills I could do on my own to improve my performance but when I got the book, I found nearly every drill listed requires full team.There are some good ideas for teams, but as far as individually, the book lacks in suggestions for self-improvement independent.I would not recommend this book to anyone who is playing recreational volleyball and looking to improve on his/her own time. ... Read more

Book Description
Volume #3 of the three book series of "Sands of Time" The History of Beach Volleyball covers the years 1990-2004. The book has 480 pages with 1000 photos. Volume#3includes a summary of Men and Women's beach volleyball. Beach volleyball events, information, anecdotes and tournament results are recorded along with a pictorial history that integrates with the events of beach volleyball in the 90's as well as the 21st century.This book includes information and results for Domestic as well as International events. ... Read more

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Unrivaled Photos
In terms of one-of-a-kind photos, this book has it all.I still can't figure out how this guy got his hands on some of these pictures, but I'm glad he did.The only thing that I thought was lacking was any sort of imaginative text, but I guess the series is intended to be more of a beach volleyball "almanac" than the latest John Irving masterpiece.

I grew up playing beach volleyball in the 70's, 80's and 90's in Santa Monica and had the pleasure of being annihilated by some of the main characters (Stoklos, Menges, Lee, Gage, etc.).As a player or even just an afficionado, "The History of Beach Volleyball" (any volume) is a must! ... Read more

Book Description
University co-developed by internationally recognized coaches, Volleyball Interactive Volume 1 contains 200 full motion video drills and coaching aids that enable the creation of lesson practice plans that can be viewed and printed. Select from over 200 volleyball drills ranging from basic drills for volleying and serving, to more intermediate level drills.

INTERACTIVE VOLLEYBALL CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE SESSION.

At the heart of the program is the Drills Database with hundreds of full-video drills for access to every skill at your team's level. Choose the drill selection criteria based on your practice goals under the headings of Ability Level, Skill, Degree of Complexity, Stage of Development and Drill Type. The program will then search and identify drills meeting the specified criteria. Once you have selected and viewed your drills, slide them into the practice/lesson plan template . . . NO MORE BORING PRACTICES!! Any of the 200 drills may be modified, or start from scratch to design and save your own drill as you customize YOUR plan. This practical masterpiece is the only one of it type in the world . . . a collection of drills from winning coaches to take your athletes to a new level.

PLANNING HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY!

You will love the practice/lesson planner. It is the ultimate tool for designing efficient, effective practice and lesson plans in just minutes. Design 1 - 2 hour sessions in less than 15 minutes, and show up in the gym with a printout of your training plan. In just minutes, prepare an entire session for your substitute coach to follow. Start the template with your session goals, either by inputting them by yourself or choosing from over 20 examples. Type in your announcements and warm-up. The amount of time spent on each activity is automatically tabulated and printed based on the specified start time - you'll know exactly when to start and finish each activity. Next, all drills previously selected appear on the screen for reviewing, timing, re-arranging and selecting for printout in your practice plan. The actual video of the selected drill provides one more way to exploit the program. Show your athletes the drill as performed by elite players. Finally, enter the desired cool-down and any notes and comment relevant to your session. Hit the PRINT button and "voila" . . . YOUR session is in hand.

PUTS FUN AND CREATIVITY BACK INTO PLANNING! ... Read more

Book Description
Volume 4 of the "Best of Coaching Volleyball" series covers some of the finer points and intangibles that are so important to winning programs. Sections include The Art of Communication, Coaching Philosophy and Ethics, and Statistics and Strategies.This outstanding volume of articles includes 24 contributions from volleyball coaches, strength and conditioning specialists, and other sports professionals. ... Read more

Book Description
This unique book presents in-depth coverage of the fundamental skills ofvolleyball, with emphasis on learning and development that will lead tovolleyball success. Written specifically for the benefit of the player, eachskill is described in detail and analyzed in comparison to other techniques inorder to explicitly show why one skill may be preferred over another. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

In-Depth Volleyball
There are a lot of volleyball books on the market today and, of course, they are mostly opinions on technique, style, etc.This book will give a good foundation for anyone interested in volleyball.Very well thought through.Very well written.
Enjoy!

A comprehensive guide to volleyball.
Bob Howard gives a very complete and easy to understand guide to volleyball technique using the most up to date theories available today.It is presented in a format that is both helpful to the volleyball player as well as those in the coaching profession.

An Understanding, Yes
I understand Volleyball in its entirety. But, Robert E. Howard ... Read more

Book Description
The purpose of this book is to help the experienced player take his/her game to the next level.Most people who play doubles are unaware of the higher principles of the game.This lack of understanding is largely due to the fact that those principles have never been established in writing for people to study, discuss, debate and apply.Once you learn and begin to apply the higher principles to your game, you will improve and find yourself beating teams that were accustomed to beating you.

And won't that be fun! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Bién organizado.
Este libro es para quienes ya tienen algún tiempo jugando. En el libro, se hacen referencias directas (sin más explicación) a ciertas posiciones en la cancha que solo quienes tienen experiencia podrán comprender, de lo contrario, tendrás que usar tu imaginación para descifrar lo que se quiere decir.
El libro está bién organizado en secciones claras y bién descritas.
Las pocas fotografías (3) son pésimas y las ilustraciónes --a base de caricaturas-- muy malas.
Sin embargo, es el único libro (que yo sepa) que trata de manera técnica la forma adecuada de ganar más partidos, trata pués, del juego en si.

It doesn't get better than this...
If you're already a good player this book will take you to the next level.If you've got mediocre skills it's not going to do much for you because you haven't "arrived" at a mental/experience level good enough to take advantage of it.I loved the book and would recommend it to any one who wants to get better.Sure, you can go buy a book from Karch Kiraly but all it's going to do is tell you how to pass, set, and hit.His books, along with other "super stars"are geared for everyone, experienced or not.Like the book description says...it's for serious players wanting to improve their game.Don't buy the book expecting it to be a picture library...buy it because you're serious about volleyball and want a mental edge on your opponents.

Volleyball Unbalanced
Introduction: The following article is about a high school physical education project that has impacted the Federation International de Volleyball to change its rule of play for volleyball. Before the invention of Rocball, a game developed by high school students in Saipan, volleyball had no significant rule changes from 1895 to almost 1995. The developement of Rocball in 1980, its 18 years as an organized sporting activity and its subsequent media coverages, is the game that has changed the way this kind of team net sport will forever be played.NEWS RELEASE: 6/16/01

ASPORT'SCORPSE

AFFLICTION: (1:5)When the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) disemboweled volleyball of its side out scoring system, they eviscerated volleyball of some of its most prolific and unique competitive features. Now, what FIVB is presently promoting as volleyball, under the malefic influence of rally point scoring, is nothing more than the reanimated corpse of what W.G. Morgan created as a team net sport back in 1895.

SYMPTOM: (2:5)The fact is, if the FIVB had any sense of balance, insight, intuitive perceptions, or integral rational when they attempted to remold volleyball's scoring system, they would have benefited far better, if they would have taken advantage of what potential volleyball had to offer, and should have put more mental effort into working with the intrinsic values of volleyball's side out scoring system's competitive nature. But, they didn't and in their attempt to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system, they failed miserably. The FIVB, either by ignorance, by fault of thought, or suffering from acute vacuity, neglected to recognize the importance of the serve and the significance of the service team's position in this kind of team net sport, as the game's catylists.

DIAGNOSIS: (3:5)Under the rally point scoring system, the team in service is handicapped with the serve, and the receiving team is in the dilemna of having the scoring advantage for the disadvantage of the serve. The team in service has one hit to send a ball over the net on the serve to score points. The receiving team has the advantage of three hits to set up a counterattack and numerous different types of opportunities to score points off the serve. So, under the rally point scoring system, it would seem that the serve has become more of a sacrfice than a challenge.

What is the source of origin for rally point scoring? The following is a description of the rules of play for ping pong with inserts in parenthesis to highlight its rally point connection: "hitting the ball back and forth over the net until one player (team player) missess the ball, or hits it onto the net or off the table (court); in each of these cases, the opponent scores a point. When a serve touches the net (hits the net and slides down on the opponent's court) but otherwise a good serve, it is called a "let". Ping pong is a game where each player has a paddle and one hit to bounce the ball off the table, on serve or in play, to send it over the net in an attempt to score.

Under the influence of ping pong via the rally point scoring system, in a scenario where team "A" and "B" start a game with team "A" in service: If team "A" makes a bad serve like a line fault, team "B" will earn a point. Then team "B" earns the right to be disadvantaged with the serve: If team "B" serves the ball into the net for a bad serve, team "A" will earn a point and then they will be burden with the serve again. When team "A" makes their second serve, if they hit the ball over the net and scuccessfully score a point against team "B", team "A" will have to make a third serve. If team "A" then hits the ball over the net and out of bounds, team "B" will earn another point.

In the four serves just described, the ball was only served over the net once. Team "A" served the ball three times and was the only team that hit or served the ball over the net. Team "B" served the ball once and they never hit the ball over the net. Four points were scored and as incredible as it is, truth being stranger than fiction, team "A" and team "B" are tied at two points each. If that isn't an inflated and gross misrepresentation of the net value of competitive action in an offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport, it will have to do unless something worse comes along, if that's possible.

And if all of that isn't bad enough, if team "A" and team "B" have scored a game to set point 23 to 24, and team "A" is at service with 23 points and makes a bad serve, team "B" wins the set. The ball doesn't have to be served over the net and a team doesn't have to be challenged to hit the ball off the serve to win a set.

The rally point scoring system's anemic, self inflicting, unearned error point's system and its anticlimatic methods of winning a game, are not examples of how anomalies may be created when working to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport. These are two different stages of how and when rigormortis sets into a team net sport that has been unbalanced, become redundantly repetitive, is suffering from stress, competitive convulsion, and shock. And, they are the direct results of the Fallacious Indolent Vertiginous Blounderers (FIVB) efforts to make a team sport out of ping pong and displace it onto a volleyball court.

THERAPY: (4:5)Under the side out scoring system, a served ball is a challenge and a threat because it can't be penalized error points to the advantage of the service team's opponent. However, It is also the responsibility of the team in service to provoke a competitive situation of cause and effect. When a team in service fails to fullfill the character of its role, a penalty situation would be defined and enforced. And, a service penalty where a point would be lost instead of awarded to a team by error would be more the proper judgement of an offensive and defensive scoring system's competitive nature for a team net sport.

In a game like volleyball, the service team's exclusive advantage to maintain earned points off the serve should remain inviolate. If the service team fails in its responsibility to successfully challenge its opponents off the serve, it should be penalized a point. The service team would lose one point off its score. From this method, a service team's opponents would benefit by either increasing its lead, reducing the service teams lead, or gaining the lead if both teams are tied. But, most important of all, there would be no unearned points awarded, non competitive action would be devalued, and each team would have to gain set/game point off the net value of its own competitive scoring strategies and skills.

However, in order for the serve to be valuable enough to compete for in a offensive and defensive side out scoring system, the receiving team would be limited with two hits off any serve. When the receiving team is then able to successfully hit and send the ball back over the net in two hits, the service team would be the first team to have the three hit advantage of setting up an attack to score. The receiving team could earn the service off their two hit defense of the serve, but they would not be allowed to score unless they successfully defended against the service team's three hit attack. The third time the ball is hit over the net, is after the service team has had first opportunity to set up an attack off three hits. The third time the ball crosses over the net, is also when the receiving team would have its three hits to set up a counter attack and score points. Then both teams would be under equitable competive circumstances and whichever team scored first, would win the advantages of the serve.

And, only the first serve of the person occuppying or rotating into the service position would be subject to penalty. Otherwise, all that would have been created, would be an inversion of what has degenerated the game of volleyball under the rally point scoring system; where every non-competitive action off any serve, is an unearned error point for the service team's opponent. It is enough that a team loses a point and the scoring advantages of the serve, off the first serve. Making a bad serve on any subsequent serves, would cost the service team its scoring advantage, but any further non-competitive serve would remain neutral.

The serve, in a team net sport, should create an atmosphere of anxiety not conditions of anticipation for the service team's opponents. The competitive environment in a situation where there is offensive and defensive scoring system, requires adjustments in order for the service team to maintain its scoring advantage. The service team would have the advantage of two point aces and an optional scoring technique to offset its own penalty in service. The two point ace occurs when, off the serve, a receiving team player hits a serve

Big Let Down......Wish I hadn't bought it.
This book is a huge let down to the people it claims will benifit the most.I am currently an A ranked player on the beach and have played on all surfaces.My biggest concern was to improve the skills that I have. This book claims that it assumes the reader already knows how to pass, set,and hit.What it should say is that it assumes that you JUST learned howto pass, set, and hit.The problem is that anyone who has played beachvolleyball knows the general ideas of beach play.In this book all hetalks about is the general aspects of the game.For example, I wanted toimprove my ability to read a hitter.The book simply states that in orderto improve your reading ability you must practice reading players.Well,this is not any new ground breaking news to anyone who knows what"reading" a hitter is.Every statement he makes in this book isa "no-brainer."All volleyball players know these statements hemakes.This book could be wrote just likethis:

Hitting--------Practice

Setting--------Practice

Digging--------Practice

(nothingnew here........very disappointing book)If you look to improve your gamecheck out: "Beach Volleyball" By Karch Kiraly is a much betterbook that can help you move to a new level.It has many drills and canhelp you find your mistake areas.......unlike this book.

A MUST HAVE FOR TWO ON TWO VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS!!!
This is a bare-bones simplified bible for the two on two player. No excessive text, just the straight up on advanced fundamentals, techniques and strategy, along with summarized key phrases covering each element ofthe game at the end of each chapter for easy memorization. I keep mine inmy backpack daily (along with my ball), to reread whenever I get thechance! ... Read more