They’re made of wood, so you can carry them on the gym. When you don’t have them, you can improvise using those higher steps on the gymnasium that take you to the aisles – that’s why I said you could try at your school or at some community center. It’s good exercise, but you must be supervised by a pro.

Old points system, probably. The old rules were great, they allowed any team to make a comeback when it seemed impossible. The rules were changed in 1998 mainly because of TV.

Raylight, as far as I understood it is not about climbing but jumping on high stairs.

Henrique could clarify this one as he would know I reckon.

Climbing on stairs is very useful to build strength in the quads and the glutens, but you need to skip half of the steps in the stair, to put the pressure only on the leading foot / one leg to lift you / and to step on your heels to protect the knees/. I climb stairs that way.

Thanks for the reply Henrique!

That's why I wrote it here because I believe it is vital to start with reception! Unfortunately I dont think this is the case in Bulgaria.

Honestly I have no idea how the training is done in Bulgaria as I never trained volleyball though I am tall and may be could have had a go. What this friend of mine explained to me is that these staircases are not like the normal ones but have higher steps unless I misunderstood something.

BTW he said he trained together with 2 of the guys who got the gold medals at 1992 Olympics. And the thing that blew me away was that once they (he and friend of his) won a beach volleyball match when they were losing 6:14 in the 3rd set. Finally they finished 16:14!

You start with that. They teach the basics and you need to show some ball control. It’s unacceptable that a vball athlete becomes pro without some basic skills.

This is really good to improve your vertical. Don’t you do that in Bulgaria? You can do this training at your school gymnasium or at some community center.

You had a great chat that I missed guys

1. Baboun thank you for clarifying what the final piece of music is.

2. I keep repeating that is a huge mistake and invaluable loss that players less than 2m are not given any chance in Bulgaria.

3. Skrimov is one of my favourites because he is not only clever but he has a zeal and passion and this just adds colour to the game in a very exciting way.

4. All polish, brazilians etc. fans are very welcome to Bulgaria for the final 6 of the WL. We are very hospitable nation and foreigners are treated with great respect especially by the real volleyball fans.

5. Henrique, I wish I could copy all your matches from the past to my external hard disk

6. I met an old (Dutch) friend yesterday who grew up in Brazil and who trained volleyball when he was a teenager. I must say I am amazed by the system they have over there. Coaches go to almost all schools to pick talanted kids. Then they give them scholarships, collect them from homes after school and bring them for training. Reception is the element they pay more attention to without disregarding any other element. 12 km running twice a week + gym + learning of all the technics, matches every weekend and this starts at the age of 13 - very, very intense. The one thing that sounded interesting to me is that they do jumping on staircases with high steps to build up stronger back thigh muscles.

I agree with you, Raylight, but unfortunately we don't make the rules. :-(

@Pearl: ;-)

I think this stuff with copyrights in volleyball is stupid, no one offers them legally, so there is no justice in blocking other people from showing them

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Grazie amico mio, very kind of you Comunque mi chiamo Mara, non Perla ...Pearl è solo il mio nick ahah Non ho ancora capito come si inseriscono i quote...troppo spumante temo

Perla, ti darò la mia lista, allora si può scegliere quello che vuoi – mio regalo di Capodanno. Ho alcuni filmati rari.

Raylight, due to copyrights I can’t upload many of those matches. There are some that I tried to find for several years.

Grazie

Pearl, ti manderò un messaggio in privato, allora si può vedere come farlo. È più facile.

@HCLT: Henrique scusa, ma come fai ad inserire i "quote" all'interno dei tuoi commenti?? Io non ho ancora capito come fare??

raylight you don't have to shout to be rude

HCLT: i'm not jealous...but i'm a little bit sad 'cause i lost that "little treasure" that i had BTW, since you've got many videos about Karch, maybe you could upload some of them (or work with raylight - as good friends do - to upload 'em here)...please...per favore, per favore, dài

I've seen very,very,very little of Kiraly and even I can say the guy is outstanding Considered by many,the best of all times,praised for his character and leadership just as much as for his amazing abilities on the court.I wish there was more about him here,on Youtube or wherever...

Pearl, I don’t wanna make you jealous, but I have probably 30 or 40 Karch Kiraly’s matches. :-p

Henrique, in Brazil you have money in volleyball, we can figure something, some site with these videos, sponsor, links, profitable business

No, ray i've got nothing sorry Not anymore, at least!! I had some matches of him when playing in Messaggero (we're talking of almost 20 years ago...gosh ), but they were in old VHS and became all demagnetized now (don't know if the word "demagnetized" is correct...anyway they're unusuable )!! That's the reason why, a few months ago, i asked you if you could upload matches from italian clubs of '90s

actually, that's true, Radostin is usually very polite to journalists. he was very polite when he came to Zalau