Japanese Professional Volleyball Player Yuki Ishikawa: Itadaki wo Mezashite

This is the first autobiography of Yuki Ishikawa. Includes a gorgeous color front page with new photos taken in Milan! Since making his debut for the national team at the age of 18, volleyball player Yuki Ishikawa has spent the past 10 years becoming Japan's world-class ace in both name and reality. He has been one of Japan's top players since his high school days, but has had his share of disappointments on the international stage. Through these experiences, he has synchronized his own growth with that of the team, and in Paris, for the first time in half a century, he has risen to a position where he can aim for the Olympic podium, the top of the world. This book is Ishikawa's first autobiography, in which he writes about the joys, sorrows, and pleasures of his life as an athlete and as a person. It covers his encounter with volleyball, trial and error in junior high school, training as a warrior in Italy, the Olympic stage, and his appointment as captain of the Japanese national team. ...... With these turning points on the vertical axis, he writes about the present, the past, and the future, using the state of his mind, how he takes care of his body and relaxes, and his thoughts about his family and friends on the horizontal axis.

この夏、パリの舞台で、世界の頂へ挑む石川祐希の初の自叙伝――。ミラノでの撮り下ろしを含む豪華巻頭カラーぺージ付き! 18歳で代表デビューを果たして以来、10年かけて名実ともに世界に誇る日本のエースに成長したバレーボーラーの石川祐希。高校時代から日本のトップを走ってきたが、国際舞台では悔しい想いも味わってきた。そのなかで自身の成長とチームの成長がシンクロし、パリでは半世紀ぶりのオリンピックの表彰台=世界の頂を狙える位置に上り詰めてきた。本書は石川が、選手として、人として、これまでの人生の喜怒哀楽を初めて綴った自叙伝。バレーボールとの出合い、中学時代の試行錯誤、イタリアでの武者修行、オリンピックの舞台、日本代表キャプテン就任……。これらのターニングポイントを縦軸に、心の在り方、体のケアやリラックス方法、家族、仲間への想いを横軸にして、今・過去・未来を綴っている。