by Isaiah McPeak | Mar 12, 2011 | Coaching, Featured
Congratulations to Dan Pugh, who just won the National Parliamentary Debate Association’s (NPDA) Novice Nationals!! Dan wrote briefs for Ethos the previous two years and was coached by Isaiah in the Vector Debate Club for three years, where Dan spent 2008/9 and...
by Isaiah McPeak | Feb 15, 2011 | Coaching, Featured, Strategy, Video
Ethos author Drew Chambers (and partner Katie Bode) paired off against fellow Vector team Chloe Lorence and Rachell Smith in semifinals at last week’s Region IX tournament. Drew and Katie went on to win the tournament (their second tournament win in three...
by Isaiah McPeak | Feb 7, 2011 | Coaching, Guest Posts
This is a Guest Post by Dr. James Tallmon, Director of Debate at Patrick Henry College where he is also the Professor of Rhetoric. Dr. Tallmon has been an active contributor to homeschool debate, coaching several club meetings at Vector, VA, providing judging at many...
by Bronson Bast | Jan 11, 2011 | Coaching
Nothing is more amusing or humiliating in a debate round. The first negative speaker has made an epic attack on the case, the round seems to be going decidedly negative even before the dreaded Block. Then suddenly, It happens. No one meant for it to happen, but I...
by Patrick S | Jan 8, 2011 | Coaching
The more things change, the more you realize that some things don’t. I was looking at my bookshelf today when I noticed something I’d been neglecting. See, a long time ago, before I was in the NCFCA/Stoa debate circles, I took a debate class with the local...
by Zack Voell | Dec 20, 2010 | Coaching
At long last, Holiday break has arrived. Along with it comes the ability to sleep whenever we want to, forget about homework and tests, and…snow (unless you live in Hawaii :-/ ). Debate, however, will unfortunately intrude into you’re relaxing break and you should...
