by emilyerose | Oct 27, 2016 | Coaching
Steve the superb sweater salesman is constantly debating. His prospective clients can be the most vicious cross-examiners and deliver disadvantages that wreck his sales pitch. But Steve isn’t just any ‘ol sales rep. Steve has skin made of rubber. He lets these...
by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 24, 2016 | Coaching a Club, Speech Events
So what is most likely to help club members improve their speeches? The parents and students at Lone Star Christian Communicators, a speech and debate club in Austin, Isaiah was asked to give an hour talk on giving and receiving speech feedback in club. Several...
by Brennan Herring | Oct 17, 2016 | From Advanced to National-Class, Research Tips, Strategy
The season wasn’t going so well. We had been almost undefeated debating neg, but our affs had been losing rounds we felt like we should have been winning. Something was not working. We had changed cases, changed speaker positions, rewritten cases, expanded our...
by emilyerose | Oct 6, 2016 | From Novice to Intermediate, Lincoln-Douglas, Technique
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
by Isaiah McPeak | Sep 26, 2016 | Coaching, From Intermediate to Advanced, From Novice to Intermediate
At my day-job, statUP, today we completed a major product design, the coach dashboard. That means Monday is when we’ll decide what major design epic to pick up next. Choices include Athlete Profile+, Skilltrees, Goal-Tracking, Club Dashboard, Mobile App Improvements,...
by Brennan Herring | Sep 12, 2016 | Debate Rounds, Example Rounds, Briefs, and Case Studies, Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy, Technique, Video
A few days ago, Ethos Head Coach Isaiah McPeak and Ethos Coach Devin Radford tackled this year’s LD resolution for the NCFCA. It’s one of Isaiah and Devin’s first debate rounds of the season. Use it as an example of where some rounds could go…...
