performance anxiety speaking
Overcoming performance anxiety (stage fright)?
Ergh. I am in Forensics Speech and Debate at my school, and we go to tournaments every so often to compete. I’ve never had a strong opinion on public speaking, but ever since I joined up I’ve become absolutely petrified of performing–which really sucks, because I have a tournament this Saturday.
Honestly, I can’t really explain the feeling, but it’s like I’m desperate for any way I can escape talking, like even spraining my own ankle. It’s just this huge urge to run away from my tournament.
How on earth do I deal with this? I’m absolutely fed up with this awful feeling. The breathing calmly and imagining everyone in their underwear doesn’t work. :
Ok…never done an ‘official’ debate but here goes:
1. Read up on your topic (so it’s tomorrow…just try to look at the pros and cons)…find which one you believe more and support it. I did one last year for school prayer (I chose pro) and what I did was look up the cons to school prayer also and looked for a single arguement to counter that…it worked pretty well…and this way u won’t be like uhhh, ummmm, about that when they counter u or something like that.
2. If you want to study your arguement and memorize it perfectly (like I used to do), DON’T because if you have 1 interruption or forget one or two words u forget the whole speech. Uhh, to support this: Last year i was horrible at public speaking. I read online that you shouldn’t memorize debates or a speech. So for an Italian project I read my speech until I could say what I was trying too (doesn’t have to be word for word) and looked it over and spoke perfectly fine on the presentation day.
3. Tonight, yes, I said tonight, go to bed early and when u wake up eat enough so that ur a little full (I read online that girls perform best when slightly full and guys when a little hungry.
4. breathe darn it! Take deep breathes just before the speech.
5. Just think, I mean if u get up there and mutter, ramble on about something that wasn’t meant to counter an arguement or something like that, u would appear awkward and like a complete stupid person, which u prob. aren’t.
6. CONFIDANCE…stand in front of a mirror and speak, argue, yell, whatever…just feel confidant.
7. Try to have an arguement with a family member. Break your mom’s favorite vase and try to defend why u broke it…practice makes perfect…
8. And if all fails, uhhh, just imagine yourself in your own underwear and you will, yeah I said YOU, will feel just fine! It’ll be a day so don’t worry…what is it, like a few hours? Plus, you won’t see half of the people ever again, so what’s there to worry about…
Good Luck!!!…
so…how were ya planning on spraining ur ankle…car door, jumping from the top step of the stairs, hammer? Just kidding…I’m not that sadistic…
But seriously, u better beast that debate tomorrow…tell me how it goes, or at least give me best answer.
Nervousness and Public Speaking
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