Before I joined “Chinese Debate” Zhixing, I have never been a official debater, but I indeed debate a lot with my friends on many social and philosophical issues.
Looking back on the past three months, I could say that I have been transformed into a formal debate who can step into the contest field with full confidence of victory.
We have learned numerous debating skills in our activity time. We have been trained on the etiquette on debating, such as dress code, gestures, body movement and facial expressions, responsibilities of 4 distinctive debating positions, such as argument, disputation, inquiry and summarization and gists of making a point consecutively. We also got a chance to fully train these skills through 3 times of model debates.
What’s more, we build confidence. Skills are crucial, but more crucial is the confidence. If a debater does not possess the faith that he/she will claim victory, he/she will not. I gradually attained this pivotal capability through millions of thinking processes and small discussions on the topic of the debate before the contest actually took place. On the stage, it was just a matter of showing my best thinking I prepared. Naturally, confidence arrived.
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