Academic Decathlon Speech - Gold Medal - 989/1000

This is a video of myself giving my speech at the Indiana State Academic Decathlon Competition. This is during the speech showcase. I received a gold medal on it and our team got overall winner in speech.

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• Decathlon
• speech
• band

[thebearsareafterme]

holy shit! I'm also in decathlon and marching band. What instrument do you play?

[thekevster08]

@thebearsareafterme well, i played marimba for 2 years, tenor drum for a year, clarinet for 2 years, then clarinet + bassoon for a year. I was trying to get drum major so was trying to do a little bit of everything, but i wound up getting beat by the best drum major our school had in the 10 years i had followed the band. 

[mexifrida]

how hard is it to do the speech? this is my first year, and i'm not exaclly very comfortable in front of an audience.

[thekevster08]

@mexifrida

its really not that hard. I'm actually a pretty shy person, I just practiced it enough to know it backwards and forwards. The hardest part is writing a speech about something that you are actually passionate about. After that, delivering it is easy!

And that was my first year too. You'll do fine if you just set your mind to it.

[later66]

where was this and what division. states or regionals?

i got a 930 in my speech in states yesterday, it was on hockey, i got gold for it. Nobody got above a 950 in our subjectives, including La Salle Collegiate McDowell and Slippery Rock as far as I know. Although maybe someone did in honors large school.

[thekevster08]

indiana small school state

[iloveuall93]

wow dude dont be a little faggot do u know how hard this guy worked? i bet hes gonna get laid before u

maybe not by a hot girl, or maybe not even a girl

but still

[advenger32]

damn, our scrimmage is on december 11 and its getting overwhelming. we are reading the grapes of wrath. did you have to read it?

[SleepwithMusic]

can anybody give me advice. i need help. i need a speech before the end of january

[YLFRV333]

I got a silver medal at my scrimmage last Friday. I scored a 966 (: My friend got gold and she scored 970, so close!

[YLFRV333]

@advenger32 I read that last year too :D

[bounty657]

Your beast man

[thebearsareafterme]

@thekevster08 thanks for replying. great speech btw. You're definitely right about band taking an immense amount of time and effort. But in the end, the ecstatic feeling that comes over you while playing on the field makes everything worthwhile.

[Rty102]

nice speech. hopefully i can come up with a good one for california's states. >< So much competition.