Demo Speech Self-Eval

After looking over my demonstration speech of the different pitching positions and pitch types, I thought it went well. I showed strong points within my speech, but there are some things I need to work on for further speeches.

Baseball is a very subjective sport; many either love it or hate it. I, personally, have a great passion for the game and everything about it. One thing I should've done better was to somehow incorporate the audience into my speech and make it less boring. Also, I could've done a better job explaining things baseball-related, even though it would've been difficult to do with the five-minute time limit.

Some strengths I possessed included posture, physical demonstration, voice projection, and eye contact. I am often told that I'm not a quiet person, so voice volume was the least of my worries going in. I played baseball for at least fourteen years, and I'm a freshman baseball coach and assistant pitching coach. The physical demonstration was textbook as to how pitching is taught to young players and old. As far as the visual aid was concerned, I used all the necessary items needed to do this presentation.

If I could do another speech, I think I would choose something more relevant to the whole group that I'm presenting to. This would've been very appropriate to show to a group of baseball players or coaches, but it wasn't as effective in this setting. I guess it was just something that I felt I could do a good job as far as the presentation goes. I would also try to project more enthusiastic energy to try to light up the room.

If I had to specifically perform another speech on the same topic, I might make sure it can be done outside and ask a person from the audience to catch the ball. This would have maybe gotten the audience more excited about the topic.

All in all though, I think it went well.