Motivation to Cheer

The most familiar type of public speaking that comes to mind would be a motivational speech. Motivational speeches first come to mind since I have spent many years on different sports teams, acting as a speaker and an audience. Personally, an example of this would be before my cheerleading team performs at a competition. Over the years, my team has become a family and we have certain traditions that we do every time before we perform. At the end of our traditions, we all circle up with the seniors in the center and our captains and seniors always give the team a motivational speech. This is an example of public speaking because there is one of a few people speaking in front of a group of people, trying to get a message across and persuade them. The speakers, the captains and seniors, are all trying to convince the audience, the rest of the team, that we are going to hit everything and that we can win. The audience is also in agreement for the majority, but some of them may question what is being said. The tone of the speech is always loud and is used to pump the team up and get us ready to perform. Although nerves may be taking over, getting pumped up will help put them aside.