Practice tool
Rebuttal drill
Draw an argument. Speak your answer out loud before the timer ends: signpost, respond, explain the impact, weigh. Then reveal three coached responses and compare.
The tool
1:00
The four moves
Every strong response does the same four things: says where it is on the flow, makes a response that does damage, explains what the response means for the argument, and weighs what is left. The full explanation.
Make it harder
Drop to forty-five seconds once sixty feels easy. Then answer two arguments in ninety. Then do it standing, in front of a partner who flows you. That is a 1AR.