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Re: Mentors as Drive Coaches?

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 View Post



HOWEVER, knowing something is one thing, executing it is another. At the Cal Games 2011 competition, I was both a driver, and the coach (never at the same time). Looking back, I was a HORRIBLE coach. I'm not saying this as a generalization to all student coaches, but I was bad. I gave bad directions, didn't comprehend what was happening at times, and didn't have the maturity or driver respect to pull off a strategy.
Much of this depends on training and learning. I wasn't stellar, and I'm still not great. Some of it depends on your Drive Team. If none of you respect each other, it won't work out. Luckily, I get along really well with our Drive Team both this year and last. I made bad calls, heck, I sent a mini-bot up the wrong tower because I didn't realize the other team had already done so and made a qucik decision to deploy on the tower we were closest to. Thhe result: a nice blob of smoking metal. The point is, we learn. What 1126 does is not the only way to do it, nor is the way you do it on 256. There is more than just "mentor or student." If anyone cares to correct me on this, please do so but I don't think anyone would be a great coach their first time doing it.
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