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Unread 24-03-2004, 16:31
Lisa Rodriguez Lisa Rodriguez is offline
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Re: Pressure on Drive Team

Drive team is a job under pressure, in fact that's one of our team's requirements to be on drive team, you have to deal with pressure, we test this on thursday and friday (usually mostly thursday) same with human player, anyone can try, we will narrow it down at our facility, and then put you under pressure and see how it goes.
One thing about our team, is that this year, we started having committees and drive team was one of them. Suddenly, our mentor of the committee says that kids on build cannot be on drive. The mentor, who knows little about actually driving (he actually DID say this, and admits he just wants to be the person there when we drive) thinks that this is a most excellent idea. I personally, being the coach, got to do both, because i don't actually DRIVE the robot, and i get to split my time (even though they often are NOT during the same time) I disagreed with our adult, and explained my reasoning to him, yet he did not seem to understand my points and simply warded off my opinion.
Now, 3/4 of our drive team knows next to nothing about the robot, although we are teaching them, and this scares me. Drive should know a LOT about their robot and how it works, how else can they make simple repairs without freaking out needing engineers? (not that there is anything wrong with needing engineers, but we don't have any onstage)
Also, a bunch of the adults on our team puts pressure on the drive team to do well, and strategy and things like that. My drivers have some experience, but are constantly worried about pleasing everyone the entire time (i'm trying to stop that). We got to such a point between kids and adults telling us what to do (mostly the same thing, like when we did one thing wrong in a match, it was like EVERYONE needed to tell us 3xs) where we had to make everyone go through our drive team adult mentor so that all 30 people in the stands were not telling us the same thing. People often also put pressure indirectly on the drive team, making jokes that they take way to seriously (i'm trying to stop them from thinking too much, but they do) I try to explain to my team to come to ME when things go wrong, but sometimes they just don't listen.
Pressure is mounted on drive team. The only thing many drivers need to know is to listen to the coach, they will tell them what they need to do.

(btw--126, you guys have AWESOME strategy, you made us get as far as we did @ UTC, you guys ROCK)
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