|
Re: Stress
Hi everyone, this will be my first reply. so here i go. now i know that most high ranked and average teams tend to have driver teams, which all they do to my knowledge is drive the robot. i know this thread is about stress and how it affects the driving team and how to reduce it. well i started about four years ago and have been in robotics ever since. most people would call me a natural non-stress kind of guy. now stress can be caused by many things. my theory on how stress is caused is through the human not knowing the future and the general unknown. this may sound weird but for me it tends to be correct. most people stress over what a test might be like or contain. in this example most drivers will stress over the unknown of what the next match will be, how the robot will drive, or if the robot will even work. for me most of these ideas run through my mind minutes and even hours before a match, but normally i am one who does not show it. now i will talk about how i think stress can reduced. in my cases the more i know about the robot the better i fell. my team consist of up to at any given time five to seven people. so naturally there are no divisions of teams. i am the current robotics president which also entitles my to the lead designer and auto cad (maker). so when during the build system i know everything about the robot. this tends to help me because i know how the robot will 1.) work and react to certain things and 2.) that the robot will work and hopefully not break. since i worked and built most of the robot i have no real fear of the robot working because i know my work is valid and i tend to not make mistakes. so my solution to whoever is on the drive team is to try and get as much involved on the robot than most people. this will help because you are the one who will be driving the robot in the end. the more you know about the robot the better prepared you will be for competition. in my case this solution tends to reduce stress on me and my fellow drivers. hope this tid bit helps.
|