Drive Team Training Drills

[Greg Leighton]

This might be a no-brainer but if you are planning on being an offensive team then aqcuiring a tube should be one of the things you practice the most (if not the most). Scoring will be mostly dependent on your robots capabilities and generally (once you are in position to score) will only take a short period of time. Aqcuiring a tube, on the other hand, will take quite a bit more time especially when you consider the following:

1. You have to avoid whatever robots may be playing defense on you

2. You will probably want to smoothly manuever into the feeder lane (i.e. not bumping into walls or the base of the tower)

3. Depending on how you aqcuire tubes there may be some finesse driving involved

The more practice you can get dealing with these conditions, the more successful your team will be this year. On a side note, its always a good idea to practice with your drivers standing and, if possible, with the drive coach behind them giving them advice. As you probably already know driving standing up and sitting down give a different feel, so you want your drivers to get comfortable in the position they will be in come game time.