Drive Team Chemistry

[lark95]

Originally Posted by K-Dawg157

As the operator of our robot for the past two years, I find that chemistry is very key.

Instead of having us drive separately, he told us to pair up with someone we work best with, and then choose who would drive and who would operate. This helped us to make sure that we could communicate properly, and have good chemistry between us. Anyone who wanted to try got to choose 2 partners, to tryout 2 times. There was then a final team that worked well and still got the job done.

Trust is a huge part of drive team as well.

You hit the nail on the head with these. Primary/secondary Driver/operator, whatever you want to call them must work well together, and trust, trust is very important. if a driver cant listen to a coach and trust what he is saying, and a coach cant trust a driver to do what is right in a situation, a drive team will fall apart.