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Re: Coaching Questions...
While we rotated coaches during our first regional one or two years when I was with Team 45, normally we used one coach (or set of coaches back when there were two on the field) as does my present team. To me, having the same drive team, including coach, is the best way to evolve into a well functioning unit.
This year at Team 233 we had a little different arrangement in that I was basically the "pre-competition coach," while Andy Bradley is the field coach. My job was to help prospective drivers and operators build their skills using last year's robot, and to encourage some "friendly competition" within our group. Also, with some input from other team members, it was my job to test and select our drivers and human players. Meanwhile, Andy was busy with programming.
While I had some reservations about picking a drive team and then "turning them over" to Andy, things seem to be working out for us, and I think what we did makes sense. The field coach needs to be a good strategist and, very importantly, a good communicator. That is an area where Andy is better than I am. In my function of turning video game expects into robot operators, my knowledge of how our sometimes quirky robots behave, along with my being a fairly good driver/operator myself, seemed to be useful.
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Team 45, TechnoKats, 1996-2002
Team 1062, The Storm, 2003
Team 233, "The Pink Team," 2004-present
The views I express here are mine, and mine alone, not those of my team, FIRST, or my previous teams.
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