After Coming Back From The LA Regional: My Thoughts On FIRST

[EricH]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

IDK if that idea really works... because when you play games, does that ever happen? One guy moves the player and the other aims and shoots? Our driver was fantastic, when our bot was working fine we got all our balls on our side into the goal. and we has 2 or 3 "coaches", and 1 driver at a time

Ask Shane, the drive coach on 330 (and the only one who didn't wear the yellow jeans), about that.

For reference, Shane and Elijah, his arm/shooter operator, won 4 regionals, 2 Championship divisions, the Championship, and 1 IRI in 4 years as a drive team. In addition, they picked up 2 regional finalists and 1 IRI finalist.

Yep, it works. It can also take a load off the driver by allowing another person to take some of his duties. The hard part is to have a drive team instead of two drivers. That can only come through practice and trust.

BTW, I was referring to 2008, which was Shane's last year as a driver. There are those who consider him one of the best drivers in FRC.