Ringing A Method

   Once the basic skills of dodging and hunting (plus whatever other exercises seem appropriate) are mastered they can be put together into a method. Plain Bob will exercise the leading, hunting and dodging skills. St. Clements and St. Simons will exercise the turning round in 3rds skills. Other methods should be used to try other skills.

   Whatever methods are used the emphasis should be on the learner becoming "self sufficient" as far as his need to see where bells such as the Treble are. A ringer who must see where the Treble is in order to know what his next dodge is is a liability and ringers who have been taught to ring this way have been badly taught. The use of the simulator to get learners to remember where they are, because the opportunity to see the Treble is absent, should be very useful in producing reliable ringers.

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