Here at Tulloch we have just run our first training course.

View from Tulloch Ringing Centre

Presented with 8 people all keen to learn  bob doubles, we needed an imaginative approach to give them all enough rope time…here it is…..Put a  tutor on one bell, tell everyone else to catch hold of a bell. Their aim is to strike their bell absolutely with mine while I ring an imagined plain course of bob doubles from the 2.

Ringing at Tulloch

In this way we had 8 novices all reciting whilst ringing ‘ quick to lead, steady to stay at lead, slow
into 2nds, slow into 3rds, slow into 4th ’s, slow into 5th over the treble, steady to stay in 5ths,  quick to 4ths, quick to 3rds, slow back to 4ths, quick into 3rds over the treble, quick into 2nds etc

When leading the firing, I slightly exaggerate the speed changes – because if they can ring extra slow for the slows and extra quick for the quicks when firing, then they should manage the normal speed changes in with everyone else when ringing ‘properly’.
I found interchanging Firing bob doubles with watching it, Firing it, watching it, by the time they had their go for real their bell control was automatic!
And this method has just been put to good use by local Tulloch band to learn St Simon’s.