If you can commit to attending most of the practices at your tower, you’ll soon find that the rest of the team have come to rely on you and you’ll be able to build your ringing skills together as a band.

As with most activities in life, there’s a certain amount of ‘give and take’, so even if it’s not possible to practise the skill or method that you were hoping to ring that evening, your presence will almost certainly be helping someone else to progress and that’s great news for the whole team … and ringing in general!

If your practice is well run, the person in charge will want to make sure everyone gets their ‘fair go’ and a chance to ring something of their choice, so do your homework and turn up prepared, just in case you’re invited to choose something to ring.

Ringing is a social activity and after a while, the best bands develop a strong team spirit with shared goals, they’ll be genuinely pleased when one of the members achieves something with their individual ringing as well as the team managing to ring something successfully together.

Relying on regular visitors to progress is one way to learn, but you’ve only got to look at the number of quarter peals published which are ‘rung by the Sunday Service band’ to realise that there’s nothing quite like the home team pulling off a performance together.

 

To complete this challenge, agree with your Tower Captain a reasonable target taking into account frequency of opportunities, holidays and the like.

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