Re: Striking competition results

["Lesh, Kathryn" <leshk union edu>]

Totally agree that Austin did a phenomenal job of leadership. Lucky us!
Kathryn



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Dr. Kathryn Lesh
Research Professor of Mathematics
Union College
leshk union edu


On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 2:23 PM Abigail Timmel via Boston-change-ringers <
boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Our team (the Red Sox Headstocks) won the Trinity striking competition 
> last
> weekend!  The shield will be displayed somewhere in Advent starting Wed.
>
> The judge, Simon Linford, gave some good feedback.  He said our team 
> seemed
> "intent on not hitting each other" especially with the "One Two
> Three Four".  He acknowledged this as a good strategy, though it made the
> ringing sound a bit labored and sacrificed some of the music of the back
> bells.  He said our approach and use of practice time was very
> professional, so shoutout to Austin for great team leadership!  To 
> compare,
> we were 7 faults ahead of the DC band, who Simon said "rang at battle
> speed" but "slipped on a banana peel" partway through.  NY came in third,
> 26.5 faults behind us, and Smith came in last though we were all proud of
> their performance as a team who's average experience was a couple of 
> years.
>
> One of the great benefits of the striking competition is an incentive to
> focus on our striking, which we've done some great work at even outside 
> of
> the competition band!  Simon offered advice to talk to each other about
> striking, and that comments are a positive thing that demonstrate belief
> that a ringer can improve.  Hopefully we can keep up the improvement and
> strive for some healthy discourse!
>
> Abby
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