Re: Striking competition results

[Abigail Timmel <abigailtimmel gmail com>]

(Slight correction, NY was 33.5 faults below us.  I had the score
differences from DC and forgot to add them together.)

Abby

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 2:27 PM Lesh, Kathryn <leshk union edu> wrote:

> Totally agree that Austin did a phenomenal job of leadership. Lucky us!
> Kathryn
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> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 2:23 PM Abigail Timmel via Boston-change-ringers <
> boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
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>> 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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