Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor

About Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor

Like British Scholars' Pleasure, Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor has the fluid hunting work below the treble disrupted by the 5ths place Half Lead. Above the treble Woodcock's Victory incorporates the maximum amount of Plain Hunting.

4ths place bell is the pivot bell and with the 6ths place lead end, the calling sequence is Out, Home, 4ths, In, Wrong.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 36 X 16 X 12 X 16 X 14 X 56, 16, Bob 14, Single 1456.

Grid:

Diagram: Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, plain lead, change-rows and grid.

Plain Course structure
The numerous hunting blocks combined with a disruption of the natural coursing order make for a tricky method.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.

Ringing by structure

DO NOT learn the lines, learn the structure, ring, make mistakes and learn from them. Track-the Treble skills, Place Notation skills, coursing order skills can all be developed in this manner

Performance Level

If you are wishing to achieve 720s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the structural ringing as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some performances .

Method Mastery Level

It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve mastery in a method like Woodcock's Victory.

Learning Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor.

The Structure

This method combines the hunting boxes when the treble dodges (as per Cambridge S.) with the pure hunting at the cross-sections. Half Lead dodges give some welcome disruption of the hunting work.

The Rules

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor - the rules
There is no simple rule statement for Woodcock's Victory.

Double Blue Lines

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 1-2.

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 3-4.

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

The half lead is almost but not quite as per Double Bob, but the coursing pair does NOT dodge in parallel.

Place Notation and Grid

The pictorial grid emphasises the structure of the method better than the Place Notation.

Ringing Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor.

Track the treble

Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods, and is valuable in ringing Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor is highly fluid, extensive practice is needed if this is the first Chadkirk Group method to be learned.

Place Notation Elements

The method contains 6 elements (X, 12, 14, 16, 36, 56), all of which will already have been rung.

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Staging posts

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when the pair dodges together in 3-4 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 1-2 at the Half Lead.

Awareness of other bells

Most ringers on encountering Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob find it quite tricky to ring well, at least to begin with, and have little spare mental capacity for considering other bells.

Coursing Order in Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor

Woodcock's Victory exhibits natural coursing order at the Lead End. An experienced ringer will pick out the parts that are valuable to them, others should concentrate on features that are more helpful. Be very careful about the tricksy half lead.

Ringing the Method

Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor makes good use of the skill of following the treble as a guide to the structural elements (Place Notation elements).

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs replace the 6ths place at the Lead End with 4ths. This causes the bell that has just made 3rds to make the bob, make thirds once more.

Singles Singles are rarely used in British Scholars' Pleasure Treble Bob Minor.

Touches of Woodcock's Victory Treble Bob Minor.

4ths place bell is the pivot bell, and hence the first lead end is 156342 giving calling positions from the tenor as:
Out, Wrong, In, 4ths, Home.

Touches of Double Court Bob Minor work for Woodcock's Victory.