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Is she a once-a-week home-tower-only ringer or does she go to other towers too? In my experience from ringing at several local towers, those ringers who never venture to other towers take years to get fluent at plain bob, let alone reach the stage when they can attempt other methods. Most of them get stuck where they are, and are still trying to ring touches of plain bob ten years later.

Motivation only sets in once you really do know what you are doing and start to gain confidence, which in turn only happens after hours and hours of rope time until plain hunt becomes as automatic as walking and you could do it in your sleep.

I came to ringing late and have always struggled with ropesight. My ropesight was so bad that the only way I could progress was not just by ringing 5 times a week for several years but also by bashing away at methods on Mobel for hours and hours on my phone and making sure that at least my rhythm was good even if my ropesight wasn’t. Using a simulator helped too. My ropesight will always remain poor, but thanks to Mobel I’m pretty good at counting places and can learn methods away from a tower. There’s no way on earth that I would ever have rung quarter peals and even a peal without such digital aids to help my learning curve.

If your learner doesn’t currently use Mobel/Abel, it might be something that could help her.

In my area, most of the towers have their own WhatsApp group and many of us belong to more than one of these groups. There’s also a WhatsApp group that covers several towers within a local area. Putting in a request on one or several of these groups usually results in enough volunteers to make up a shortfall, or even a whole band, within hours if not minutes.