Well if you ever have any questions conserning how one responds or behaves in higher protocol setting that adressess a specific senario I would be more than happy to elucidate what I was tuaght and as with all things I would encourage you to adopt only what you find of use for yourself and discard the rest at your liesure.

Most of my training in the group I was initially involved with revolved around being respectful "respect was everything" of ones status in general of ones teachers, of each other and of one's self. One also had to be disiplined in ones desires and actions as well as the self cultivation of patience...and most importantly being highly adaptable to changing situations so that if one ever left the group one would still be a desireable commodity to others, especially so to those who had earned their leathers the "old way" amongst the community. Unfortunately a lot of this has went to the wayside or been lost with the internet.

For instance, one dominant may prefer a girl to count out his strokes as they are recieved without being prompted with a series of formal verbal responces...(like One, Thank you Sir! Two, Thank You Sir, or "One, Girl is sorry please forgive her Sir" etc (while being punnished for an infraction), where as another in the same group would expect the same girl once released by the other dominant when summoned to remain silent at all times while being used by him unless asked a direct question or given permission to speak. Sometimes they would even change up what was expected of one at a whim if they chose, especially when one was still in training, but also on occassion later to "remind" one to stay sharp.

There was none of this talk you see online about how if a girl is trainned by one dom she would be useless and have to relearn everything for another becuase we were all trainned specifically to adapt as nessesary to any situation and to do it quickly, lest the whip show us the error of our ways. And god help the girl who misbehaved on purpose seeking attention.

One was tuaght that everything you did was seen as a reflection of the one who held dominion over you, or as when in the presence of a guest at the house, a reflection of the House itself or when one was in training upon the submissive who mentored and for the most part was directly responsible for your training, in fact, often times that mentor may find herself on her knees being punnished right along side you for your having commited an infraction. Then later she would punnish you again in private herself.

One had to be smart, attentive and highly intuitive to anticipate the desires of those one served in any setting.

Praise was generally not given directly to one eaither but to one's imediate superior or in the case of those of us who were collared to the owner.

Though in general for the most part there was a lot of consistancy in a lot of areas within one's group.

Like one could expect a submissive too always give way if encountering a fellow submissive of higher status and or kneel if unburdened or if appropriate to the situation when encountering a dominant (while on the groups common grounds the only reason one wouldnt kneel was if there was a good reason, like an injury or one was under a modality as a human animal ~pony play was in vouge in this paticular group as well as other forms of temporary human animal play~ and one was not expected in those situations to break the disipline one had allready been asigned until told to specifically.

Outside amongst the uninitated one of course naturally curbed any overt displays of the art to maintain the secrecy of the house.