Top or bottom, you should read this
Riggers: These are important skills!
As a rigger or rope Top, you need to understand how to adapt or modify your plans, and to develop a few key skills – common adaptations – that allow you to be more flexible in your approach and therefore work with a greater variety of people.
Rope Bottoms: It is important you understand these things, too!
As a rope bottom, you need to understand these common adaptations as well so you can better advocate for yourself. If you know that some given common approach does not work for you, understanding these things will help you talk with your Top about adaptations that may help to improve your experience.
Two people, a Top and a bottom, reading the same book together