Curated Siteswaps

Siteswaps and Juggling Patterns

Preface

Knowledge acquired throughout years of practicing, playing over and over with siteswaps, trying to find pleasant/aesthetic pattern characteristics using the siteswap notation system. This is a collection of what feels good for me, without taking the difficulty to the extreme levels (e.g. 7+ balls).

I also include specialized training regimes (again what worked for me best) and other (miscellaneous) stuff like mills mess patterns, 3 ball tricks and a lot of passing patterns as well!

John Zobolas

Notes

• July 2024: Changed notation for passing patterns, I feel I am closing on a curated list for 2 and 3 person passing.
• December 2023: Changed to Quarto.
• September 2022: Changed to GitBook using bookdown.
• November 2021: I found a better name for my collection of siteswaps: curated siteswaps! This name better encapsulates my effort to find the best ones and what best exactly means. Still an ongoing process! Also finally the 5 ball siteswaps have become more stable :)
• March 2021: I have started realizing that using different colored objects to juggle is a major improvement over the unicolor culture that I was familiar with. The use of colors benefits your technique, it’s more practical for learning new tricks, shows some hidden possibilities in your juggling exploiting a visual perspective, helps to build your own style and makes your mood better by adding an extra layer of diversity. So, I highly recommend it!
• Somewhere in 2020: After 10 years of Juggling, I understood this: it’s all about the form, siteswaps especially. Also, solidity of a siteswap/pattern seems to hold a different meaning for each person but given 2 jugglers with different solidity everybody agrees to who is more solid! Lastly, 7 still is too much (balls) and I really don’t find numbers above 7 worth pursuing anymore in siteswaps (form gets loose and unaesthetic). Found more meaning in 3 and 4 ball tricks, using imagination and of course club juggling that epitomizes that.