Passing

Passing patterns! Yay!

Manipulation patterns

Intercepts (I), substitutions (S), carries (C), and so on…

3 people

• 4-count Roundabouts
  • Mini Chopabout No. 1 - Simon
  • Chopabout
  • Slapabout
  • Ronjabout
  • Jim’s 4-count Roundabout
  • Pop-about
    • M (2 clubs): C (to B) + S (to B), get the pop => A
    • A (2 clubs): 333p(gets substituted)333 => B
    • B (3 clubs): p333p33pop => M
• 3-count Roundabouts
  • 3-count Roundabout (Nickie’s version)
  • Catch the carrot - based on Jim’s 3-count
• PPS Roundabouts
  • Phoenician Waltz
  • MinuEd
  • Dolby 5.1 (5-count based)
  • ChampV (ppsps, all chops thrown from the same side - north wall pattern)
• Why-not Abouts
  • What’s that about (2014) - 4 gets intercepted
  • Australian version - notation - a pass gets intercepted
• Shorty

4+ people

• Scrambled-V
  • Variations: 3,B,Toast,Zig-Zag
  • Scrambled-3V combo: 2 manipulators
  • Kennedy: 4-count Roundabout + 2 manipulators, helicopter version
  • Ambled-V: +1 club, double passes
• Cambled-V
  • Ambled-V variation
  • All start right-handed at the same time!
  • Feeder passes left-handed!
  • All passes are crossed!

2 person passing

Non-manipulation, non-moving patterns for 2 jugglers :)

Notation

• “z” => zip (1)
• “f” => flip (2)
• “s” => self (3)
• “p” => single pass
• “d” => double pass
• “||” => straight pass
• “X” => cross pass
• “1|2” => start with 1 club on the left hand and 2 on the right
• “J1” => Juggler 1, “J2” => Juggler 2
• J1 does straight passes (||) and starts first (unless otherwise indicated)

Zaps

Workshop collection

• 522 (zap,zip,zip), 552 (zap,zip,zap)
• 646455 (self,self,zap vs zap)
• zap intro - 56464 (both: self,self,zap) - 5 is magic
• 56662 - 5 is magic
• 645 (Killer Bunny - answer zap with self,zap)
  • 64555 (Funky magazine rack)
• 5 (1-count with zaps)
  • zaps (X) vs tomahawks (||)
  • zaps (||) vs bxxs (d,X)
• 7a224 - single passes as zaps, and 5’s as double selfs!
• 756 family:
  • 75666 (2+3-count mix with zaps - 5 is magic)
  • 75666 vs why-not (instead of pss{zap}s do psp41)
  • 756 (Baby Dragon)
  • 75756 (2 magic 5s!)
• 85566

3-5 clubs

• 720 - (501-like)
  • J1: (0|2, ||, p-wait-1)
  • J2: (0|1, X, 1-wait-p)
• 1-count (singles)
  • p31 (726)
  • d3131 (96262)
• 41p31 (why-not)
• Parsnip (ppzpz)

6 clubs

Sync passing

• 1,2,3,4-count
  • Pyramid variations
  • 1-count singles (p,X) vs bxxs (d,X)
  • 1-count singles (p,||) vs tomahawks (d,||)
  • Jim’s 2-count - 77466
• 3-count variations
  • 3d2 (early X-double)
  • 4d1 (early X-double) - nice one, 441-ish
  • 42p, (4X)2(pX)
  • Jim’s 3-count (77466666)
• pps, ppsps (bookends)
  • pps with 2 early doubles: ppdd13-pps

Async (siteswap) passing

• Why-not - 77862
  • J1: (2|2, ||, p3p41) or (1|2, ||, p41p3)
  • J2: (1|2, X, 41p3p) or (1|2, X, p3p41)
  • Add an early double (Katia’s idea): pd241 (p => ||, d => X) - 92478, has a stack
• Maybe - 78672
  • J1: (1|2, ||, p314p)
  • J2: (1|2, X, 4pp31)
• Mild Madness - 7777266
  • J1: (1|2, ||, pp13pp3)
  • J2: (1|2, X, pp3pp13)
  • Nice to exchange {p,p} with {double,zap}
• Flip-to-Heff (2) - 85746 - ???
• 978822, 441’s
  • J1: (1|2, X, d41)
  • J2: (1|2, X, p41)
• 979722, ddz vs ppz

5-club vs 7-club patterns

• 5 club Why-not? vs 5-count Popcorn
  • J1: (1|2, ||, p3141)
  • J2: (1|2, X, 44p33)
• Parsnip vs funky bookends
  • J1: (1|2, ||, ppzpz)
  • J2: (1|2, X, p4pp3)
• 5 club 1-count vs French 3-count - 784746
  • J1: (1|2, ||, pff)
  • J2: (1|2, X, 4p3)

Hijacking

• Why-not to (popcorn, 5-club why-not) => instead of p3p41, do p33+44
• Why-not to Maybe => instead of p3p+41, do pss+4pp31

Siteswaps with single + double pass

• 972 - has a stack
  • J1: (1|2, (X,||), d1p) - don’t do the zip the first time!
  • J2: (1|2, (X,||), pd1)
• Not likely - 96672 - has a stack
  • J1: (1|2, (d => X), d313p)
  • J2: (1|2, (p => X), 3pd31)
• Flip-to-Heff - 78456 - has stack
• Odnom - 7772964 - has a stack
• Maybe not - 79662
  • J1: (1|2, (d => X), p31d3)
  • J2: (1|2, (p => X), d3p31)
• Israeli bicep curls - 97842

7 clubs

• 1-count (singles)
• 2-count (sd or sp)
• 3-count
  • Async version (doubles): dss - (J1: ||, J2: X)
  • Sync version (Techno, singles): (RH p, LH 3)(RH 3)(LH p, RH 3)(LH 3) - (J1: ||), (J2: X)
• Popcorn patterns
  • 5-count popcorn (78686) - can be 53 (triple,self) instead of 44
  • 6-count popcorn with straight double passes (44d333)
• French 3-count - 786
  • J1: (2|2, ||, p34)
  • J2: (1|2, X, 4p3)
• 7 club 3-count vs French 3-count
  • J1: (2|2, ||, p34)
  • J2: (1|2, ||, dss)
• 6 club 3-count vs Almost-French 3-count - 786966
  • J1: (2|2, ||, p33)
  • J2: (1|2, (d => ||), 4ds)
• 7 club 3-count vs stack - 979962
  • J1: (2|2, X, dd3)
  • J2: (1|2, (p => X), pd1)
  • Sync version: dd3 vs 3pd, with all doubles straight (||)
• Funky Bookends - 77786
  • J1: (2|2, ||, pp3p4)
  • J2: (1|2, X, p4pp3)
• Vitoria - 7778686
  • J1: (2|2, ||, pp33p44)
  • J2: (1|2, X, p44pp33)
• 88892 (nice with 441, but difficult!)
  • J1: (1|2, X, 4414d)
  • J2: (2|2, ||, 4d441)
• 7-club why-not - 9968926
  • J1: (2|2, X, d3d3d41)
  • J2: (1|2, ||, d41d3d3)
• 7-club maybe (1) - 9969268
• 96677 (single + double passes, bookends variation)
• Aspirin - 7966786
  • J1: (2|2, (p => ||), p3p3d34)
  • J2: (1|2, (d => ||), d34p3p3)
• 979962
  • J1: (2|2, X, dd3)
  • J2: (1|2, (p => X), pd1)
• Double BANANA - 966777777
  • J1: (2|2, (p => ||), d3ppp3ppp)
  • J2: (1|2, (d => ||), 3pppd3ppp)
• 5-count triples - b6666

8 clubs

• 996 - dds
• 2-count (ds, sync)
• 978888
  • J1: (2|2, X, d44)
  • J2: (2|2, X, s44)
• 979968
  • J1: (2|2, X, dd3)
  • J2: (2|2, (p => X), pd4)

6-handed siteswaps

The only online document on 6-handed siteswaps I know is this one. With regard to the hand-order, the aforementioned document mentions the standard (Ar-Bl-Cr-Al-Br-Cl) and the staggered (Ar-Al-Br-Bl-Cr-Cl) sequence, where A,B,C are the jugglers, and r = right hand, l = left hand. In most patterns listed below, we have tried both the standard and a new hand order (Ar-Br-Cr-Al-Bl-Cl, let’s call it all-rights-all-lefts), which made more sense to me compared to the one called staggered. In most cases (but not all!), the patterns got more irregular (harder passes) and less interesting when using different hand orders from the standard one. So, in all patterns listed below, we will use the standard hand order, unless otherwise specified.

8 clubs

• Mayday zap - a37979999, video, every juggler does something different
• Why-not with zaps (name?) - 8839c
  • Local is zap,3,zap,4,1

9 clubs

• 2-count mix - aa7999
  • Hand-order is all-rights-all-lefts
• Gare du Zap - a8999, video
  • Hand-order is all-rights-all-lefts
• Why-Not Triangle - aaac993bbbcc933, video
  • Local siteswaps: 2 x a9bc3 and 1 x b9ac3

10 clubs

• bbbcc9d3acacc93 - TO-TRY, 2 why-not feedees vs 1 feeder doing p4p44
• 10 clubs 2-count - b9

11 clubs

• 11 clubs 2-count - d9
  • 13 club version is h9!

8-handed siteswaps

• 3-count friction - fcc
• [ecd] - pps variation (TO-TRY)

Feeds and Triangles

In this section, “Feeds” and “Triangles” refer to patterns for 3 people. In feeding patterns, one person (the feeder) passes to the other two (the feedees). The feedees don’t pass to each other.

Useful notation:

• “F” => Feeder
• “LF” => Left-Feedee and “RF” => “Right-Feedee” refer to the two feedees/passers as the feeder views them
• “R” => starts right-handed, “L” => starts left-handed
• “||” => straight passes, “X” => cross passes

9 clubs

• Triangle sync counts (2,3,4-count, pps, ppsps)
• Gorilla: 1-count feeds two 2-counts
  • F: (R, ||, 1-count) - first pass to LF
  • LF: (R, ||, 2-count)
  • RF: (L, ||, 2-count) - starts on 2nd beat
• 2-count feeds two 4-counts
  • Variation: Runaround (changes feeder - base pattern for Scramble-V)
• PPS feeds two 3-counts
  • Variation: Runaround (the person who walks does a 4-count, the feeder does a 2-count with the same person that is not moving, the future feeder does sp (2-count) + psppspps…
• 1-count chocolate bar feed
  • Feeder does 1-count, 2 straight passes in one feedee, 2 in the other
  • Feedees: ppss (one starts two beats later or with ss)
• Parsnip feeds 5-count popcorn and 6-club why-not
  • F: (R, ||, ppzpz) - first pass to LF, two next to RF
  • LF: (R, X, 44p33)
    • Change to an 8-club pattern with LF: (R, X, 41p31) - starts with 2 clubs
  • RF: (R, X, p41p3)
• 1-count feast
  • All jugglers do pps out-of-phase
  • All start right-handed
• ppz feeds two french 3-counts
  • F: (R, ||, ppz) - in,in,out,out
  • LF: (R, ||, 4p3)
  • RF: (R, ||, 34p)
• ppzspps feeding two Jim’s 3-counts
  • Feeder: ||, feedees: X

10 clubs

• 3-count triangle
  • One juggler with 4 clubs, starts first with a pass
  • Crossing doubles for all
  • Passes go: A => B, B => C, C => A
  • A: pss, B: sps, C: ssp
• Gorilla
  • F: (L, 2|2, X, 1-count) - first pass to LF
  • LF: (R, ||, 2-count)
  • RF: (L, ||, 2-count)
• 2-count feeds two 4-counts with doubles
  • Variation: Runaround (when the feeder changes - base pattern for Ambled-V)
• 6-club why-not feeds two 5-count popcorns
  • F: (R, 2|2, ||, p3p41) - starts with LF
  • LF: (R, X, 44p33)
  • RF: (R, X, 3344p) or wait for feeder’s pass and do: (R, X, 44p33)
• 6-club Maybe feeds two 5-count popcorns
  • Same configuration as above pattern, RF waits 1 beat less time for feeder’s pass
• Funky bookends feeds 5-count popcorn and 6-club why-not - COLLISIONS?
  • F: (R, 2|2, ||, pp3p4) - first pass to LF, two next to RF
  • LF: (R, X, 44p33)
  • RF: (R, X, p41p3)
• 3-count feeds two 6-count popcorns
  • F: (L, 2|2, X, 3-count) - starts with LF
  • LF: (R, 1|2, ||, 44p333) - passes with right hand
  • RF: (R, 1|2, ||, 33344p) - passes with left hand
• pss feeds two french 3-counts
  • F: (R, 2|2, ||, pps)
  • LF: (R, 1|2, ||, 4p3) - start exactly the same time as F, fast single pass
  • RF: (R, 1|2, X, 34p) - start 1 beat later than F, lofty single pass

11 clubs

• 1-count feeds two 2-count with doubles
  • Proposed name: Gorilla+
  • F: (R, 2|2, ||, d) - first pass to LF, second to RF
  • LF: (R, 1|2, ||, d3) - waits 1 beat
  • RF: (L, 2|2, ||, d3) - starts with F
• 2-count feeds two 4-count popcorns with doubles
  • F: (R, 2|2, ||, ds) - first pass to LF, second to RF
  • LF: (L, 2|1, ||, 344d) or (R, 1|2, ||, 44d3) but waits 1 beat (better for some people)
  • RF: (L, 2|2, ||, 4d34) - starts with F
• PPS feeds 3-count with doubles (996 vs 2x966)
  • F: (R, 3|2, dds) - out,out,in,in, starts with 5 clubs
  • LF: (R, 1|2, X, dss)
  • RF: (R, 1|2, X, sds)

Many people patterns

• Bruno’s Nightmare (3-count version, 3 people)
  • A giant juggles 3 jugglers (2 do 6-count, one feeds in 3-count and they change roles)
• Why-not feed for 4+ people
  • Feeders do why-not
  • People at the ends do 5-count popcorn or 5-club why-not
  • Two lines of people
  • One line starts, everyone there has 4 clubs
  • Other line responds, why-not jugglers have 2 clubs, 5-count popcorn start with 3 clubs
  • If starting side does straight passes, everyone can start right-handed.
• Shooting star (4 people, 9 clubs, 4-count)
  • 5 people, pentagram positioning: A => B => C => D => E (think A is top in a diagram and the arrow shows who is “right-next-to” the previous person)
  • A, C and E start with 3 clubs (1|2), B starts with no clubs, D is phantom
  • Right-hand start for all
  • Pass to the person two to your right, i.e. A => C, C => E, E => B.
  • When A is out of clubs, runs to point D (where he/she was expecting passes from).
• Shooting star (4 people, 11 clubs, 4-count)
  • Same as above, but faster
  • B has 2 clubs now
  • A starts the run immediately after the first pass, then C moves (after 1 4-count), then E (after 2 4-counts), then B (after 3 4-counts)
• Y (4 people) (2,3,4-count)
• Weaver (4 people)
  • Feeder: 2-count and feeds like a windshield 3 people
  • Feedees: 6-count and moving as a 3-people cascade
• 3 vs 2-count (4 people)
  • Cross positioning: each 2-person group forms a line, and the two lines are perpendicular
  • 2 people do 2-count, 2 people do 3-count
  • Right-hand start for all
  • 2-count person: left, middle, middle, right, middle, middle, left, …
  • 3-count person: right, middle, left, middle, right, …
• Dropback Line
  • 3 people: A,B vs C => A passes to C, C to B, B dropbacks to A
  • 4 people: A,B vs C,D => A passes to C, C dropbacks to D, D to B, B dropbacks to A
• Star (5 people)
  • Start right-handed, everyone holding 3 clubs (1|2)
  • 1,2,3,4-count works!
• 3-count Feast (Boston circle, 5 people)
  • Pass to everyone in turn, including yourself! All passes start right-handed, then become left-handed, etc.
  • Hand-feast (nice variation, feels like Jim’s)
  • In principle, this pattern can be done with more people and different counts as well!
• 5-count Star with doubles (5 people, 16 clubs)
  • Pentagram positioning, each person passes 5-count
  • Double crossing passes for all
  • 16 clubs (one person holds 4 clubs and starts throwing in the 1st beat)
  • In each beat a different person throws a crossing double (5 beats in total)
  • Pass to the person two to your right

Minis

Clubs

Mostly side-by-side

3 clubs

• 3p0 (cascade in-hands or out-hands)
• 2p1 (cascade-ish, in-hand to out-hand)

4 clubs

• 42p11p
  • ‘4’ are all ‘alone’ (one in each juggler’s hand)
  • 2p: get it up in the air and leave it to fall
  • 1p: give it to the hand of the other juggler that does a ‘4’
  • Variation: change the roles of the two hands in each juggler and 2p becomes a front plane flat quick throw
• 2p3p12
  • ‘2p’ is the same club and goes up and down
  • ‘3p’ can be a front flat throw

5 clubs

• 413p2
  3p: front half flat from outside hand to inside hand of the other juggler, can be chest tipping (filmed with Doreen)
• 332p2
  Second 3 as chest tip, 2p as ‘reverse’ chest tip, 2 reverse active high catch (filmed with Doreen)

Balls

Mostly face-to-face

3 Balls

• 1p (|| vs x)
• 311p (|| vs x)
  • 3 person version - always straight passes to the person in your left
• 1.5p12 (423)
• 311p1 (||)

4 Balls

• 311p3p (||)
• 312 variations: 3p12,31p2,312p,…,3p1p2p!!!

5 Balls

• Partner Arm Weave Columns