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cabry

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Apr 8, 2005, 12:36:38 PM4/8/05
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Hi
Me and my friends are putting on a show and I was wondering if anyone has
a good pattern we could try?
Thanks
Marc Cabry


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Richard

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Apr 8, 2005, 1:55:26 PM4/8/05
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cabry wrote:
> Hi
> Me and my friends are putting on a show and I was wondering if
anyone has
> a good pattern we could try?
> Thanks
> Marc Cabry
>

It might help if you said how many of you there are, and what level of
skill you're at.

There's a cool 4 person pattern called the shooting star that I
remember from years ago. It's basically a 5 point star with 4 people
and less than 12 clubs. Each person runs around filling in for the
"point" on the star that's missing. I remember when I used to be very
active here 10-12 years ago, this pattern was discussed here on
rec.juggling. For more detail, use groups.google.com to search through
the really old rec.juggling posts for "shooting star". I'm sure those
old posts explain it much better than I could.

-Richard

Guy G

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Apr 9, 2005, 9:45:53 AM4/9/05
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The best pattern I've learnt recently is called "parsnip" (apparantly).
It looks really fast and frenzied, but it's quite easy. It's a 5 club
pattern for 2 people, and you both do pass-pass-feed (feed to the other
hand that is). You pass out of phase with each other and you pass flats
so you need to stand fairly close to one another. One person passes
tramlines, the other passes across. The start is a little tricky, and
I've only done it on one occasion, so I can't help you there, but it
would probably be quite good as a brief trick in a show because when
you're watching it you can't tell what's going on.
Guy

Aidan

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Apr 9, 2005, 5:18:09 PM4/9/05
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There are some multi person patterns on my page:
http://www.geocities.com/aidanjburns/passing
Another great resource is:
http://www.passingdb.com
HTH
Aidan.

adremeaux

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Apr 9, 2005, 6:35:32 PM4/9/05
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The University of Rochester juggling club (which next year will be my
club ;) puts on a show every year and we always include an act of all
just passing patterns. In fact, its pretty much all we do at meetings
as well (pass, that is). There is a TON of multi-person patterns that
look great on stage, especially for non-jugglers. Remember that
non-jugglers cannot tell the difference between 2-count, 3-count, and
especially that pass-pass-feed pattern that someone else mentioned.
Good patterns for the stage are big, visual patterns, with people
standing in different places and positions and hopefully people moving
as well. Here are the patterns we did in our most recent show (only a
week ago now). Hopefully I will be able to post a video soon. I'll
detail each pattern below.

Dallas Deal
6 Person Feed
6 Person 4-2 pattern (no real name for this one)
5 Person star
a-b-a-b (hah no name again)
3 Person triangle
4 Person Y and Moving Y
3 Person Line
4 Person Line (add one to the back while pattern is still going)
4 Person Line + 1 club
4 Person Line + 2 clubs
4 Person Line variation (one person laying on his back)
Weave
Moving N

Alright here are some details. You'll notice that many of the patterns
are simply 4 count with different position/movement.

Dallas Deal: Your basic big pattern. Can have as many people as you
want, and can be any count as well. Put X people in a circle, as so:

A

B C

D E

Each succesive beat, each person passes to the next person on their
right, and when they get to themselves they do a self. That is, if we
begin with D passing to B, next beat D will pass to A, then next to C,
then to E, then a self, and we are back to the beginning. You always
recieve from who you pass from. As long as you start corrent, the
pattern will work. One person needs to start with a self, and you work
outward from there: if A is the self, B and C pass, as to D and E.


6 Person Feed:
A basic feed with 6 people.

A
B
C
D
E
F

A and F do 4-count to B and E, respectively. B feeds A/C, C feeds B/D,
etc.


6 Person 4-2 pattern (no real name for this one):
C
A D
B E
F

A and B are doing a machine gun feed (that is, A feeds C-D-E-D repeat).
C and F do 8-count to A and B, respectively. D and E have kind of weird
jobs. D passes B-A-self-A. E does self-B-A-B.


5 Person star
Another basic pattern that can be "grown" to more people.
A
B C
D E
Easiest is to pass two to your right and recieve two from your left. A
passes to D and recieves from E.

a-b-a-b (hah no name again)
4 people in a line, facing as such:
A-> B-> <-C <-D
A and C pass 4-count (or whatever), B and D pass the same. They are
passing around each other. 'Nuff said.


3 Person triangle
A Pass right recieve left, or however you want :)

B C

4 Person Y and Moving Y
Moving Y is a great pattern, and pretty easy.

C
A B
D

There are two discreet groups for this pattern: A&B, C&D. A ALWAYS
passes to D and recieves from C. As such, D recieves from A, passes to
B. B from D, to C. C from B, to A. The movement part is what makes
it interesting. In a 6-count, right after the pass, each group spins
anti-clockwise around itself, as such

beat 2:
B
C D
A

beat 3:
D
B A
C

beat 4:
A
D C
B

3 Person Line
A-> B-> <-C

B does dropbacks to A, A passes to C, C passes to A.

4 Person Line (add one to the back while pattern is still going)
Add to the back of previous
D-> A-> B-> <-C
Now A backdrops to D, D passes to C.


4 Person Line + 1 club
4 Person Line + 2 clubs
Same, just add clubs.


4 Person Line variation (one person laying on his back)
B lays on his back, facing A. C has to pretty much drop his passes into
A's hand.

Weave
B
C A
D
This one is a bit difficult to describe, and I think would work best if
you "figure it out" from the description I give.
A does machine gun (D-C-B-C...)
B/C/D and doing 6-count, while "weaving" around each other. D begins
the pattern by passing and then stepping back around C into the middle
position. After C's pass, (the next pass), he steps forward and around
D to the bottom position. D is now in the middle approaching the top,
this time from the front. B steps back around D into the middle
position. Basically, each person is doing a figure 8 pattern around the
others. Walk it out first, and then go for it. We did this with A (the
gunner) and a fifth juggler, E, doing walkarounds with each other while
gunning the weave. It was sweet ;)


Moving N
This one is also complex and im getting a little sick of writing this
out ;)
C D

A B

4 person feed, where C and B are feeding. After a pass, A and D run to
the outside of the person that was feeding them, and FEEDERS SWITCH. If
done continuously, each person ends up doing (excluding left hand, all
passes) Left, Middle, Right, Run. Left hands are still selves.

Hope that helps some.

-andy

gingernutz

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Excelllent !
Wish I'd had this 15 years ago.
rgds

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