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