Juggling in your Right Mind

By Lee Kolinsky
Last Update 1/28/2005

Table of Contents

I. Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 3
II. The Basics......................................................................................................................................3
1) 4-Count or Every-Other...............................................................................................................3
2) Shower or Every’s or 2-Count.....................................................................................................4
3) 3-Count or 1/3-Count.................................................................................................................. 5
4) Pass-Pass-Self or 2/3-Count...................................................................................................... 5
5) ThunderShower or Ultimates or 1-Count....................................................................................6
6) Pass-Self… or RR-LL or Cross-Self or Diagonal-Self.................................................................6
7) Jim’s 3-Count.............................................................................................................................. 6
8) Pass to All Hands or Double-Straight-Crossed-Self....................................................................7
9) “3-Count, 2-Count, 1-Count, Self” or “P-S-S-P-S-P-P-S”............................................................7
10) 1 Feeds 2................................................................................................................................ 8
III. More Challenging Patterns......................................................................................................... 8
1) 1 Feeds 2 3-Count or Pass-Pass-Self-Feed-2 or 3-Count Feed.................................................8
2) 1 Feeds 2 (All-Hands) or Ultimate Feed or Typewriter Feed......................................................9
3) 1 Feeds 3 (Machinegun Feed)....................................................................................................9
4) 1 Feeds 3 Faster or Machinegun Ultimate Feed 3....................................................................10
5) 1 Feeds 3 3-Count or Typewriter Ultimate Feed 3....................................................................10
6) 7 Club Ultimate Singles.............................................................................................................11
7) Martins Mild-Madness...............................................................................................................11
8) Martin’s Mildness...................................................................................................................... 12
9) Martins Madness.......................................................................................................................12
IV. 7 Club Variations.......................................................................................................................13
1) 7-Club Singles...........................................................................................................................13
2) 7-Clubs Left Handed.................................................................................................................13
3) 7-Club 3-Count..........................................................................................................................13
4) 7-Club Mirror Image.................................................................................................................. 13
V. Ultimate Variations....................................................................................................................... 14
1) Synchronous Ultimates.............................................................................................................14
2) Left-Right-Simul-Simul.............................................................................................................. 14
3) Double Shower Feed (or The Gorilla).......................................................................................14
VI. Triangle Patterns.......................................................................................................................15
1) Inside EveryOther:.................................................................................................................... 15
2) Inside Shower:.......................................................................................................................... 15
3) Outsides.................................................................................................................................... 15
4) 3in-3out or 2in-2out?.................................................................................................................15
5) 3-Count..................................................................................................................................... 15
6) The Bermuda Triangle.............................................................................................................. 15
7) Ultimate Triangle (inside or outside).........................................................................................16
8) 3-person triangle patterns, every one does something different...............................................16

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 9) 3-person, 3-count, rotating-feed, triangle pattern......................................................................17
VII........................................................................................................................................................ 18
VIII. Mirror Image Patterns............................................................................................................... 19
1) 4-Count..................................................................................................................................... 19
2) 2-Count..................................................................................................................................... 19
3) 3-Count..................................................................................................................................... 19
4) Pass-Pass-Self......................................................................................................................... 19
5) Ultimate.....................................................................................................................................19
6) 7-Club Single-Spin.................................................................................................................... 19
IX. Other Strange Patterns.............................................................................................................19
1) The Stupid Pattern.................................................................................................................... 19
2) The Less Stupid Pattern........................................................................................................... 20
3) P-P-S-D-S-D-S..........................................................................................................................20
4) P-P-S-D-S-D............................................................................................................................. 20
5) P-P-S-D-S-D-H......................................................................................................................... 20
6) P-P-S-D-D-H............................................................................................................................. 20
7) P-S-D-S.................................................................................................................................... 21
8) The Stover Conservatory or P-D-S-S....................................................................................... 21
9) The Lutkinsky............................................................................................................................21
10) 5-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-5...................................................................................................................22
11) Fast-Slow.............................................................................................................................. 22
12) Keith’s 3-Count Feed.............................................................................................................22
IX. Simul Patterns...........................................................................................................................23
1) 4-Count Simul Feed.................................................................................................................. 23
2) LCM34...................................................................................................................................... 24
3) Simul Triangle........................................................................................................................... 24
4) Parallel (Simul) Universe.......................................................................................................... 24

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I. Introduction
This document is intended to explain and document a variety of basic to advanced passing patterns for 2 or more people.
In some of the patterns, one person is passing to (feeding) to more than just one other juggler. While in other patterns
both the feeder and/or the feedy will be passing and receiving with both their left and right hands (ie. 3-Count). In other
cases, there will be patterns where all jugglers are doing different things (ie. passing to and receiving from different
jugglers while each is doing a different pattern). In general though, the intend of this document is to get more jugglers to
see how passing with their LEFT hand can open up whole new world of passing patterns and possibilities. Since the right
side of your brain is said to control the left side of your body I have decided to name this document “Juggling in your Right
Mind”

I will try to start with the most basic passing patterns and work towards the more advanced ones but it will be for those
daring enough to try them to decide what is easier or harder for them (and their partner(s)). In some cases I simply ask
that you take some of the traditional right-hand passing patterns and try doing them with all left-hand passes; remember,
you can still do all your usual passing tricks.

Each pattern will be given one or more titles as they are often referred to by the various jugglers I’ve met. I will then
describe how many jugglers (and clubs) are needed to execute the pattern along with a general configuration and
description of how the pattern works. I will make use of some simple stick figure diagrams to help illustrate the
configurations of each pattern and will also provide a set of notations to help understand what each hand is doing in each
step (self or pass, right or left) of the pattern.

Having said that …

Let the fun begin …

II. The Basics

1) 4-Count or Every-Other
This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern (2 people with 3 clubs each) and both partners face each other. This pattern is
often also referred to as “Fast-Start-Every-Other” and is the most basic (common) passing pattern for 2 people.
Typically started with each juggler taking 2 clubs in their right hand and one in their left, each jugglers starts by
passing a club from their right hand (fast-start) to their partners left hand (straight across) followed by a series of 3
self throws (L-R-L) and then followed by another pass to their partner with the right hand. (Pass-Self-Self-Self-
Pass-Self-Self-Self-Pass…)

 While both the self throws and pass throws can incorporate tricks, in this and other patterns, trick
throws will not be the focus of this document. I’m just here to explain the basics of executing
each of the patterns described. So all trick throws are left to the imagination of the performers.
Also, I will try to come up with a variety of shorthand notations for the patterns. For the above
pattern, here are some examples of a few such notations you will see throughout this document.

R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L…
P-S-S-S-P-S-S-S…

 In the above notation, I use two lines, one to indicate which hand is doing what and another line
to indicate what that hand does (P)ass or (S)elf.

RP-LS-RS-LS-RP-LS-RS-LS-RP…

 In this one line notation, I have simply combined “the hand” with “the action”
(RP=Right Pass, LS=Left Self).

In this first pattern both partners do the same thing at the same time with the same hands.

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 Another variation on this pattern is to try doing it with all LEFT-HAND passes in which case you may want to start
with 2 clubs in your left hand and one in the right and do …

LP-RS-LS-RS-LP-RS-LS-RS…

If you’re more used to starting with 2 clubs in your right hand you can start with either 1 or 3 self throws
before the left-hand pass(es).

RS-LP-RS-LS-RS-LP-RS-LS-RS… or RS-LS-RS-LP-RS-LS-RS-LP…

Hint: To test out a pattern without actually doing it

I have often found it useful to simply hold your clubs and swing your arms in a motion that would indicate what
you would do without actually doing it. For each throw that is a pass, you will swing your arm outward in the
direction the pass should go (either straight or diagonal). For each step that is a self, you will swing your arm up
towards your opposite shoulder. In more complex patterns it is useful to have all participants do this exercise to
make everyone knows the pattern and everyone seems to be pointing in the right direction at the right time.

2) Shower or Every’s or 2-Count

This pattern is similar to the last pattern. This pattern is for 2-people and 6-clubs. Both partners face each other.
Start with 2 clubs in your right hand and 1 in your left. Start by passing with your right hand (fast-start) to your
partner then do a self with the left hand followed by another pass immediately with the right. In fact, in this
pattern, every action with the right hand is a pass and every action with the left hand is a self (left-to-right).

The notation for this pattern might be …

RP-LS-RP-LS-RP-LS…

Both partners do the same thing at the same time with the same hands.

Note: In some passing patterns, a pass is done as a crossed pass (or diagonal) which means that the pass
originates from your left (or right) hand and is passed to your partners same hand; your left to their left or your
right to their right (see mirror image juggling below). In the patterns just described this is not the case. The
passes are all straight passes going from your left (or right) hand to your partners opposite (straight across) hand;
your right to their left or your left to their right. When crossed or diagonal passes are necessary, it will be
indicated and described as such.

This pattern should also be tried with all left-hand passes, which would be considered a left hand shower pattern.
LP-RS-LP-RS-LP-RS…

It may be best to start this pattern with 2 clubs in your left and 1 in your right when trying to do this pattern.
Or you could start with one right-left

L2 R1

1 2
PASS SELF

R1 L2
Figure 1 Figure 2

This introduction of my simple stick figure diagrams (see above) will be used to explain the notation you will see
throughout this document. It is my intent that these diagrams help you to understand the configuration and order
of the tossing of the patterns. Here I will explain the notations.

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 The first diagram shows that each jugglers starts with 2 clubs in their left-hand and 1 club in their right-hand
(see L2 and R1 in fig.1). The first count of the pattern is a straight pass from each jugglers left-hand to there
partners right-hand. The next count (fig.2) is a right to left self. The arrows simply represent the direction of each
toss on each count of the pattern.

Note: In both of these first two patterns, as well as all patterns, you have the choice of doing a “FastStart” or a
“SlowStart”. A “FastStart” means that you will start the pattern right off with a pass with either the left or right hand
depending on the pattern. A “SlowStart” usually means that you and your partner(s) will start the pattern with four
(or less) self throws to sort of get things started before the first pass. In the classic “Right Hand 4-Count
SlowStart” pattern, you and your partner will start with 2 clubs in your right hand and 1 in your left. You will start
with a RS-LS-RS-LS before you do the first RP (right pass). This SlowStart method can be especially useful in
DropBack patterns (tossing a club over your shoulder to a person behind you). Another option to get things going
a bit quicker but still start with some self throws is to do a what I call Half-a-SlowStart in which you do only 2 self
throws RS-LS-RP….

Challenge: For those somewhat more experienced passers this simple variation (left hand shower) can be found
to be a bit challenging. In fact, if you are an accomplished passer of tricks during the normal right hand 4-Count
(or 2-Count) passing patterns, try passing all your favorite tricks while now doing all left hand passes. Not that
easy is it.

Tip: This previous section was just a warm-up to get you started with left-hand passing. You probable should
practice these left-hand variations until you are comfortable and accurate with you left-hand passes before going
on to the next set of patterns which truly begin incorporating both left and right hand passes into the patterns.

3) 3-Count or 1/3-Count
This pattern is for 2-people and 6-clubs. Partners face each other. The pattern typically starts with each partner
taking 2 clubs in their right hand and 1 club in their left. This pattern starts with a “FastStart” (PASS) with the right
hand and is followed by 2 self’s and then a pass with the left hand. The pattern continues each time with 2 self’s
and then a pass with each successive pass occurring with the alternate hand. Right-Pass, self, self, Left-Pass,
self, self, Right-Pass, self, self, Left-Pass … This is a very nice pattern and is another nice way to start developing
your left hand passing skill. The notation for this pattern is RP-LS-RS-LP-RS-LS-RP-LS-RS-LP-RS-LS… Or
start with whichever hand you choose and simply do P-S-S-P-S-S-P-S-S… Each pass is done as a straight
across pass. A variety of tricks can also be thrown within this pattern. Also you’ll notice that each time you pass,
you’ll be passing the same 2 clubs back and forth between you and your partner. In fact this is a good way to
start and get this pattern working if you are having trouble. Each of you starts with a special (same color) club in
your right hand and lead your fist throw with that club. Then be sure to simply pass that club back and forth, first
with your right then with your left. In this pattern, both partners do the same thing at the same time with same
hands. All passes are straight across.

4) Pass-Pass-Self or 2/3-Count
This pattern is for 2-people and 6-clubs. Partners face each other. This pattern starts with each partner taking 2
clubs in their right hand and 1 club in their left. This pattern starts with a “FastStart” (PASS) with the right hand
and then is immediately followed with a pass from the left hand. That’s 2 passes back to back, right off the bat,
first with the right and then immediately followed with a pass from the left, then comes a self and then another 2
consecutive passes. The tricky part of this pattern is that you will lead into each set of passes with the opposite
hand, first with the right (R-L-S) then with the left (L-R-S). Here’s the notation: [RP-LP-RS]-[LP-RP-LS]-[RP-
LP-RS]-[LP-RP-LS]… or [P-P-S]-[P-P-S]-[P-P-S]… ;( hence the name “Pass-Pass-Self”). With this
pattern you may notice that the self is always the same club. Like in the 3-Count pattern above, if you try to use
that special club each time you do the self-throw it may help the pattern come together. This is at least an
intermediate level pattern if not an advanced one. So, don’t feel bad if you don’t get this right away. In this
pattern, both partners do the same thing at the same time with the same hands. All passes are straight across.

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 5) ThunderShower or Ultimates or 1-Count
This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. This pattern starts with each person facing each other starting with 2 clubs in
the right hand and 1 club in the left. This pattern can be tried first on one side and then on the other to help get
the hang of it. The idea of this pattern is that every throw is a pass (with both hands). Try starting on just one
side, say your right side with the 2 clubs you have in your right hand and the 1 club your partner has in her left
hand. Try juggling the 3 clubs between you just on your right side (and your partners left side). The person with
the 2 clubs in their hand will start with a pass and your partner will respond by returning a pass of their club and
so on. The pattern is P-P-P-P… More specifically when doing it on just one side for you it will be RP-RP-RP… and
for your partner it will be LP-LP-LP… Now try the same thing but on the other side (your left side and your
partner’s right side.) To combine it, you will each lead with a pass “FastStart” from your right and then
immediately follow with subsequent passes from both hands. In this pattern, it is best to keep the passes high,
deep, and slow (lofty). Lob each pass high and slow so that it makes just one spin as in any normal pass. The
passes need to be high, and deep, because each subsequent pass on the same side will need to go under the
incoming pass. The notation is obviously RP-LP-RP-LP-RP-LP… or P-P-P-P-P… Each pass is straight
across and both partners do the same thing at the same time with both hands. While this pattern is also at least
an intermediate level pattern (or advanced) it may actually be or seem a bit easier then the P-P-S pattern above
because there is actually less to think about.

6) Pass-Self… or RR-LL or Cross-Self or Diagonal-Self

This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. Each partner starts with 2 clubs in their right and 1 in their left with each
partner facing each other. This pattern will be the first one to introduce a crossed or diagonal pass. In this pattern
each of you will do 2 throws with the same hand back to back (R-R or L-L). The pattern is to throw a crossed
right-hand pass immediately followed by a right self. The pattern then proceeds with a left crossed pass
immediately followed by a left self. Each partner does the same thing at the same time with the same hands. Let
me just get the notation out and then we’ll talk more about it. The notation for this pattern will be RCP-RS-LCP-
LS-RCP-RS-LCP-LS… In this notation the symbol, RCP will mean, “right-cross-pass”. This pattern will require
what is often referred to as “hurries”. That is, the reason you need to do the self throw right after the pass throw is
because you will have a club coming into the hand that just did the pass but there is still another club in that hand,
hence you must hurry and get rid of it. This pattern has a tendency to want to speed-up. Again, remember to do
slow, high (lofty) passes to keep this pattern from getting out of control. The first assumption is that if you both
throw a crossed pass from the same hand that the clubs will collide in the middle. This can happen but doesn’t
have to happen. You will need to throw the clubs so that they pass each other to your inside. The view below is
showing the right hand passes as looking down on the two jugglers. There is not much more I can say to
describe this pattern.

As it’s name states, the pattern is P-S-P-S-P-S… or R-R-L-L-R-R-L-L… (see the full notation above)

7) Jim’s 3-Count
This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. This is a nifty little variation on the regular 3-Count pattern described above
that also combines the crossed passing and hurries that was just described (see Pass-Self above). Like the 3-
Count pattern, in this pattern it is important that you focus on always passing the club back that was just passed to
you. You can also go into (transition into) this pattern while doing the regular 3-Count pattern. The challenge for
me to describing it is that this is the first pattern were the two jugglers are doing different things. The difference
between this and the regular 3-Count is simply that one of the jugglers throws all crossed (diagonal) passes while
the other juggler always throws straight passes. Let’s call the jugglers “JUG-A” and “JUG-B”
I will now give the notation for each of the jugglers.

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For JUG-A (who will do the crossed passes) it’s: RCP-LS-RS-LCP-LS-RS-LCP-RS-LS-RCP-RS-LS-RCP-LS-RS…
For JUG-B (who will do all straight passes) it’s: RP--RS-LS-RP--LS-RS-LP--LS-RS-LP--RS-LS-RP--RS-LS…
\________/ \_______/ \_______/ \_______/ REPEAT
1 2 3 4

This pattern is also kind of long in that it only begins to repeat after the 4 th cycle (4th pass). I can only stress the
focus on passing back the club that you just received (as in the regular 3-Count pattern). Also, this is like the 3-
Count pattern but it is clearly not the 3-Count pattern. It sort of feels like the 3-Count pattern but really feels a bit
different because of the occasional double throw with the same hand (R-R or L-L) and the hurries. Just try it,
you’ll like it … To transition into the pattern from the traditional 3-Count pattern, simply start juggling the 3-Count
pattern and then at some point one of you will simply start throwing all crossed passes.

8) Pass to All Hands or Double-Straight-Crossed-Self

This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. This is a bit of an interesting pattern and is also a bit challenging. The idea is
that you will pass a club to each of the four hands between the two jugglers. First, each of the passes will be
done with the right hand, then; each of the four passes will be done with the left hand. Each juggler starts with 2
clubs in their right hand and 1 in their left. The first throw is a double straight up (a “4” in sight-swap notation)
followed by a right hand pass straight, then a crossed pass (R-to-R) and then a self (your R to your L). At that
point, you will already have a club in your left hand, which will then be thrown as a double straight up, which
becomes the first throw as the pattern now turns to the left side of things. You will then do a left straight pass,
followed by a left crossed pass (L-to-L) and then a left self (your L to your R). You are now ready to repeat the
whole pattern again now back on the right side of things. So, to recap from one juggler’s perspective, you will first
pass a club from your right hand to your right hand (that’s the double straight up) then you will pass a club from
your right hand to your partners left hand (straight pass) then you pass a club to your right hand to your partners
right hand (R-to-R crossed pass) then you will pass a club from your right hand to your left hand (the self). All of
these passes will have been done with your right hand and the passing was done in a sort of counter clockwise
direction. After the right-to-left self throw you will begin a mirror image of the pattern now doing it with all left-hand
passes in a clockwise direction; Double, Straight, Crossed, Self. Let’s see if I can give a notation for this pattern
…

RD-RP-LS-RCP-RS-LD-LP-RS-LCP-LS… (Whoa, that’s10 counts!)

In this pattern, each partner does the same thing with the same hand at the same time.

9) “3-Count, 2-Count, 1-Count, Self” or “P-S-S-P-S-P-P-S”

This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. This pattern is also somewhat tricky because it has a rather long wavelength (8
counts before it repeats). The second way I have denoted the title of this pattern may be the easier way of
thinking about this pattern in terms of trying to do it. However, I will show you how both titles fit the description of
this pattern. First, you have the 3-count, which is (P-S-S-P)-S-P-P-S. Next you have the 2-count which is P-
S-S-(P-S-P)-P-S. Then you have the 1-count which is P-S-S-P-S-(P-P)-S. And finally you have the Self
which is just P-S-S-P-S-P-P-(S). This is a fun and interesting pattern if you can get it down. It is not a
symmetrical pattern in that when it repeats you always lead with a right-hand pass but also, you do different things
on the right side from the left side. In other words it is not a mirrored/symmetrical pattern like 3-Count. The
pattern always starts with a pass from the right hand. As the beats of the pattern are described above, we are
counting what both the right and left hand are doing. So, to be more exact, the pattern notation is RP-LS-RS-
LP-RS-LP-RP-LS-(repeat). Of course, you could start and do the pattern with the left hand doing the first
pass (flip the whole patter around) if you’re demented enough to try it that way (LP-RS-LS-RP-LS-RP-LP-RS-
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 10) 1 Feeds 2
This pattern is for 3-people and 9-clubs. This is not a very hard pattern and is a good next step for anyone who
can do the right hand shower pattern well. The pattern involves one person (the feeder) facing two other juggling
partners (the feedies) who will stand next to each other both facing the feeder. In this pattern the two feedies do
the 4-Count pattern but start offset from each other in timing by two beats and the feeder does a shower pattern
alternating a pass to each of her feedies. See the passing notations for the Shower pattern and the 4-Count
pattern above. To make things more fun and or interesting, try doing a Left-Hand feed with everyone doing all
left-hand passes.

OR

Right-Handed Left-Handed

III. More Challenging Patterns

1) 1 Feeds 2 3-Count or Pass-Pass-Self-Feed-2 or 3-Count Feed

This is a 3-person, 9-club pattern. In general, the feeder will be doing the Pass-Pass-Self pattern while feeding her
two partners who will each be doing the 3-Count pattern (offset in time). The feeder stands facing her two partners.
Each person starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and 1 club in their left. To help explain this pattern assume the
feeder is facing his two partners and we’ll call the partner to her right JUG-A and the partner to her left JUG-B; the
feeder will simply be referred to as “The Feeder”. While every pass throw is straight across, it may seem like a
crossed throw at times to the feeder since she is standing between the two partners (see picture diagram for 1-
Feeds-2 above). Again since each person is doing slightly different things I’ll try to explain the sequence for each
juggler one at a time. I’ll start by giving the notations for each of the jugglers then explain the pattern a little more.

Feeder’s notation: RAL-LBR-RS--LAR-RBL-LS… (where RAL = feeder’s right to JUG-A’s left)

JUG-A’s notation: RP--LS--RS--LP--RS--LS…
JUG-B’s notation: RS--LP--RS--LS--RP--LS…

Here are few things to note and possibly to make things a bit easier. The feeder should always start with the person
to her right. Also, the person to the left (JUG-B) must start with a right-self and then start the 3-Count pattern
leading with a left-hand pass as their first pass. The person on the left (JUG-B) can also just start with 2 clubs in
their left and just wait 1 count before they start but this is not recommended because it often messes up the timing
of the pattern. Finally, another way for the feeder to remember what they are supposed to do is to keep thinking
Outside-Outside-Self-Inside-Inside-Self… In other words, the first right and left passes go to their partners outside
hands (then a self) and then the next two passes (left and right passes) go to their partners inside hands.

2
B B
4
3=RS 6=LS Then
5 Repeat
A A
1
As this pattern progress, another thing for the feeder to remember is that she will always start a set of passes with a
pass to JUG-A first, either with her right hand or with her left hand. In other words for each P-P-S either L-R-S or

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 R-L-S the passes will always go to JUG-A then JUG-B. Note that in the diagram above, step-4 is the first set of
passes in the L-R-S combination and that first pass is to JUG-A.

2) 1 Feeds 2 (All-Hands) or Ultimate Feed or Typewriter Feed

This is a 3-person, 9-club pattern. In general, the feeder will be doing Ultimates (see Ultimates above) while her two
partners will be doing a pattern I have not yet described which we’ll call Pass-Pass-Self-Self. In this pattern the
feeder stands facing her two partners. Each person starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and 1 club in their left.
The feeder is going to feed each of the hands of her partners starting from the far right and working toward the far
left all the way down the line starting with JUG-A (the partner to the right). The partners (JUG-A to the feeders right
and JUG-B to the feeders left) will be doing a series of Pass-Pass-Self-Self with each pass leading with their right
hand. The notations for this pattern are as follows …

Feeder’s notation: RAL-LAR-RBL-LBR…repeat (where RAL = feeder’s right to JUG-A’s left)

JUG-A’s notation: RFL-LFR-RS--LS …repeat (where RFL = JUG-A’s right to feeder’s left)
JUG-B’s notation: RS--LS--RFL-LFR…repeat (where LFR = JUG-B’s left to feeder’s right)

Again, note that the feeder starts passing to the person to their right and in an Ultimate pattern fashion passes to
JUG-A’s left hand then immediately to JUG-A’s right hand and then JUG-B’s left hand then JUG-B’s right hand.
Every throw for the feeder is a pass in this pattern; hence Ultimate. All passes in this pattern by all jugglers are
straight across passes; no crossed (diagonal) passes. In addition, since it takes 2 counts to get to JUG-B, he can
either just pause for 2 counts or start with 2 self throws as indicated by the notation. See how I tried to get the
notations to line up so to sync the feeder’s notation with those of JUG-A and JUG-B above.

2 Jug-B
4 Jug-B
Repeat
1 Jug-A 3
Jug-A

 Another pattern for 2 people and 6 clubs is Pass-Pass-Self-Self. This is a little harder than 3-Count
but a bit easier then Pass-Pass-Self. Try it, you’ll like it … RP-LP-RS-LS… Everyone does the
same thing at the same time with the same hands.
 This pattern can also be done with 3 people of different skill levels. In this variation, JUG-A simply
does the 4-Count pattern while JUG-B does a L-R-L-S pattern (P-P-P-S). The feeder is still
doing an Ultimate pattern (perhaps the hardest) while JUG-A is doing the easiest pattern (Right-
Hand 4-Count). JUG-B is also doing a rather challenging pattern of Left-Hand ¾ -Count. For
another twist, if JUG-A is capable of doing a Left-Hand 4-Count (not too difficult), then, have him
stand to the feeders left and do the first pass (a left to JUG-A) and then do R-L-R to JUG-B who is
now on your right. This may also be a bit easier for JUG-B is she is not quite up to the L-R-L-S
pattern. For some reason R-L-R-S is a bit easier than L-R-L-S.

3) 1 Feeds 3 (Machinegun Feed)

This is a 4-person, 12-club pattern. This pattern is simply an extension to the 1-Feeds-2 pattern described above.
This pattern is good for people of varying skill levels because for the 2 people on the outside of the 3-person line-up
it goes very slow. The feeder must be able to do a right hand shower pattern very well and most likely be able to
catch a lot of garbage from the perhaps more novice players. In this pattern the feeder faces a line of 3 apposing
partners. Everyone starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and 1 club in their left. The feeder starts with the person to
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 hand. Once the feeder has passed to the 3 rd person he starts back down the line (now moving to the right). With
the feeder facing his trio we have JUG-A, JUG-B, and JUG-C from right to left. The feeder is doing a right hand
Shower pattern, while the JUG-B is doing a 4-Count pattern. JUG-A and JUG-C are doing a 6-Count pattern (slow,
lots of self’s). The notations are as follows …

Feeder’s notation: RAL-LS-RBL-LS-RCL-LS-RBL-LS-RAL-LS-RBL-LS-RCL-LS-RBL-LS…

JUG-A’s notation: RP--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS…
JUG-B’s notation: RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS…
JUG-C’s notation: RS--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS-RS--LS-RP--LS-RS--LS…

 This pattern may get very boring for the jugglers on the ends if they are better jugglers. I guess
they could do all sorts of tricks to make it more fun and interesting. This pattern is good if JUG-A
and JUG-C are beginners and JUG-B is average and the feeder is good.
 Also, try doing it with all left hand passes.

4) 1 Feeds 3 Faster or Machinegun Ultimate Feed 3

This is a 4-person, 12-club pattern (like the above). This pattern is also good if the players are of various skill
levels. In general, in this pattern the feeder will be doing Ultimates, the jugglers on the ends of the 3-person line up
will each be doing 4-Count and the juggler in the middle (JUG-B) will be doing a Left-Hand Shower. In this pattern
the feeder will be passing with his right hand alternately to the jugglers on the ends (JUG-A and JUG-C). He will
also be passing every pass with his left hand (feeders left hand shower) to the middle juggler (JUG-B). While all
passes by all players in this pattern are straight across passes, the pass from the feeder to JUG-C will feel very
crossed. This is a very cool pattern but the feeder must be careful since the clubs are coming in quickly from all
directions and it may be hard to turn off this pattern once it has started. The notations for this pattern are as follows
…
2 Jug-C
Feeder’s notation: RAL-LBR-RCL-LBR-RAL-LBR-RCL-LBR…
JUG-A’s notation: RFL-LS--RS--LS--RFL-LS--RS--LS… Jug-B
3
JUG-B’s notation: RS--LFR-RS--LFR-RS--LFR-RS--LFR…
JUG-C’s notation: RS--LS--RFL-LS--RS--LS--RFL-LS… 1 Jug-A

 Notice, this is just like the 1-Feeds-3 pattern above only faster (and harder, especially for the feeder).
Also the term “Machinegun” is used to refer to a pattern that moves up and then down a line. Kind of like
how you would spray bullets coming from a machinegun. The term “Typewriter” is used to refer to a
pattern moving down the line and then jumps back to the beginning of the line; like a typewriter.

5) 1 Feeds 3 3-Count or Typewriter Ultimate Feed 3

This is a 4-person, 12-club pattern. In this pattern each of the feedies do the basic 3-Count pattern while the
feeder does an Ultimate Typewriter sort of pattern that is rather difficult to keep straight who your passing to and
to which hand and from which hand. It’s kind of like doing Pass-Pass-Self for the first time (only harder). So, in
this pattern the feeder stands faceing a 3-person line up. Each person starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and 1
club in their left. The feeder will start with the person to his right. Just like the pattern above the first three throws
for the feeder are the same, but unlike the pattern above this pattern is a Typewriter pattern and not a
Machinegun pattern. The next 3 throws start back at the beginning of the line and this time you will go down the
line with all of your passing hands switched. The only good thing about this pattern is that all passes for all
players are straight across passes; no crossed passes. The feeder will probably feel this is NOT the case at all
but it is. The only other good thing I have to say about this pattern is that once you have wired 2 passes down the
line your done and the pattern repeats. So lets just get to the notations.

Feeder’s notation: RAL-LBR-RCL- (first pass down the line) -LAR-RBL-LCR- (second pass down the line)…repeat
JUG-A’s notation: RFL-LS--RS- -LFR-RS--LS…
JUG-B’s notation: RS--LFR-RS- -LS--RFL-LS…
JUG-C’s notation: RS--LS--RFL- -LS--RS--LFR…

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 You can see in this notation that for the feeder it’s R-L-R-L-R-L…and he passes to juggler A-B-C-A-B-C…
Remember also in these notations …
RAL = Feeder’s Right to JUG-A’s Left
LBR = Feeder’s Left to JUG-B’s Right
RFL = JUG-X’s Right to feeder’s Left
LS = left self
RS = right left

6) 7 Club Ultimate Singles

This is a 2-person, 7-club pattern. This pattern is really cool but not TOO hard. In this pattern, one person will
pass all crossed (diagonal) passes and the other partner will pass all straight passes. The pattern starts with one
person holding 4 clubs (2 in each hand) and the other person holding 3 clubs (2 and 1). The person with 4 clubs
starts by passing the first club to his partner to the hand that has only 1 club. So if the person starting with 4 clubs
is going to be the one doing all crossed passes then his first pass will be a crossed pass to his partners hand that
starts off with just 1 club. Or, if the person with 4 clubs will be doing all straight passes then he will start by
passing straight across to his partners hand which is holding just 1 club. The person starting with 3 clubs must
start passing pretty much at the same time as the person with 4 clubs and will start their first pass from the hand
holding 2 clubs (either straight or crossed). Unlike the normal 7-club passing pattern with double (or single) spins
where the second person (starting with 3 clubs) waits one count before starting, both people will start at just about
the same time. The person starting with 3 clubs may want to wait just a hair before starting (1/4 of a count). All
passes must be high and slow, however, this pattern will progress at a faster pace then the normal 6-club Ultimate
pattern. I don’t see much reason for notations in this pattern. Basically, it is an Ultimate pattern for both jugglers
(every throw is a pass). The only difference, again, is that one juggler will pass all crossed passes while the other
passes all straight passes.

7) Martins Mild-Madness
This is a 2-person, 6-club pattern. This is probably the hardest pattern to do and the hardest to explain as well. In
this pattern both jugglers will be doing a variation of the Pass-Pass-Self pattern, however, one of the jugglers will
be doing all crossed passes, while the other juggler will be doing all straight passes. Sounds easy enough so far.
The tricky part is the introduction of a new thing called a “Handacross”. The Handacross is basically like doing a
“1” with a club from the “Site Swap” notation. Taking a club from your left (or right) hand and simply handing it
across to your other hand. No spin, just hand it across. Both jugglers will start with 2 clubs in their right hand and
1 in their left. Here are the notations.

For the juggler doing all straight passes the notation will be …
RP-LP-[R to L Handacross-LS]-RP-LP-RS-LP-RP-[L to R Handacross-RS]-LP-RP-LS…

For the juggler doing all the crossed passes the notation will be …
RCP-LCP-RS-LCP-RCP-[L to R Handacross-RS]-LCP-RCP-LS-RCP-LCP-[R to L Handacross-LS]…

In other words this funky Handacross-Self move will happen every other time and it will be offset for each juggler.
The person passing the straight passes will do it the first time but not the second time but than again on the 3 rd
and 5th … time. The person passing the crossed passes will NOT do it the first time but will do it on the 2 nd, 4th, 6th,
… time. For each time that you don’t do it, it is the normal Pass-Pass-Self pattern. For each time that you do, do
it, it will be Pass-Pass-(Handacross-Self). Note that the Handacross-Self move all happens in just 1 count since
the handacross part takes virtually no time.

The trickiest part of this pattern is getting the Handacross-Self moves down in both the R-to-L and L-to-R
directions. You may start to get it in one direction but then have difficulty getting it down in the other direction
mainly because the pattern takes a long time to get through one entire cycle (12 throws). To aid in this try
switching off who throws the straight passes and who throws the crossed passes. The other thing to do is for both
of you to start with 2 clubs in your left hand and 1 in your right and try starting the pattern leading with your left
hand (just switch all the L’s and R’s in the above notation or just start at the 7 th step in the notation). These tips
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 allowing you to practice them in both directions. Another thing to watch out for is the initial instinct to do a
Reachacross instead of the Handacross. That is to catch one of the incoming clubs by reaching with your
opposite hand across your body to catch the incoming club. What will be happening is you will have a hand free
(empty) and another hand with a club in it and with almost no time to react a club will coming in to that occupied
hand. That is where the Handacross needs to have occurred but a natural instinct is simply reach across with that
empty hand to make the catch. Don’t do this!

Another way to practice all the Handacrosses (yet also quite challenging) is to alternate the straight passes with
the crossed passes. So the person starting with the straight passes will do SP-SP-Self then CP-CP-Self then SP-
SP-Self (where SP=straight pass and CP=crossed pass). Your partner will need to do the same thing only
opposite. The result will be that the person starting with the straight passes will have to do ALL the Handacrosses
every time and their partner will do NONE.

8) Martin’s Mildness
This is the feeding version of the above pattern. It is a 3-person 9-club pattern. In this pattern the feeder is
basically doing what was just described above but must now be sure he passes to the correct hand of the correct
person. The feedies are doing crossed passing version of Jim’s 3-Count (I believe). In most all of the feed
patterns described, I have found that it is best if all the participants start with 2 clubs in their right and 1 in their left
and for everyone to start at the same time even if some of the feedies have to wait 1, 2, or even 3 counts before
their first pass. It helps synchronize the timing of the pattern for everyone, especially the feeder. It will take 12
passes by the feeder to complete one full cycle of this pattern. The diagram below is for the benefit of the feeder.
It counts out and shows each of his passes. Note that for each set of passes he always passes to JUG-A first.
The slogan I use to help keep this pattern straight in my head is “outside-outside-self-inside-inside-self-inside-
inside-self-outside-outside-self…”. Note that not every self is really just a self, throw 3 and 9 are the
“handaccross-self” moves as described above.
2 B
B 5
3 = R->L 6=RS
handacross
L-self 4 A
A
1
10 B
7 B 9 = L->R
handacross 12=LS Then
R-self Repeat
11 A
A
8

9) Martins Madness
This is basically the same pattern as described above (Martins Mildness) except that in this case the feedies do
the straight passing variation of Jim’s 3-Count and the feeder does all the crossed (diagonal) passes. For the
feeder this pattern is just as difficult if not more so since when it comes time to do the outside passes you must do
what is referred to as an “extreme”. This would be passing from the feeders right hand to the Jug-B’s right hand
and from the feeders left hand to Jug-A’s left hand. What I try to think about when doing this pattern is “extreme-
extreme-self-inside-inside-self-inside-inside-self-extreme-extreme-self…”. You still have to do the “handacross’s”
as well.

IV. 7 Club Variations

These are patterns for 2-persons and 7-clubs. The variations here are not that hard but do add a twist to the normal 7-
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hand) and the other person starts with 3-clubs (2 in the right and 1 in the left). The person with 4 clubs starts by throwing
a right double straight across and then continues to do a right hand shower pattern with each right hand throw being a
straight across double. His partner will try and wait a moment before starting but will then begin to do the same right hand
straight across double shower pattern. This pattern often looks good because there are a lot of clubs flying high in the air.

The variations are as follows:

1) 7-Club Singles
First try doing this same pattern as single spin passes instead of doubles. This pattern is quite doable
and is just a little faster than a 6-club shower pattern. Try to throw each pass high and slow (lofty). The
key is for the person starting with 3 clubs to wait as long as possible before staring to give the person
starting with 4 clubs a chance to start showering after getting that first throw off.

2) 7-Clubs Left Handed

Consider trying both the traditional 7-club doubles pattern and the 7-club singles pattern with all Left-Hand
passes instead of Right-Hand passes. Come on, it’s really not that hard.

3) 7-Club 3-Count
The next variation is the 7-club 3-count pattern. In this pattern we go back to throwing doubles but both
partners will be alternating between right and left hand passes. The other variation here is that one
person will be doing all crossed (diagonal) passes while the other person does all straight passes. The
person with 4 clubs will start. Depending on whether they are doing the straight or crossed passes they
need to throw their first double so that it travels towards their partner’s hand that is holding one club. So if
the leader (the one starting with 4 clubs) is going to throw straight passes and their partner is starting with
2 clubs in their right hand and one in their left, then the leader must start by throwing a straight right
double then do a LS-RS then a left straight double. Meanwhile their partner (the one starting with 3 clubs)
should wait as in the normal 7-club doubles and then start by throwing a right crossed double. Things
continue with the normal 3-count rhythm only throwing all doubles.

4) 7-Club Mirror Image

This next variation goes back to single spins but now has both partners doing crossed passes. One
partner will do all R-to-R passes and the other will do all L-to-L passes. Again the leader (starting with 4
clubs) will throw their first pass to their partner’s hand holding 1 club. The trick here is to decide who will
throw all the lefts and who will throw all the rights. The other trick is getting the timing just right so that the
clubs do not collide in the middle as each club will be passing through the middle in a tic-tock fashion
quite close. One other thing I think I should mention is that the person doing the L-to-L passes will need
to start with 2 clubs in their left hand (assuming also that they are starting with 3 clubs rather than 4).

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V. Ultimate Variations
An ultimate pattern, just means that all throws are passes; there are no self throws. These throws (passes) can be
synchronous or asynchronous (meaning that you may throw with both the left and right hands at the same time or
alternating R-L-R-L…). The basic asynchronous ultimate pattern for 2-people and 6-clubs is described above however
there are some more interesting variations.

These variations are as follows:

1) Synchronous Ultimates
The leader starts with 4 clubs (2 in each hand) and the follower starts with 2 clubs (1 in each hand). The
leader starts by throwing a club from both their right and left hands at the same time, straight across,
single spin. The pattern proceeds with each partner returning 2 clubs at the same time out of each hand.
It is best to try to throw the clubs from the middle of your body towards the outside; but be careful not to
get too wide.

2) Left-Right-Simul-Simul
This pattern is a 2-person 6-club pattern with both partners starting with 3 clubs each. This pattern also
combines both synchronous and asynchronous ultimate passing. While this pattern may seem like it
should be easy, it is probably as difficult to do, as it will be to describe, though it is a relatively simple
pattern (in theory). Both partners will be doing the same thing just not at the same time. There are
probably a variety of ways this pattern can be started but this is the way I know how to start it so that is
how I’m going to describe it. Even though both partners start with 3 clubs, I’m going to refer to one of the
partners as the leader just so I can distinguish things. OK, here we go. The leader will start with 2 clubs
in their right and 1 in their left. The follower will start with 2 clubs in their left hand and 1 in their right. All
single club passes are crossed and all synchronous (2-club) passes (simul) are straight. All passes are
single spin even though I refer to this pattern as “Left-Right-Double-Double” it is simply to denote the
single club passes form the synchronous (2-club) passes. Anyway, the leader starts with a crossed pass
from their right hand to their partner’s right hand while their partner responds with a straight synchronous
pass of 2 clubs. The pattern then proceeds with the leader doing 2 synchronous (2-club) passes in a row
while his partner does a LCP-RCP. The leader then does LCP-RCP and his partner does 2 synchronous
passes in a row. So the pattern looks something like this …
Leader: RCP--Sync-Sync-LCP--RCP--Sync-Sync-…
Follower: Sync-LCP--RCP--Sync-Sync-LCP--RCP--…
Note that in this pattern there is not quite enough time for each of the single LCP and RCP passes to take
a full count in time, as do the synchronous (2-club) throws. As such, the LCP-RCP come in a rather rapid
succession taking about 1½ counts (or less) in time.

3) Double Shower Feed (or The Gorilla)

This is a 3-person 10-club pattern in which 1 juggler will be feeding the two other jugglers but unlike the
normal (easy) feed whereby the feedies are doing 4-count (or every-other), in this patter the feedies are
doing 2-count (or everies or shower or whatever you like to call it). In this pattern the feeder will start with
4-clubs (2 in her left and 2 in her right). This patter can be done synchronously or asynchronously. To
make it easy (if I can say that) the feeder will feed the left hand of both partners (the feedies) while the
feedy on the left will shower to the feeders left hand and the feedy on the right will shower to the feeders
right hand. This pattern has been called “The Gorilla” because if done synchronously then the feeder can
make grunting noises with each synchronous pass and his arm motions should resemble that of a gorilla
. Obviously there are many variations here since the feeder can pass any combination of inside or
outside passes to the feedies plus it can be done synchronously or asynchronously (8 possibilities, try
and collect them all). This one is not as hard as you might think.

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VI. Triangle Patterns
These patterns are like feed patterns, but each of the three jugglers all pass to each other. We’ll start with some easy
ones and move towards some more challenging ones. All of these patterns are for 3-persons and 9-clubs. Below is a
diagram to help you understand the orientation of the jugglers and the throws.

1) Inside EveryOther:
Everyone starts with 2-clubs in their right hand and one in their left. We start with a fast start, each person
passing on the inside to the partner on his left with his right hand and receiving from his partner on his right. This
pattern precedes in the normal every-other style in sort of a clockwise rotation continuing with right hand passes
to your partner on your left and receiving from your partner on your right.

2) Inside Shower:
This is the same pattern just a bit faster (2-count instead of 4-count).

3) Outsides
The trick here is that the pattern is a bit wider which makes it harder to see where things are going to and coming
from. The main trick to these patterns is to keep looking straight ahead and just use your peripheral vision (and
the force) to know where to throw and where to catch. Too much moving your head and you will probably have
difficulty keeping your end of the pattern going.

4) 3in-3out or 2in-2out?
Now take the Inside and Outside patterns from above and simply combine them doing 3 (or 2) insides followed by
3 (or 2) outsides.
Note: So far the patterns are all your usual right hand passing patterns put into a triangle orientation. Try doing all
of these above patterns with left hand passes.

5) 3-Count
In this little goodie, we combine left and right hand passing with our old friend the 3-count. This pattern can be
done with all inside passes or all outside passes. Another variation is to always pass to the same person whereby
all the right hand passes are inside passes and all the left hand passes are outside passes (or visa versa). One
more variation is to do 2 passes in the 3-count sequence with the partner on your right (one R-hand and one L-
hand pass) then turn and do 2 passes in 3-count style to the partner on your left then repeat.

6) The Bermuda Triangle

This pattern does a nice job of combining the inside and outside passes with the pass-pass-self pattern. This is a
fairly advance pattern but basically you will do pass-pass-self in a triangle formation doing something like inside-
inside-self-outside-outside-self-… Of course you can vary this pattern by doing all inside (or outside) passes and
altering the direction after each self. One more variation like from above is to do the 2 passes to the same partner
(to your right) then do the self and follow with 2 passes to the partner on your left (this one is quite challenging).

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 7) Ultimate Triangle (inside or outside)
Now this is the ultimate triangle pattern. No really! This is usually done with all inside passes (because it’s
easier). Try to keep the pattern slow and accurate and keep looking forward; this one will really screw with you if
you keep turning your head. Try switching from inside passes to outside passes on the fly after every 4 passes
(inside-inside-inside-inside-outside-outside-outside-outside-…).

Inside Outside

8) 3-person triangle patterns, every one does something different

4-count, 2-count, feed
 “A” does a feed pattern between “B” and “C” starting with “B”
 “B” does a 4-count pattern to “C” only starting with fast start to “C”
 “C” does a 2-count (shower) pattern to “A” only starting with fast start to “A”
All passes are right-handed but could also be done with all left-handed passes.

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 3-count, PPS, 3-count feed
 “A” does a 3-count feed pattern between “B” and “C” starting with “B”
 “B” does a 3-count pattern to “C” only starting with fast start to “C”
 “C” does a P-P-S pattern to “A” only starting with fast start to “A”
I realize this is a very messy diagram but I’m just trying to show all possible directions of the
passes from each of the players in the game. Note that arrows from “B” only point to “C” and
arrows from “C” only point to “A” but arrows from “A” point to both “B” and “C”. Also there are
passes from all players with both their left and right hands. This pattern can be a bit tricky and
note that you will be receiving passes for persons other than who you are passing to.

9) 3-person, 3-count, rotating-feed, triangle pattern

This is a really cool pattern if you can actually figure it out and do it. It is quite difficult but not really. This is an
18-count pattern for everyone but everyone is doing something a bit different at all times. Basically, this pattern is
for 3 people standing in a triangle formation. Each person has 3 clubs and starts with 2 in their right hand and 1 in
their left hand. To start things off, lets assume that “A” will be the first feeder and that the role of the feeder will
rotate counter-clockwise. The feeder position will rotate or move after every 3 counts of the pattern. When you
are the feeder, your passes will be inside passes. Likewise, when you are not the feeder your passes will be all
outside passes. As in a normal 3-count feed, the feeder does P-P-S. The feedies will do a combination of P-S-S
and S-P-S. In fact everyone will do all combinations of all three of these sub-patterns as part of this pattern. At
this point, let me give a diagram and some notations.

C
The above diagram is showing the first 3 counts of the pattern. Try to notice that “A” is throwing inside
passes while “B” and “C” are throwing outside passes. As stated above, “A” does P-P-S first passing to
“B” then to “C”. “B” does P-S-S and “C” does S-P-S. One final thing to note about this pattern is that
everyone does a self every third count. Finally, after 3-counts of the pattern the feeder role rotates
counter-clockwise to “B”.

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 Notation 1: This notation tries to show what each person is doing but not necessarily to whom s/he is
doing it too. Depending on your position in the pattern (A, B, or C) you can try to just memorize your
18-count pattern and then also just remember that you pass to the person with outside passes when
you’re not the feeder and with inside passes when you are the feeder.

R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L
JUG-A does P-P-S-P-S-S-P-S-S-P-P-S-S-P-S-S-P-S
JUG-B does P-S-S-P-P-S-S-P-S-S-P-S-P-P-S-P-S-S
JUG-C does S-P-S-S-P-S-P-P-S-P-S-S-P-S-S-P-P-S

Notation 2: This notation tries to show who each person passes to and with which hand at which count of
the pattern. In this notation an “S” = self as expected.

R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L
A B C S B S S C S S C B S S B S S C S
B A S S A C S S C S S A S C A S C S S
C S A S S B S A B S A S S B S S B A S

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VII. Mirror Image Patterns
Mirror image patterns are passing patterns where the same thing is happening on the same side with respect to either
juggler, as if the juggler was looking in a mirror. The trick to all of these patterns is simply that one person starts with 2
clubs in their left hand while the other starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and all passes are crossed (diagonal) for both
jugglers. The other trick (to help avoid collisions) is to try and slightly off-set the passing in time so that one juggler is
passing just slightly later then the other juggler. Another option to avoid collisions is for one person to pass slightly wide
passes while the other passes slightly narrow passes. In an earlier section of this document I described the “7-Club Mirror
Image” pattern which is really the essence of all the mirror image patterns. The idea is that most all patterns can be
juggled in mirror style. Here are few to try…

1) 4-Count

2) 2-Count

3) 3-Count

4) Pass-Pass-Self

5) Ultimate

6) 7-Club Single-Spin

Just remember that one person starts with 2 clubs in their left while the other starts with 2 clubs in their right and
all passes are crossed (diagonal) for both jugglers. In other words, all passes are either R-to-R or L-to-L.

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VIII. Other Strange Patterns
Here we have a set of patterns that I have come across that are just interesting to try and include left and right
hand passing. In this next set of patterns I have started with more difficult patterns first and then work my way
toward some somewhat easier ones.

1) The Stupid Pattern

This is a rather difficult pattern but has a slightly easier variation which I will describe next. The basic notation for
this pattern is “diagonal-diagonal-handacross” (I’ll use “D” from now on to denote a diagonal or crosses pass and
an “H” to denote a handacross). Thus this pattern is simply D-D-H. Try to throw each pass (diagonal) high and
slow (lofty) since this pattern has a tendency to want to speed up very quickly. For a little more notation detail on
this stupid pattern, keep in mind that this is effectively an Ultimate pattern with each person starting with 2 clubs in
their right hand and 1 in their left. The pattern proceeds with R-L-R-L… but the handacross (while taking no time)
do use up one of the counts of the pattern effectively stuffing 3 counts of the pattern into only 2 counts worth of
time. The pattern is RD-LD-(R=>L H)-LD-RD-(L=>R H)… If that helps any.

2) The Less Stupid Pattern

For those brave enough to have tried the above pattern but found it a bit too challenging, here is a slightly easier
variation. In this variation I throw in 2 self’s to allow you a little time to regain some control over the pattern before
diving into another set of stupidness. The basic notation for this pattern is D-D-H-S-S. You’d be surprised how
much a few extra self’s can make a pattern go from very challenging to doable. Another reason this pattern is a
bit easier is because we are now only stuffing 5 counts of pattern into 4 counts worth of time; more counts and
more time overall. This pattern is RD-LD-(R=>L H)-S-S-LD-RD-(L=>R H)-S-S…

These next few patterns involve combining short strings of other patterns together to form a
new pattern

3) P-P-S-D-S-D-S
This and the next few patterns all start with one segment of Pass-Pass-Self followed by something else and then
you repeat the whole pattern. Some (most) of these patterns are symmetrical which are patterns I usually like
more than asymmetrical patterns. This first one is not really too hard. As this and the others are described in the
title simply as a sting of the instructions that make up the patter, this is Pass-Pass-Self followed with Diagonal-
Self-Diagonal-Self. The thing to watch for in patterns that have diagonal passes followed by selfs is that you will
usually do two moves/steps/beats with the same hand (R-R or L-L). In this pattern the hand sequence is R-L-R-L-
L-R-R-L-R-L-R-R-L-L repeat. This may help you to see the sequence better …

(P-P-S)-(D-S-D-S)-(P-P-S)-(D-S-D-S) repeat
(R-L-R)-(L-L-R-R)-(L-R-L)-(R-R-L-L) repeat

4) P-P-S-D-S-D
As it turns out, this is an asymmetrical pattern and simply tries to eliminate one of the “selfs” from the pattern
above.

P-P-S-D-S-D repeat
R-L-R-L-L-R repeat

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 5) P-P-S-D-S-D-H

6) P-P-S-D-D-H
While the “Stupid Pattern” (above) is really quite hard to keep it going, and the “Less Stupid Pattern” (above)
makes it quite a bit easier by adding 2 selfs, this pattern tries to make the Stupid Pattern a bit easier but keeps
things a bit more interesting by adding a sting of P-P-S to it. However this pattern is asymmetrical and thus has
only the 6 beats before it repeats and always leads with the right hand. To make it symmetrical, you could add a
self at the end or better yet you can remove one of the leading passes form the P-P-S. The sequence is like this
…

P-P-S-D-D-H repeat
R-L-R-L-R-L repeat

Variation 1 to make it symmetrical

P-P-S-D-D-H-S-P-P-S-D-D-H-S repeat
R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L repeat

Variation 2 to make it symmetrical

P-S-D-D-H-P-S-D-D-H repeat
R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L repeat

7) P-S-D-S
This pattern is not too hard and is symmetrical, it is only 8 beats until it repeats and has sort of interesting hand
sequence. It goes like this …

P-S-D-S-P-S-D-S repeat
R-L-R-R-L-R-L-L repeat

8) The Stover Conservatory or P-D-S-S

This pattern was discovered when me and a fellow juggler (Jason Stover) was just screwing around doing some
random passing patterns involving 3-count and P-P-S. Somehow we managed to stumble onto this pattern and
we thought it was kinda cool just the way it was. Somehow, which I haven’t quite figured out yet, I believe you
can feed this pattern to two feedies doing this pattern. The part I can quite figure out is what the feeder must do.
I know it is going to involve some hand-acrosses though. In some ways, this is just a variation on P-P-S-S which
is a simply asymmetrical pattern. This one is nice because it involves a hurry and is also symmetrical. It goes like
this …

P-D-S-S-P-D-S-S repeat
R-L-L-R-L-R-R-L repeat

The problem I’m having figuring out the feed pattern for this is that since it involves hurries I find that I either can’t
get the clubs into my hands coming for one feedie to start passing to the other feedie or I can’t figure out where to
put the hand-across in. I believe this feed pattern is either going to insanely fast for the feeder or amazingly slow
and simple (relatively that is). I’ve tried getting my feedies to pass in sort of off-time/off-beat/syncopated sort of
rhythm to make it work for me. If any one can figure this feed pattern out, please let me know, I’d love to be able
to do it. I feel funny naming a pattern that I came up with that I can’t quite do yet, but I’m thinking of calling it
“Kolinsky’s Kookies”.

9) The Lutkinsky
This pattern was first discovered by Jeff Lutkus and Nat Kinsey but was then quickly extended upon by myself to
come up with what I’m now calling “The Lutkinsky”. This pattern is for 2 people and 6 clubs. Like some other

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 patterns, in this pattern the partners are each doing something different. The basics of this pattern is that one
person is doing a series of crossed passes (diagonals) while the person is going just strait passes. The added
twist is that one doing the diagonal passes does two consecutive passes with the same hand. The other added
twist is for the one doing the strait passes and that is that after a set of 3 ultimate passes there is a hand-across.
So, here are the notations. Oh ya, one more thing, the guy doing the strait passes starts with 2 clubs in their left
hand while the other partner starts with 2 in their right.

L R L R>L L R L R L>R R
JUG-A (strait) P-P-P--H--S-P-P-P-–H--S repeat

R R L R L L R L
JUG-B (diagonal) D-D-D-----S-D-D-D-----S repeat

Note-1: There are no long gaps in this pattern. The hand-across takes virtually no time. I’m just trying to line up
the two notations above. The person doing the straits does have the hand-acrosses as an extra step (2 steps
actually) but since it happens almost instantly you can consider this to be a 8-count pattern for both players.
Finally, “R>L” indicates a right-to-left hand-across while “L>R” denotes a left-to-right hand-across.

Note-2: as an extension to the above pattern you can try switching the roles of each player after the self. In that I
mean after 4 counts the person doing the straits now does the diagonals and the one doing the diagonals now will
do the straits. This makes this pattern quite a bit more challenging (I mean fun) but is quite doable. My only
advise is that for the person switching from diagonal to strait, wait as long as possible before making your first
pass and then to make it extra slow and lofty. Otherwise this can become an impossible hurry for the one now
doing the two consecutive diagonals with the same hand.

10) 5-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-5
I love this pattern because it really quite easy but screws up so many people because of the number selfs at the
slow end. Basically the pattern goes like this. You start with a Pass on count 5 and then start counting your selfs
with each hand (1-2-3) then on count 4 you Pass again and then start counting selfs again (1-2) then Pass on 3
then 1 self and Pass on 2 then Pass again (on 1). You’ve now done the 5-4-3-2-1 part and are ready to start
counting back up. So now it’s a self then a Pass then 2 selfs then a Pass (3) then 3 selfs then a Pass (4) then 4
selfs then a Pass (5) and now start going (counting) back down. This is a really long pattern (25 beats). Also, if
this helps, you will do 2 passes with one hand and then 2 passes with the other hand. Of course the passes get
closer together on the way down and farther apart on the way up. Here is the notation…

5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5
5-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-1-2-1-1-2-1-2-3-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-5
P-S-S-S-P-S-S-P-S-P-P-S-P-S-S-P-S-S-S-P-S-S-S-S-P repeat
R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L-R repeat

11) Fast-Slow
This pattern is cool because each juggler is doing something different in terms of both their pattern and the speed
at which they juggle. I’ll have to break this up in terms of each half of the pattern and I’ll try to show how they fit
together. Basically one juggler will do 5 counts (fast) in the time the other juggler only does 3 counts (slow). The
SLOW jugglers will do P-D-S while the FAST jugglers does P-S-D-S-S. This is also symmetrical pattern which
also makes it cool. The final challenge for those daring enough it switch the roles (pattern) of the jugglers on the
fly while doing the pattern. In other words, FAST becomes SLOW and SLOW does FAST.

12) Keith’s 3-Count Feed

This is a cool variation on the traditional 3-count feed pattern taught to me by my friend Keith Leaf. In this pattern
which is for 3 people and 9 clubs, you stand in the standard feed positions with one person feeding the other two.
The feedies do just a regular 3-count pattern except for one thing, the feedie to the feeders right will pass all

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 passes to the feeders right hand (both left and right hand passes) and the feedie to the feeders left will pass all
passes to the feeders left hand (see figure below). The feeder has a more interesting variation of the normal 3-
count feed pattern. The gist of the pattern is still outside-outside-self-inside-inside-self but selfs are now all (R-to-
L handacross, selfs) and all passes to the feedie on your right are done with your right hand and all passes to the
feedie on your left are done with your left hand.

2
B B
R-to-L 5 R-to-L
3 = Handacross 6 = Handacross
Self 4 Self
A A
1

13) Random Ordered Patterns

In these patterns we try to introduce patterns that change on the fly based on club coding. What I mean
by club coding is that we start with a set of clubs all the same color but then swap out one club for one of
another color (five white clubs + 1 blue club). We’ll start with a simple 2-person pattern. We’ll say that
Jub-A starts with having the blue club somewhere in his hands (not necessarily the leading pass). Jug-A
will also control the pattern changes in that both jugglers will start with jugging a 4-count pattern but every
time Jug-A passes the blue club, the pattern will change to say, the 3-count pattern. The pattern will
continue then until Jug-A again passes the blue club (from either hand) whereby the pattern will switch
back to 4-count. Passing the blue club acts as a toggle to the pattern change.
Now, to jazz it up a bit you can use whatever set of patterns you want (4-count/2-count, 3-count/1-count,
PPS/Ultimate). You just have to pay attention to the rules you set like Jug-A always controls the pattern
changes or passing the odd club changes the pattern no matter who passes it. Next you can swap out
more white clubs for more blue clubs to cause the patterns to toggle more frequently. You can also
introduce other colored clubs with other rules. For example, 3 white clubs, 1 red, 1 blue, 1 green. Jug-A
controls the pattern switches. Start with 4-count, if Jug-A passes blue, start jugging 3-count, if Jug-A
passes red, start juggling 2-count, if Jug-A passes green, go back to 4-count.
Depending on the configuration and rules, you can get locked into a pattern. In which case it might take a
trick (double) to get out of it. Since there is no real pattern, I can not give a notation for any of these
patterns but the rules do give them some semblance of order as opposed to true random patterns were
any one throws whatever they want whenever they want to/from whatever hand the want. These true
random patterns can be fun but tend not to last very long. Since the rules give some order each juggler
can at least have some expectations of how the pattern is going to evolve and move forward.

Martins Psychosis
7-club Feed with 3 people and 11 clubs with all doubles ultimate for the feeder

IX. Simul Patterns

Simul patterns are a set of patterns similar in some fashion to synchronous ultimate patterns in that some of the passes
involve throwing 2 clubs (one in each hand) together at the same time (see 6-club Ultimate Synchronous). However,
these patterns differ in that the synchronous (or simul) passes are interlaced with other asynchronous self or pass throws
as well. This will cause the need for a hurry in that when you switch from asynchronous to the simul, you will need to
make one hand catch up with the other hand. Below are few examples to try.

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B
A
 1) 4-Count Simul Feed
This is a 3 person pattern with 9 clubs (3 clubs per person). In this pattern you will stand in the normal feed
position of one person feeding two others. While it is not necessary, it may be best if one of the feedies it
proficient at left hand passes to allow the feeder to pass the simul as either an outside pass to both feedies or an
inside pass to both feedies (see figures below). While in a normal 4-count feed pattern the feeder takes turns
passing to each of the feedies. Each feedie is doing a 4-count pattern while the feeder is doing a 2-count pattern.
In this pattern however everyone will be doing a 4-count pattern and both feedies will pass at the same time. This
is what requires the feeder to pass a simul. From figure-1 below, the feeder will start by passing an inside simul
while the two feedies will each pass, at the same time, to the feeder. Jug-A will start with 2 clubs in his left hand
and will do a left-hand 4-count pattern, passing each time to the feeders right hand. Jug-B will start with 2 clubs in
her right hand and will do a right-hand 4-count pattern. Now comes the tricky part. The feeder, with his remaining
1 club will do a self, catching the 2 in-coming clubs and transition them from synchronous to asynchronous, do 2
more selfs then transition back to synchronous to do the next inside simul pass to the feedies. This may seem
impossible but it is doable. It helps if the feedies do their self throws as slowly as possible to give the feeder that
bit of extra time to make those two transitions.

B B
3 Selfs

A A

Figure 1 Figure 2

The feeder must get in 3 selfs in between each simul pass. This will cause the feeder to do what is referred to as
both a Left-Simul and a Right-Simul. That is the hand that did the last self before the following simul. So,
assuming the feeder starts with 2 clubs in his right hand, then he will do a simul, followed by a R-self, (catching
the 2 synchronously in-coming clubs) followed by a L-self, then another R-self, followed by a simul. This time
doing a L-self, (catching the 2 in-coming clubs) followed by a R-self, then another L-self, followed by a simul. The
hard part is usually not catching the in-coming clubs but rather the transition from the selfs to the next simul thow.

There are many variations around this pattern. As figure-2 (above) shows, the feeder can throw all outside simul
passes, requiring Jub-B to do the Left-Hand 4-Count pattern while Jug-A now does the Right-Hand 4-Count
pattern. If neither of the feedies is capable of doing a good left-hand 4-count, the feeder can also pass the simul
to each of the feedies left hands as in a normal 4-count pattern (see fig-3 below). Another alternative is do a 3-
count variation whereby the feeder will alternate the simul pass to the feedies left and the right after just 2 selfs
(combine fig-3 and fig-4 below).

B B
2 Selfs

A A

Figure 3 Figure 4

2) LCM34
This is a very complex and difficult pattern. The patterns name refers to “The Least Common Multiple of 3 and 4”.
This pattern involve 3 people and 9 clubs in the standard feed positions of one feeder passing to (feeding) 2 other
jugglers. In this pattern, the idea is that one of the feedies is doing a 4-count pattern, while the other feedie is

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 doing a 3-count pattern. Since the lest common multiple of 3 and 4 is 12, as the patterns name refers, the feeder
will need to pass a simul every 12th count of the pattern while at the same time maintaining his sanity enough to
know how/when to pass to each of the feedies as they will be all staggered and off-set within the other 11 counts
of the pattern. This pattern will also involve hand-acrosses at two different points within the feeders pattern. As I
said, a very complex and difficult pattern. On a positive note, the only good thing about this pattern is that it
doesn’t start with simul which means one of the feedies will start with a self.

3) Simul Triangle
This is a very cool pattern for those interested in these simul type patterns. In this 3-person, 9-club pattern, you
stand in the triangle formation and everyone gets to take a turn doing the simul pass.

4) Parallel (Simul) Universe

Finally I have a relatively easy simul pattern for just 2 people and 6 clubs. This pattern also has some variations
for you to play with but the basic pattern is like this. Each partner starts with 2 clubs in their right hand and starts
with a normal right-hand fast start pass. This is then followed with a left-self and then a simul. Now in order for
each person to do the simul together (simul-simul), there must be some agreement as to who will pass wide and
who will pass narrow or outside vs. inside (see figure below). The pattern then continues with a right-self and the
a left-pass and then a right-self and then another simul. Then a left-self, then a right-pass, then a left-self, then a
simul. Get the idea. Here’s a notation …

RP-LS-SS-RS-LP-RS-SS-LS- repeat (SS = simul-simul, both jugglers do simul at the same time)

I hope you can see from this diagram why I’ve called this pattern “Parallel Universe”.
The variations to this pattern come in with regard to how many selfs you want to do in between each pass or
simul. Also you don’t really have to alternate with left and right hand passes, they can all be left or right hand
passes and in fact if one person alternates between a straight and diagonal pass and the other alternates
between the left and right hand pass the pattern will also work. To make it a bit harder (OK much harder), you
can eliminate all of the selfs and try to just do RP-SS-LP-SS-RP-SS-LP-SS-…

4-Person Feast w/ P-P-S

Tossing it Around
for 2 persons use 3,4,5, up to 6 clubs
for >2 persons there are many variations

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