About passing.zone
Juggling alone is nice, but together it gets awesome!
Passing.Zone was born in 2018 with only a few videos filmed with Juli's compact camera.
In 2025, Lars, Lukas, Hoschy, Jenny and Juli decided it was time for a proper overhaul: a fresh look, a new tech stack, and — most importantly — real search and filtering for what had quietly grown into a library of more than 250 patterns. The new version went live at the start of 2026, and has been improving (and getting debugged) ever since. Our goal is simple: make complicated passing patterns available and accessible to jugglers all over the world!
While many people help shape and expand the platform, the main administrators are currently coordinating and maintaining Passing.Zone are:
Juli
The master mind behind passing.zone!
Without Juli, there would not be a passing.zone! It all started in 2013, when she grabbed her compact camera and started filming complicated patterns to get them home to her juggling club. Five years later, her friend Andi registered the domain passing.zone. The first passing.zone was born!
She teaches workshops regularly and loves nothing more than trying out new patterns — passing.zone is where that curiosity and all those experiments get to live!
Her favourite patterns are dumb-ways-to-die, Zippy, and Ambleds. Her goal is to juggle all the Ambled patterns!
Nerdy, nerdier, Lukas. Where notations and numbers are used, Lukas is not far away.
Whether it’s a script to calculate the compatibility between scrambles, a tool to determine beer patterns, or a graphical generator for 4-handed siteswaps as SVG. Nothing is too complicated.
When not pondering about the next cool passing theory, he loves throwing all kinds of passing patterns, with his favourites being 4-handed siteswaps and takeout patterns.
Lukas
Hoschy
The team’s resident Java ninja at heart — but for passing.zone, he’s happy to step out of the shadows for a while.
Though Java is his native language, he casually drops in to help with a bit of SQL here, a form there, a sprinkle of PHP when needed, or simply a touch of backend magic.
Not particularly picky about passing patterns in general, he seems especially motivated when beer patterns are mentioned.
Our data management and automation specialist! Doing things manually? Not his style. Why click twice when you can build a system that does it for everyone, forever?
And in patterns? Same philosophy. A zip? Unnecessary. Probably removable. While others are rushing and secretly panicking, he will for sure be the most chilled person in every pattern. But heaven help you if he gets bored — that’s when pirouettes and extra ticks start sneaking in.
He enjoys a wide range of patterns — but when it comes to clubs, he’s far more selective. Ultra lights are definitely his weapon of choice.
Lars
Jenny
From front-end finesse to colour-coded patterns — when there’s colour, a Jenny is not far.
Whether it’s refining the UX of passing.zone or crafting tiny badge icons that jugglers proudly collect, Jenny is all about shaping the front end into something that feels intuitive, playful, and clear.
She joined the passing.zone team in 2019/2020 — essentially by orbiting Juli until she became part of the system, winning everyone over with her infectious, pocket-sized energy :D
Her favourite patterns? Takeout patterns with a colour code, or anything with lots of movement and dancing. So when Jenny designs a pattern, expect flowing dancing dynamics, crazy walking paths, and — of course — a classic “Halt-Mal-Kurz” right in the middle.
We are a community-driven space dedicated to sharing knowledge, creativity, and innovation about passing juggling.
Everything you find here is built on a purely voluntary basis. Many passionate contributors invest their time and skills to create passing patterns, write articles, record instructional videos, and even develop applications that support the juggling community. What makes Passing.Zone special is this shared spirit: everyone contributes because they care about growing and preserving the art of passing.
