PATTERNS Archives - Passing Zone

Revisiting 4-Count Roundabout (Mini Chopabouts)

3rd September 2025 by Rene

After a passing theory workshop by Hoschy (including the theory behind the 27 scrambled V patterns), Rene had the idea to apply the systematic approach applied to the Scrambled V to the classic 4-count Roundabout (sticking to only right-handed manipulations). This lead to 4 + 4 Mini Chopabouts. Most of these patterns have not been …

Walking Siteswap Feeds

12th August 2025 by Christian Kaestner

This EJC, I had a lot of fun exploring different walking siteswap feeds and this article tries to share some patterns and some general ideas behind them. In 2015, I learned from Staffan how to add an extra club to Bruno’s Nightmare, where the feeder passes straight doubles to one feedee and crossing doubles to …

Three Cylinder

21st January 202530th December 2024 by Juli

A small error in crossing wankle engine led to this beauty:
A (and A’) stays a “lazy” feeder forever while B, C and M change roles and hands continuously.

Techno Manipulation Patterns

29th December 202419th December 2024 by Ian Chesser

We were inspired to add a manipulator to Techno and came up with four variations! These 8-club patterns were first juggled in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Lana Bolin, Ian Chesser and Omar Ramirez. We named our favorite variant, Techniquerque, after the city of invention itself.

Lazy Why Not About

10th November 2024 by Lukas

Ambled Mini V (iC cA)

18th August 202418th August 2024 by Lukas

Ambled Mini V is the first pattern to add an extra club to Wiebke’s Mini Scrambled family of patterns, specifically to Mini V (#6). Since it is shorter than a “full” Ambled pattern and has an easier feeding sequence, we might start recommending Mini Ambleds to people who want to start learning manipulation patterns with double passes.

Similar to how there exist more than 27 Ambled patterns, there should also be more than 6 “Mini Ambleds”. Does anyone want to find them all? 🙂

Manège à cinq

4th November 202415th August 2024 by Adrian Goldwaser

Manège à cinq is a version of Manège à trois with 2 extra manipulators.

More Take-Outs in 4-handed siteswaps

9th August 2024 by Cameron Ford

978-about, 975-about (holy grail about), tips and dreams

5 years ago Nicki wrote an excellent article summarising the progress which had been made on take-outs in 4-handed siteswaps: https://passing.zone/take-outs-in-4-handed-siteswaps/

There was some exciting progress made at the 2024 EJC, so I thought it was time for an update!

At Passout 2018/2019 in Krelingen Christian from Pittsburgh brought the idea of doing take-outs in a 4-handed siteswap and workshopped 726-about, “What’s that about?” and “Manège à trois” (786-about), which I really enjoyed. Christian also has a page summarising all the different takeouts in 4-handed siteswaps: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/takeouts.html

Holy Grail About

4th November 20248th August 2024 by Cameron Ford

Holy Grail About is a takeout pattern based on the 4-handed siteswap 975, also known as Holy Grail.

It was first juggled for a whole round at the 2024 EJC by Lukas, Adrian and Cameron.

According to Nicki’s article on takeout patterns in 4-handed siteswaps Christian predicted that a round of Holy Grail About would be thrown before the end of 2019, but it took until 2024!

After achieving a round Adrian, Lukas and Cameron decided this was they hardest takeout pattern they have done yet (and also the best crowd reaction to getting a round of a pattern!)

978 About

4th November 20248th August 2024 by Cameron Ford

978 About is a takeout pattern based on the 4-handed siteswap 978.

It was first juggled for a whole round at the 2024 EJC by Adrian, Lukas and Cameron.

Doreen, Nicki and Cameron juggled it for a third of a round at Coastless Con 2019, as described here