PATTERNS Archives - Passing Zone

Novaesian Waltz

28th October 2025 by Rene

The Novaesian Waltz is the 3-count version of the Phoenician Waltz. The manipulation differs only in the carry. In the Phoenician Waltz, the second pass of the pass-pass-self base pattern is carried. The second throw in a 3-count is a self. Hence, in the Novaesian Waltz the manipulation starts with carrying a self. The Novaesian …

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

Wiebke’s Waltz

4th August 202425th July 2024 by Cameron Ford

Wiebke’s Waltz is a Phoenician Waltz inspired take out pattern on a walking pps feed (the same base pattern as zippy)

It was developed and presented at the 2023 coastless con along with variants in the “wedding waltz” family.

In the pattern, the carry and steal of the subsequent substitution are replaced with a ‘clink’, to toast the Happy couple. This is followed by a phoenetitian waltz turn for another substitute, and a phoenetitian waltz style intercept in preparation for the next clink.

672-About

24th July 2024 by Juli

Doreen was looking for a nice and flowy 5 club base siteswap to -about on. 672 is a really nice choice. It’s easy but can still be nice with a few extra pirouettes and other beautifications.