PATTERNS Archives - Passing Zone

Dumb Ways to Die – for Dummies

23rd November 2025 by Rene

‘Dumb ways to die’ is a 4 person manipulator pattern invented by Ed that is based on the civil war feed. We applied the idea of the manipulation to a 2-count feed. This led to a quite simple pattern (´for Dummies´). It could be considered to be easier than the ´Scrambled V´.

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.

Chippy-Zippy

19th October 202319th October 2023 by Piet

Chippy-Zippy is a combination of two existing patterns. Zippy (invented by Dr. Ed) and Chippy (the Zippy variation with a chop). Because both manipulators manipulate on their own beats it works pretty good together. The base pattern, a 9 club PPS runaround stays the same as in Zippy and Chippy.

Zippy

18th March 20222nd October 2017 by Juli

Zippy is the new craze of 2017! Invented by Dr. Ed and taught at Passout in Cambourne, it went like fire all over German Conventions. Is it hard? Well…if you are used to ambidextrous manipulations as well as 9 club PPS runaround – no.

Zippy_1

22nd June 20226th June 2017 by Juli

As Zippy is such a big hit (and we love to juggle it), we thought to imitate Aidan and find additional patterns of a zippy series. Aidan found 27 Scrambled V variations by permutating the possible actions in a 9 club 2-count runaround. As the resulting Scrambled V variations have only 3 beats, 3 positions to manipulate (A,B & C) and 3 manipulations (substitute, intercept & carry), this stands to reason.