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´.

Cold Shoulder

18th April 202514th September 2024 by Wiebke Schnapper

Cold Shoulder is a new pattern that copies the manipulation of the regular roundabout into a three count base pattern. After a bit of fooling around with different styles of manipulation we came up with a version that doesn’t have zips, therefore contains a magic club that is never thrown – the perfect attribute to make it a beer passing pattern, or in our case an ice cream passing pattern.

Clean your Clubs!

22nd July 202227th August 2020 by Juli

Playing around with the “Ice Cream Factory” that is “Ivy” on “V”, we noticed a “magic club” that is never thrown. Usually that means we´ll get the beer out, soon… Well, there being a pandemic on the go, we decided to not break all rules and drink from a single bottle but to rather clean our clubs before handing them to the next person. Enjoy!

“Sascha”

22nd June 202211th October 2019 by Juli

Sascha was a very nice surprise at ejc. He showed up at the “Passing & Drinking” Workshop and immediately asked whether we were interested to try a pattern. He had seen and memorized the pattern from the youtube video “Prechac with my Friends” by Danielfausto, but lacked partners to try it with.

Ringelrum

19th May 202231st July 2019 by Hoschy

3 1 1p 2 3p “Floyd” – drinking

22nd June 202226th June 2018 by Hoschy

Don’t get confused by the active 2. It is technically a 3 1 1p 2 3p variation.

Shamrock – drinking

27th January 201926th June 2018 by Hoschy

Rum Bee

13th March 202213th July 2016 by Juli

Stern mit Loch und Saufen oder auch Shoting Star

22nd June 202228th December 2015 by Juli

For Christmas, the very first JIU crew got together again and we finally did that one video I was looking forward to for about a year: the five point star with 4 people, a vacant space to run into and a table of shot glasses with rum in the middle. The German name is derived from the non-drinking pattern name “Stern mit Loch und Laufen” and the English name comes from the original “shooting star”. Cheers and Enjoy!

RUM BEE

19th March 202218th October 2015 by Juli

This pattern is the scrambled variation known as “B”. In Britain, it´s also known as the “Honey Bee” and the counting goes “Sun, rain, flowers” instead of “1,2,3”. During the carry you´d call “honey” and the bee follows the carry, buzzing. Well, the little bee got tired of all that “sun, rain and flowers” stuff – and as all clubs in the scrambleds are magic, at least here the carry can easily be a bottle and it is always neat if a juggler runs after a bottle, right? So, the little bee is now a cheerful alcoholic drinking to the health of its friends…