PATTERNS Archives - Passing Zone

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 …

6-handed: aa799

4th November 202416th July 2024 by Juli

6-handed siteswaps - aa799 is another one that is not very easy but quite nice

We managed to juggle this one at aichtal Drop GmbH Convention even though Juli was organizing - we first hated it, then it started working and we got round to kind of liking it.

Mayday Zap

16th July 2024 by John Zobolas

Mayday zap is a 6-handed siteswap (global siteswap: a37979999) for 3 people and 8 clubs. Juggled by John, Katia and Leo on a rainy day in Oslo, July 2023, near Mayday bar 🙂

Gare du Zap^2

22nd June 202219th March 2022 by Nicki

Gare du Zap is the 6-handed siteswap a8999 (global), where you locally throw “pass self zap self self”. The pass (3.3 P) should be in the air a little bit longer than a self, the zap is just a little bit faster that a self (2.7 P).

BrunEd

22nd June 202222nd October 2021 by Nicki

BrunEd is an ambidextrous 4-person manipulator pattern with five manipulation actions.
It is based on the idea of MinuEd, a three-person manipulation pattern based on Pass Pass Self, which was invented by Ed Clark back in 2015. The base pattern is Brunos Nightmare in Pass Pass Self.

Gare du Zap

22nd June 202229th August 2021 by Hoschy

Sorry Barbara. I simply forgot to post it on passing.zone. So for all others. This is already a little bit older recorded in spring 2021.

“Why Not” Triangle

22nd June 202230th August 2020 by Hoschy

Ever been in a fix when 3 people wanted to pass “WhyNot”?

Dust Devil in 3-count

23rd June 202231st July 2019 by Nicki

Dust Devil is a very nice walking pattern which was introduced to the passout mailing list in May 2018 by Dave and Athena Davis.

Brunickolf

19th May 202222nd July 2019 by Nicki

Brunicki

4th January 20206th January 2019 by Juli

Brunicki is a 4 person manipulation pattern based on Bruno´s 3-count and 6-count feed. It is technically ambidextrous but as the jugglers always stay on their side of the pattern, each jugglers´ part is always on the same hand.