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 …

AMVOS

11th November 2024 by Juli

We were looking for a pattern for 5 jugglers without much running and as little manipulation as possible. Well, we managed! Ambled Mini V on socks is a very chill “on socks”.

Killer Bunny About

28th August 202327th August 2023 by Philip

In every manipulation pattern, an intercept must always be followed by a carry. Or… must it?

Killer Bunny About is a lab-grown pattern that was designed specifically to answer this question that had baffled passing nerds for centuries. If you want to know the answer, go ahead and juggle the pattern (or simply watch the video). The answer might surprise you!

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).

Der eilige Wanderwaschbär (The hasting hiking racoon)

22nd June 202213th February 2022 by Jenny Matthiesen

On the passing Con in Göttingen, Lisa showed us a nice pattern from Austria (from Wolfgang Schebeczek). The pattern comes with the nice twist of throwing two clubs simultaneously, while the rest of the pattern stays asynchronous. The walking pattern follows the standard counterclockwise change.