Maria’s Why Not vs. Popcorn Walking Feed

Maria used a different trick in her pattern to avoid switching hands. It is odd-length for A so would repeat on the other side, but here a 7 is used to indicate a self to the same hand: C’s 7-self on the last beat is thrown from the right hand and followed with a right-handed throw as B. (In some of these patterns, this is technically a 7x rather than a 7, but which one it is depends on the specific hand order and position of the throw. Technically, this pattern has a 7 whereas the two above have a 7x. Unless using a siteswap validator that tracks hands, distinguishing this seems to add more confusion than it helps).

There are several ways to handle this 7 to the same hand: C could throw a heffling as the 7 (single spun, low heff; this is the equivalent of the 4x in ambled patterns), could juggle faster to squeeze in an extra self, or could juggle slower to skip the 7 entirely. Since there are already so many selfs in this pattern for walking, instead of walking on a 6-count with a heffling, walking on a slightly fast 7-count works well in this pattern, but also juggling on a very slow 5-count works (done by Ludivine in the video)

On another note, in this pattern C walks (clockwise) rather than B. This is not strictly necessary but works well here to have better throwing angles for the feeder while keeping a right-handed start for A and B. Here is an alternative version, where B walks as usual, but better passing angles are achieved by having A and B start left-handed: