Recap of Passout Goirle
2025 - 2026

As the same procedure as last year, the PassOut community once again came together at the end of the year to share our love of passing and celebrate the New Year.

This year, around 80 passers started again, this time in the 'active stay' in Goirle, Netherlands, heading into the year 2026. From the hall, you could see into the common rooms and vice versa, which often made it easier to find people willing to pass.

So once again, people juggled day and night.

When people were not busy drinking tea or eating, they defused bombs or played other games in the chillout-area like Tichu, Backgammon, Dumb ways to die and others. But the board game ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ wasn't as much fun as the Passing Pattern. On another table, one could almost always see people completing the 5040-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Piet and Mees were not only busy with the puzzle pieces but also with a special task that kept them occupied with Cameron's Period 55 Extendable Siteswap Puzzle Workshop. They tried for several nights until they managed to complete the Period 110 pattern one morning at around 7 o’clock.

After managing this, they danced with joy, nearly as beautiful to watch as the daily salsa rueda de casino-round in the afternoon.

But also another dance was a highlight this Passout: Macarena in various forms-

The passing pattern ‚Minued' could be seen here and there, and as Wolfgang Siller says: ‘When you do Minued, and it works, you see purple elephants.’

There was a new idea with workshops on patterns with one less club, and Minued was used as an example with the one-handed Macarena. Of course, the classic Macarena dance was a must at the New Year's Eve’s dance party. Already in the new year, there was a workshop on a pattern called 'Macarené' and last but not least, on the last day, people invented a similar pattern based on ‚Macarené' with one less club and a pirouette;  this pattern was considered ‘silly enough for the last evening’. To top it off, the real Macarena dance could be seen combined with passing.

As the T-Shirt already shows, cocktails were an important part of the programme:  Mees and Piet presented some very tasty siteswaps to us, and we learned that adding more ice (represented by 2's) makes passing cocktails easier.  So whenever you struggle with your 9697882, try adding some 2s (ice) ;)

Every evening we enjoyed delicious food by the caterer with dessert. The dessert was the same dessert every day, and it remained a mystery until the end what was actually in it. Additionally, there was international food with plenty of spreads, cheese from France, Hummus from Israel, Pandoro from Italy, and Olliebollen from the Netherlands.

New Year´s Eve

As usual, everyone came together to add their own special touch to New Year's Eve. We had a tasty meal, lovely decorations, and a dinner for one viewing. This year's New Year's Eve held special significance for Toto and Ruth—they were celebrating 25 years together! Josef and Jenny organised a  pub quiz, which kept some people quite puzzled:

Here are also some statistical facts about us.

From about 90 people present during New Year's Eve:

It was not necessary to leave the building for one second, but if people wanted, they could enjoy the snow on the second-to-last night and the days that followed, while out walking. Also, a snow-angel, a snowman and a snowdog visited the venue from outside.

This dog was not the only not-real animal on the Passout, as here and there, Animal Crossing (a passing pattern with 7 passers, kittens, puppies and a unicorn) could be seen, and Alex was followed by several animals

 while the animal flow.

For other movements than juggling, there were several morning runs and one park run in the snow, without a really organised park run. And for office workers and other people willing to move their muscles, there was the ‘mobility and control’ workshop in the sitting area.

After dinner, there was always the possibility to try or train some period patterns - from 3 to 7. At least 14 passers participated in the Speed passing for passers at Passout: 10-club speed passing, which gave a wonderful picture of a multitude of clubs thrown at the same time.

For people willing to pass with more people (and actually much less thrown clubs), there was two times the „Halbgötterball“ -  the combination of two Götterbällen for a total of 10 persons.

Of course, also many rings in a small number of hands were thrown, and there was a workshop with an introduction and useful tips on juggling with rings.

On the way from the hall to the dining room, but also in the centre and next to the New Year’s party, there was time and space to think about Barbara Weck, who passed away in December 2025 and would have attended this Passout, as many other Passouts and other conventions. There was Barbara's memory corner with Barbara branches, a candle with a ship (to show her other passion, sailing) and photos.

Thanks to Toto and his team, there was every evening a very entertaining workshop-presentation with, as always, an abundant variety of workshops, with only some of them:

• Cocktails  Mees and Piet presented some very tasty siteswaps for us to sample
• Wiebke's Waltz
• Dumb ways to die and dumber ways to die
• Shiva Passing (windmill)
• Extendable siteswaps Cameron designed some puzzle cards with short four-handed siteswap which can be gradually extended.
• sideswipe walking feeds
• Berlini-weave
• Why Not About
• Passing-Fit as a passing answer to Juggle-Fit
• chipmunk passing
• symmetric synchronous patterns (techno and similar)
• TechNo About
• Macarene
• Workshop on 7 Club Synchron PPS by Uwe:

Further, Alberto gave us an introduction to gravitational waves or as others would claim, "a presentation about screensavers".

Thanks to the awesome organisers of this PassOut, who were already busy organising another big juggling event last year: the wejc 2025