4-handed siteswap Archives

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 …

Techno Manipulation Patterns

29th December 202419th December 2024 by Ian Chesser

We were inspired to add a manipulator to Techno and came up with four variations! These 8-club patterns were first juggled in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Lana Bolin, Ian Chesser and Omar Ramirez. We named our favorite variant, Techniquerque, after the city of invention itself.

Lazy Why Not About

10th November 2024 by Lukas

Manège à cinq

4th November 202415th August 2024 by Adrian Goldwaser

Manège à cinq is a version of Manège à trois with 2 extra manipulators.

More Take-Outs in 4-handed siteswaps

9th August 2024 by Cameron Ford

978-about, 975-about (holy grail about), tips and dreams

5 years ago Nicki wrote an excellent article summarising the progress which had been made on take-outs in 4-handed siteswaps: https://passing.zone/take-outs-in-4-handed-siteswaps/

There was some exciting progress made at the 2024 EJC, so I thought it was time for an update!

At Passout 2018/2019 in Krelingen Christian from Pittsburgh brought the idea of doing take-outs in a 4-handed siteswap and workshopped 726-about, “What’s that about?” and “Manège à trois” (786-about), which I really enjoyed. Christian also has a page summarising all the different takeouts in 4-handed siteswaps: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/takeouts.html

672-About

24th July 2024 by Juli

Doreen was looking for a nice and flowy 5 club base siteswap to -about on. 672 is a really nice choice. It’s easy but can still be nice with a few extra pirouettes and other beautifications.

Super Lazy 966-About

10th November 202424th July 2024 by Juli

The “Lazy” way to Siteswap-Abouts is a great adaptation to jugglers who can’t or won’t run around.

966-About with 5 jugglers is about as lazy as you can get!

Grosses Chaos

15th January 202415th January 2024 by Daniel Pels

Just a period 9 siteswap with 7 clubs. What seems to be a quite ordered siteswap when you look at the global notation becomes really chaotic when remembering what you have to do – welcome to the Great Chaos 🙂

Lazy 567-About

10th November 202413th August 2023 by Juli

The “Lazy” way to Siteswap-Abouts is a great adaptation to jugglers who can’t or won’t run around.

567-About is nice and easy even without a lazy juggler – and it’s still nice and easy with a lazy juggler!!!

Lazy 96677-About

10th November 202427th July 2023 by Juli

The “Lazy” way to Siteswap-Abouts is a great adaptation to jugglers who can’t or won’t run around.

And here’s for you, finally an easy siteswap to do the lazy way! As the 9 is being carried, the Runners only do 2-count and then have lots (zip-zip-zip) of time to to the carry.