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Page 7 May 1982
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The
Book of Club Passing Richard
Dingman of Boston, MA, is compiling club passing patterns for a book
he plans to publish on the
subject. Here's an early sample of his work.
The
following are excerpts from a club passing book in progress written
by Richard Dingman and illustrated by Judy Gailen. Hundreds of
passing patterns have been collected and studied so far, though the
book hopes to be more than a listing of patterns.
It
is intended as a step toward evolving a way of conceptualizing club
passing, and hopefully of developing more understanding of how
patterns are internally organized, created and interrelated.
The
author hopes to encourage club passing proficiency and originality
by consolidating possibilities in a systematic way and by so doing,
to suggest directions to explore. The book will be organized like this...
Two
persons: Basic configurations and variations; 2 person 6 club
(2p6c) patterns including simple counts, variations of simple counts
and complex counts; 2p3c patterns; 2p4c and 2p5c patterns; 2p7c
patterns; 2p8c patterns; 2p9c patterns; 2p10c patterns; 2p11c
patterns.
...and
similarly for three persons, four persons, five persons and six
persons, with pictures and lots of illustrations.
The
first excerpt is from the 3p6c section, the second from 3p8c.
Wheel
Steals Wheel
steals are beautiful, hilarious, aesthetic, full of laughter and
flurry, and often, no pattern is
accomplished. They go like this...
Three
(or more!) jugglers stand shoulder to shoulder facing outward. Each
juggler has a club in each hand, and starting independently, each
juggles a cascade with a hole (i.e. 2c in a 3c cascade pattern.) The
patterns should be done wide for reasons which will become clear.
At
any point that a hole reaches your right hand, you can reach with
that free right hand to steal the club approaching your right side
neighbor's left hand. However, this won't work unless you first
speed or slow your juggle to synchronize with your neighbor, who may
be adjusting his or her speed to frustrate you or to align with the
third juggler, who may be...etc.
Similarly,
when holes reach left hands, jugglers can steal from the left side
neighbor's right hand.
Cooperative
version: Synch rhythms so that simultaneous triple thefts can occur,
righty and lefty, as often as possible. Put in an odd colored club
to get a visual of overall club movements.
Competitive
version: Each juggler steals as often as possible, trying to fill up
into a 3c cascade. High elbows are quasi-legitimate defense (house
rules apply), narrow patterns earn and
deserve appropriate abusive group response. First person to fill up
a cascade three times wins, anyone losing all their clubs loses.
These
wheel steals improve with more people because it gets easier to
reach your neighbor's pattern .
There
are several clowny 3p8c take-away / give-away type patterns. Here's
one. (Figure 8's indicate cascades.)
A
and B are simultaneously dropping back to each other. Both passes fall
short, landing in C's hands. C's hands are empty and ready to catch
these passes because C has passed his or her tWo clubs, in the
appropriate directions (completing the drop backs), at the same time
that A and B are passing. Whether C drops back with the right hand and
up with the left, or vice-versa, depends on the group decision to run
the pattern righty or lefty.
If
A and B choose an odd count (ie, passing right handed and left handed
alternately). then C's role will also alternate between right hand
drop backs and left hand drop ups and vice versa. Doubles are usually
easiest to throw and catch.
Wrinkles:
C rotates, facing A on one passing count, B on the next. Or C moves in
a figure eight around A and B, alternating a line pattern with two too
short drop backs. Or...? |
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