The Karamazov Rotating Feed

 

This is a feed pattern performed by the Flying Karamazov Brothers for the past two years. Each of the five jugglers gets to throw passes and to receive passes as the feed progresses.

 

The Karamazovs do the feed with every throw, but you could do it with every others or every thirds to practice. It can also be done with fewer or more jugglers.

It begins with juggler 1 facing the other four and passing down the line from juggler 5 to juggler 2. Immediately after receiving a pass from juggler 1, juggler 2 takes a step to the left, the line steps right and juggler 1 steps left to join them.

 

Juggler 2 is then facing everyone else and begins feeding them by passing to juggler 5. The footwork takes some getting used to, but the pattern should be easy enough for most competent club passers to accomplish. The notation for the pattern is this, with each pair of numbers representing the jugglers passing to each other at that moment: