Start by having each person pass directly across to the person opposite in the other row. With an odd number of people, the one extra person just does a self, fol­lowed by feeding the opposite row. Assume we're feeding from left to right.

After each pass, everyone who has another feedee turns a little to the right to pass to that next person. Anybody who has no such next feedee (on the right) does a quick out and in and then starts the feed over again from the new row.

After you change sides, your first pass from the new side is always to the nearest per­son, on the left end of your old row. With an even number of people, there are always two people changing sides at a time, then one pass after which no one changes. With an odd number of people, there is always one person changing sides after each pass.

Figure 3 shows the wheel for four people as it goes through one rotation. Dotted lines show passes and arrows indicate movement. Note that in the last part of Fig. 3, everyone is back to passing with the same person as in the first part, four passes earlier. Look particu­larly at the passes made by juggler 4, to see what each person does, namely, throws to jugglers 1,2,3,4 in succession.

You can also start the wheel with one person feeding all the rest. Simply apply the rule that when you run out of people to feed, you do a quick out and in on your final pass and then feed all the people on the other side. In fact, you can start the wheel with any number of people on each side, with everyone making parallel adjacent feeds of the other side. Some people may have to start selves.   This pattern is called the wheel be­cause, as people change sides, the direction of the passes rotates. Notice that it has rotated about 90 degrees after the four passes in Fig. 3.

The Clock

Let's digress to a pattern very similar to the wheel, but with virtually no movement except turning in place: the clock. Like the wheel, the clock can be done with any number of jugglers (but 4 to 6 is a good range). The formation is a circle of equally spaced jugglers, and the pattern for each juggler is just like the wheel. Each person feeds the entire group of jugglers, say from left to right around the circle, then does one self (this replaces the out and in of the wheel) and starts over.

To start the clock, just pick any pair of jugglers to start passing together. At the same time that they are starting, pairs of people on each side of the initial pair should also start passing. If there are an odd number of people, one person is left over and starts with a self.

Thereafter, each person just continues passing to people around the circle in a clockwise direction. One hard part is turning from the extreme right to the extreme left while doing one self, especially in a large clock. Less experienced jugglers might simply stop juggling during the turn to make it easier. Also with large clocks, the passes across the clock face can become somewhat long (use a lot of arm movement and very little wrist to make those passes long without overturning them).

If you have an experienced group and an odd number of people, you can add one extra club to the clock to get rid of that pesky self - it is replaced by a triple. This idea was suggested by Rob Stolzenberger of New Jersey. In this variation, everyone starts just as in. the clock, except that the person who would have had an initial self as four clubs and starts with a triple. The triple goes to the next person who would have had a self. That person in turn throws a triple instead of a self, and so forth. With five people, you throw your triple to the second person on your right and catch a triple from the second person on your left. It takes practice to catch those incoming triples, which have to be thrown pretty accurately.

3-Ct Feed Outs and Ins

 Back to the moving patterns.  These days a lot of people are discovering the fun of  passing with both hands, so let's extend the quick outs  and ins to the 3-ct feed. This was suggested by Orange Jugglers Carolyn and Mike Hatalski and Steve Gerdes.

As a reminder, a 3-ct feed has two feedees each doing a 3-ct with the feeder (alternating R- and L- passes). The feeder's pattern is pass-pass-self, most easily visualized as inside-inside-self, outside-outside­self. (See Tips and Tricks in Juggler's World, Vol. 40, no. 3.)

We simply add quick outs and ins by having any feedee leave on a pass and come in on the other side, next to the former feeder.

Since the 3-ct feed is not symmetric around the feedees, the hand you come back in on is different for the two feedee positions. When you go out as the second feedee, you come back in on the same hand as you went out on, a quick 4 counts after you went out (see Fig. 4). When you go out as the first feedee, you come back in on the hand opposite the one you went out on, a leisurely 5 counts after you went out (Fig. 5). Since you can go out on either a R pass or a L pass, you can reverse the R's and L's of Figures 4 and 5 to see the patterns started on the other hands.