Note that when you have finished your five passes as the feeder, you have one more pass right away, as the new baseline feedee, and you start moving forward as you make that pass.

There is a time when the feedees need to move somewhat fast to get past each other. The baseline feedee moves forward and catches the first pass from the new feeder, waits for the second pass to go by, and then quickly moves toward the pivot. The pivot feedee backs up and drifts a little toward the baseline, catches the feeder's second pass, and then moves quickly side­ways behind the other feedee to get clear in time for the fourth pass.

 

One helpful hint is to count each feeder's five passes, so that you know exactly when a new feeder is taking over. Counting out loud helps everyone know when the feed is changing.

 

To get everyone back to their original starting points in Bruno's Nightmare requires each person to have fed twice, once from each end of the baseline, for a total of 30 passes. After you go through the 10 passes of Figures 7 and 8, jump back to the beginning of Fig. 7 (with the number of each juggler changing at that point).

 

Don't be disappointed if you can't make it all the way around on your first attempts. Just keep in mind the pattern's structure and the direction you go at each point: The feed always starts along the baseline, the baseline feedee starts moving forward, and the pivot feedee starts moving backwards to cross behind and become the next feeder.

 

In Conclusion ...

The above are only a few ways of involving movement in your juggling. But maybe they'll inspire you to become the Fred Astaire or the Ginger Rogers of the juggling world.

 

Would you like to see some unusual club passing patterns demonstrated at the next IJA festival? Would you like to demonstrate a unique pattern there? We will try to set up a forum at one time during the week for groups of passers to demo their neat stuff in the gym - much like has been done recently with the 3­ball demo. So practice those special patterns and bring your group to St. Louis next July.

 

(If you have any comments or suggestions for Juggler's Workshop, you can reach the editors at: Juggler's Workshop, Palo Alto, CA; or give one of us a call: Martin Frost or Michael Stillwell.)