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One thing to notice here is that the person throwing doubles can now easily see those doubles landing. So you can really perfect your doubles here. Also, avoid letting the singles get too high and thus overturned.

SEVEN SINGLES

Once you and your partner can both do both parts of seven singles and doubles, the step to seven singles is not too big. Keep the singles pattern slow by making sure you throw relatively high slow singles - certainly no lower than you would throw six singles, and preferably slightly higher with a slower spin. Again, try to look at where your throws land. That's not too hard here since you're catching singles. Keep your passes outside your partner's shoulder.

TRIPLES IN A 4-COUNT

Here's a good pattern for learning to throw triples. Both jugglers do the same thing, but out of phase. You pass every other righthand club, with triples. To start, the person with four clubs (two in each hand) throws a triple pass. At the exact same starting moment, the other person throws a self. After that simultaneous start, each person simply alternates between triple passes and normal right-hand selves.

Watching your triples land is quite plausible here, so do it. With a self after each pass, you'll find there's a fair amount of time for recovery. But keep your triples nice and high, spinning no faster than normal singles, in order to keep the pattern slow and easy.

11 CLUB FEED WITH TRIPLES

If you add one more person and four clubs, you can extend the 7 -club 4-count to a feed. The feeder's pattern remains the same: triples every other. The feeder just feeds the other two people, with triples. Everyone starts at the same time, with the feedee having only three clubs starting with a self.

SEVEN SINGLES AND TRIPLES

This is like singles and doubles, but with triples instead of doubles. One person throws every club as a triple and the other every club as a single (Fig. 2). There are no right-hand selves. For now, have the person with four clubs start and throw the triples. The person throwing singles should start passing exactly with the throw of the second triple.

Like the 7-cIub 4-count above, this is a good one for learning triples. Here you can throw triples while essentially staring at your partner's catching hand, so that you can adjust your throws to make them perfect. When you see a triple land, however, the next triple is already in the air and it's too late to adjust that one (unless you're a really amazing juggler!), so your partner may get a couple of poor throws before you fix things. But keep watching the catches and you'll find it fun. If you're throwing the singles, make sure to keep your passes from drifting up high - that's a common tendency when you're looking way up.

SWITCHING AMONG SINGLES, DOUBLES AND TRIPLES

Now that you can do seven clubs with various combinations of singles, doubles and triples, try to change from one type of throw to another without stopping and maybe even without warning your partner. For instance, if you're doing seven singles, it's easy for one of you to switch into doubles with no warning the pattern just slows down. Then switch from doubles into triples, slowing things down more.

The harder change happens when going to a lower throw, say from triples back to doubles. Of course that speeds up the pattern, but that shouldn't be a problem if you can do the basic faster pattern that you're switching into. But since the lower pass arrives early relative to the previous throw, try to delay the first lower pass as much as you can. This has the effect of splitting the speed-up between you and your partner. You can also throw that first lower pass a little higher than it might otherwise be (with slightly slower spin, too), to slow it down a little. This splits the speed-up between one moment and the next. Eventually, each of you should be able to change among singles, doubles and triples at will (Fig. 3).

TRIPLE-SINGLE 4-COUNT

If either you or your partner can juggle four clubs in a triple-single pattern (with the right hand throwing triples to your left and the left throwing singles), try this right-handed passing variation. One person starts with four clubs and alternates double passes with triple selves. The other starts with three clubs and alternates double passes with normal single selves. The whole pattern starts just like seven doubles, with the four-club person passing first (Fig. 4).

This is fairly easy for the person who starts with three. The difficulty is for the fourclub juggler to keep the triple selves high and under control while alternating them with lower double passes. The person with three clubs can help out by throwing doubles so that they land about where the triple selves are coming down. You may have to vary the height of the doubles a little to make the timing even for the four-club person (depending on the height of the triples).

TRIPLE-SINGLE 11 CLUB FEED

If we add one more person and four clubs to the above triple-single 4-count, we get an unusual club feed. The person with three dubs in the preceding pattern becomes the feeder and actually has the easiest role, just passing doubles alternately to the two feedees. Each feedee does the same thing as the person with four clubs in the above pattern: alternate between double passes and triple selves.

To start this 11-club feed, one feedee passes a double and the feeder responds one count later with a double to that feedee (just like with only two people). The second feedee starts one count after that, with a double to the feeder. Then everybody just alternates between their two types of throws. The timing of the passes is shown in Fig. 5. For more fun, add more feedees.

TRIPLE, DOUBLE, SINGLE

Here's another variation of the triplesingle 4-count. Instead of adding another person, we just let the two jugglers pass the extra club back and forth, resulting in a beautiful pattern. Each juggler executes the following sequence (but out of phase with your partner): triple self, double pass, single self.

The person with four clubs starts by passing a double, and the other responds one count later with a triple self. Then the first person throws a single self, and the second person passes a double. Finally the first person throws a triple self, and the second person does a single self. Now we're back to the beginning of the pattern. The effect is that a triple pops up above one juggler, then above the other, then above the first, and so forth. Note that each juggler just follows the sequence triple-double-single, with only the double being a pass. If you can control your triple selves, you can do this pattern, and you only have to make one triple out of every three throws.

SEVEN CROSSING

This pattern is good for learning how to pass seven clubs left handed. Why, you say, should anyone bother to learn seven left handed? Because there are many interesting combinations with two or more people that require at least some left -handed passing, and, furthermore, because you don't want to become far unbalanced by failing to develop your left hand's juggling capabilities just because most people are right handed. Now that that's settled, here's seven crossing.

In this pattern, both people are throwing diagonal doubles, but one person is passing right handed and the other left handed (Fig. 6). The passes go from the right hand to the right hand or the left hand to the left hand. Because seven is odd, you're passing at different times, so the clubs don't collide - they pass through the middle alternately. They do however come relatively close, so be sure to keep the passes evenly spaced and keep your passes going to just outside your partner's shoulder.