The feed loom and the feed weave can be mixed with good effect. For instance, start by doing a feed loom until you all get back to where you started, then do a feed weave until you get back again, then a feed loom, and so forth.

ADDING LEFT-HAND PASSES

Even though most people do feeds right handed, we don't want to abandon the left hand. In almost any pattern where the left hands are doing selves, two people who are exchanging right-hand passes can agree also to exchange the immediately fol1owing left-hand clubs.

For instance, suppose you're feeding three people and you and the person in the middle like passing left handed. You can agree that you'l1 both pass left handed after each right-hand pass that the two of you exchange. In this case, your 8-count back-and-forth cycle as the feeder becomes (counting both hands): pass­self, pass-pass, pass-self, pass-pass. This is shown in Fig. 6, where the feeder's passes are numbered according to the counts that they come on.

If everyone likes passing left handed, then everyone can add the left-hand pass after the right. Or maybe al1 but one juggler like to pass with both hands. Just agree on who will add the left after the right.

In fact, there's no reason why you have to pass the left hand to the same person you just passed the right hand to. In our example feed above, the feeder and the middle feedee could agree to exchange al1 of their left-hand throws, while the feeder's right hand makes the usual back and forth sweeps. In this case, the feeder would be passing every club from both hands, but al1 the lefts would be going to the middle feedee.

INTERSECTING 1-CT FEEDS FROM ONE FEEDER

If we take the above idea a little further, we can al10w the feeder to feed three feedees with both hands, but with each hand starting at a different point. We'l1 start with the right hand feeding to the person on the right fol1owed by the left hand feeding the person on the left. Again, the feeder has no selves. The right hand sweeps to the left and back while the left hand sweeps to the right and back. The passes of the two hands do cross at one point, but they don't collide since they're thrown at different times.

The important part here is to have a mental model of the pattern, so that you, as either the feeder or a feedee, don't have to watch both feeds as they sweep separately. This makes the pattern much easier. The feedee who starts right handed will do a fast start and then a 5-ct alternating with a 3-d. The feedee who starts left handed does a right self, then a left pass, and then a 3-ct alternating with a 5-ct. The middle feedee's pattern is the easiest to remember: self, self, pass, pass. We always start with the right hand by convention.

The feeder's pattern is fairly straightfor­ward, if a little confusing at first. Starting with the right hand, it is outside-outside, middle­middle, inside-inside, middle-middle. That's eight passes in the cycle, with both hands pass­ing. The feeder's outside passes don't cross, but the inside passes do. What can make this sequence easier to execute is to remember that every other pair of passes goes straight to the middle feedee. See Fig. 7, where again the feed­er's passes are labeled with their counts.

For a more complex pattern, try this with four feedees instead of three. It becomes only a little harder for the feeder, but the feedees will probably want to memorize the counts of the 12-count cycle on which they should pass. That can be done by slowly counting off the passes of the cycle (while not actually juggling).

TWO-FISTED FEED, INSIDE OR OUTSIDE

This is another interesting feed involving passing with both hands. The feeder passes to two people: right handed to one feedee and left handed to the other. The feeder normally pass­es every club from both hands (a 1-ct for the feeder and a 2-ct for each feedee). But if that seems very hard, try passing half as many, with the feeder doing pass, pass, self, self and each feedee a 4-ct. It's convenient for everyone to start with two clubs in the right hand, in which case the left-handed feedee starts with a right self, followed by a left pass.

There are two ways to do this pattern; the feeder can make either inside throws or outside throws. Probably the easier way to do it at first is with inside throws. With the inside feed, the feeder passes right handed to the feedee on the feeder's left and left handed to the feedee on the right (Fig. 8). All of the feed­er's passes go between the feedees. In fact, both the right and left passes from the feeder can go to approximately the same place, leav­ing the feedees to fight over who will catch which ones (time and empty hands usually resolve this question unambiguously, until there's a drop).

In the outside two-fisted feed, the feeder makes all outside throws, passing right hand­ed to the feedee on the feeder's right and left handed to the feedee on the left (Fig. 9). Now the feedees' passes cross, more or less in front of the feeder's face, but if they are timed correctly, there shouldn't be any collisions. Be careful, however, when working on this form of the feed, as a collision can send two wild clubs toward the feeder.