Meanwhile, here is what the feedee headed for the pivot point does. This feedee responds with normal passes back to the old feeder after passes one and three and the usual selves after passes two and four (which go to the other feedee). After the fifth pass, however, the pivot feedee does another right-to-Ieft self, this one being a double spin. The extra spin allows the feedee to change from being out of sync with the old feeder to being out of sync with the new feeder.

 

The feedee who is becoming the new feeder has a fairly straightforward sequence. That feedee, who goes behind the other feedee, responds with normal passes back to the old feeder after passes two and four. Then on what might be considered a response to the old feeder's fifth pass, the rear feedee becomes the new feeder and throws pass number one short to the old feeder (who is now the first feedee).

 

Thus each feedee only makes two passes to the feeder, while the feeder makes five passes, and that adds up to nine counts per cycle.

 

There are two things to remember. The feeder's fifth pass is along the baseline, as is the sixth (which is really the first response to the new feeder). And the pivot feedee does a double-spin self while making the turn.

 

That double self can actually make the turn easier, at least when you are turning to your right. You might find the double is a little difficult when turning left (some people find turning left harder in general). In that case, make sure you throw the double from well inside your pattern. Another possibil­ity is to throw a left double self instead of a right double self, when turning to the left; throw the left double one count before you

would have thrown the right double self.

 

Six-Person Double Bruno's Nightmare

This is really just two Bruno's Nightmare patterns with their baselines adjacent (Fig. 4). The two patterns are done in sync but are in­dependent except that you can add a couple of exchanges of clubs between corresponding idle feedees in the two patterns - feedees who would otherwise be throwing selves.

 

One feeder's portion of the double Bruno is shown in beats 1 through 5 of Fig. 4 (the next five beats are the mirror image of these). The solid lines represent the regular Bruno passes, and the dot­ted lines show optional extra passes that can be exchanged between the two halves.

 

The easiest extra pass to add is that shown (dotted line) on beat 5, where it is thrown by the rear feedees after they've emerged, just before they become the new feeders. The extra pass on beat 2 is also not difficult to add, but be sure to lead the receiver of this pass as you move away from each other. The extra pass on beat 3 requires you to emerge quickly from be­hind the front feedee; this pass is more easily made when you are emerging on the right (beat 3 as shown) than when emerging on the left (mirror image of beat 3), assuming you're passing right handed.

 

Try these extra passes one at a time until you're comfortable with them. Actually, each corresponding pair of jugglers from the two halves can agree to do any group of the extra passes without affecting (or even knowing) which extra passes the other pairs will do.

 

7-Club 1-Count Pass-Pass-Self

A few months ago, Brendan Brolly of Leeds, England, asked if there were a 7 -club 1 -count pass-pass-self (PPS) pattern for two people. The first solution was from Ed Carstens, who came up a pattern that has one person passing only singles and the other passing doubles and triples. We tried Ed's pattern at the IJA Winter Festival in Las Vegas and had trouble because the triples would often hit the ceiling. But at the festival I came up with a PPS pattern containing no triples, only singles and doubles. Since these patterns are easy to describe, we'll explain both below.

 

Here's my 1-ct PPS pattern without any triples. The person starting with two clubs in each hand throws two diagonal double passes (right to right, then left to left) followed by a right self. The person with three clubs (two in the right) starts at the same time but with a right self, followed by a left to right (straight) single and then a right diagonal double (right to right). After three counts, both jugglers repeat their first three throws in mirror image. The doubles, which are all diagonals, should be thrown from slightly in front of the leg to somewhat out­side the shoulder to prevent collisions.

 

Summary:Juggler A: double, double, self; B: self, single, double.

 

Ed's 1-ct PPS pattern also has the two jugglers starting at the same time. The person with two clubs in each hand throws two singles straight (right to left, then left to right) followed by a right self. The second person, with two clubs in the right and one in the left, passes a diagonal double (right to right), then a straight triple (left to right) followed by a right self. Again, after three counts, each juggler repeats in mirror image.

 

Summary: Juggler A: single, single, self; B: double, triple, self.

 

Each first single should be thrown a little outside and high so that the triple can be thrown from under and inside the single without hitting it.

 

8-Club 1-Count Pass-Pass-Self

In trying to create a 7 -club PPS pattern, I inadvertently came up with this 8-Club PPS pattern using all doubles. One juggler, say A, makes only diagonal passes (right to right and left to left) while juggler B always passes straight (right to left and left to right) - see Fig. 5.

 

The jugglers start with two clubs in each hand. Juggler A starts first, with B responding a mere one-half count later (that's a very small delay). All the passes are doubles. This sequence from the start is pass-self­pass, done like this: right diagonal, left self, right diagonal; then mirror: left diagonal, right self, left diagonal. Juggler B starts very slightly later and does pass-pass-self this way: right straight, left straight, right self; then mirror: left straight, right straight, left self. This is a fairly fast pattern, so you might try to slow it down a little by throwing high lofty doubles.

 

8-Club 2-Count Pass-Pass-Self

We'll finish with another 8-club Figure 5 pass-pass-self pattern, this one in a right-handed 2-count. This fast pattern comes from Mike Stillwell and John Creveling of the Jongleur Jugglers. Each person passes only straight triples (right to left). The first person's starting sequence (for the right hand) is pass, self, pass (then repeat).

 

The second person starts one count later (same time as the other's first left self, with the right hand doing pass, pass, self. You'll need to make the one self pretty fast in order to be ready after it to catch an incoming triple

 

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