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In
a Double Triangle, two people are in both triangles and the other
two people are in one triangle each. In Fig. 7, A and C are in both
triangles, while B is in the left triangle and D in the right one.
The passing sequence is only two beats long. On beat 1, A passes to
B who passes to C who passes to A-D has a self. On beat 2, A passes
to C who passes to D who passes to A-B has a self. Then just
continue alternating between these. A and C are each feeding two
people, while Band D are doing 4-count triangles, so A and C have
the harder parts.
The hard part comes from always having to receive from someone other than the person you're passing to, while feeding. In patterns like this, I find that the best thing to do is to concentrate on passing to the correct person on each beat. Then just don't expect a club back from that person but keep your view of everything open and catch whatever comes to you.
The
Shilow The
Shilow is a Double Triangle variation that we created this year at
the IJA's Winter Festival in Las Vegas. In fact, the pattern is
named after the room - the Shilow Room where Steve Gerdes, Jek
Kelly, Paul Kyprie and I did this pattern and its 13-club variation,
the Shilow Hilow. The normal Double Triangle
alternates between two triangles, as described above. But in the
Shilow, we make the pattern equally fair to all four people by using
all four different triangles that are possible with four people.
This way no one gets bored.
In
the Shilow, the first two passing beats are the same as in the
Double Triangle above. For the next two beats, we essentially turn
the Double Triangle ninety degrees and make the people who were
doing the 4count into the new feeders. Then we start over. The
result is that everyone's sequence includes three passes and one
self out of each four beats. Those three passes are done within the
three triangles that include the given person.
Fig. 8 shows where everyone passes on the four beats of the Shilow. The notation in the figure shows each person's passing sequence, with the letter "s" representing a self, "R" a pass to the person on your right, and "M" a pass through the middle to the person straight across from you. It helps to just memorize your own sequence until you can feel its rhythm. If you all remember your sequences, this is not a terribly difficult pattern.
Shilow
Inside and Shilow Outside Note that on each Shilow beat, one person has a self. By simply reordering the selves among the four people, we can create two more distinct sequences of four triangles passes, which I'll call the Shilow Inside (Fig. 9) and the Shilow Outside (Fig. 10). We'll see later why I've chosen those names.
In
the Shilow, jugglers A and C do the same passing sequence (though out
of phase): sRMR. Band D do two other sequences: sMRR and sRRM,
respectively. On the other hand, in the Shilow Inside, everyone does
the same sequence: sRRM. And in the Shilow Outside everyone does: sMRR.
(I'm ignoring the start here in describing the steady state sequences,
so that you can see the different sequences. Figs. 8, 9 and 10 show
particular starts you can use.)
We've
stuck to using only outside right hand triangle passes throughout. If
you include inside passes, you have eight possible triangles instead
of four, so you could construct longer sequences with those additional
possibilities. Add left hand passes, too, and you might have a
Nightmare. The
Shilow Hilow The
three Shilow patterns above are challenging mostly in remembering
where to throw and in finding the incoming clubs. Since there is
always one person with a self, we can add one more club to each of
three Shilow patterns, turn all the right hand selves into triple
passes, and thus create the Shilow Hilow, the Hilow Inside and the
Hilow Outside, respectively.
These
are tricky because you not only have to feed while receiving clubs
from someone other than the person you're passing to, but you have to
mix singles and triples and remember to look up for the incoming
triple.
Probably
the Hilow Inside is the easiest of these 13-club Shilow patterns.
That's because the angle between the incoming and outgoing triples is
smaller than in the Hilow Outside and because everyone does the same
thing, unlike the basic Shilow Hilow. The Hilow Inside and the Hilow
Outside are so named because of where you throw the triple-inside or
outside the formation.
In
the Hilow Inside, each person's sequence is lRRM, where the
"1" is a triple to the person on your left. The four of you
start at the four different places in the lRRM (see Fig. 9 and replace
each "s" with "1"). Just after you throw the
triple, you'll catch a triple from the person on your right. The
person who would have started with a self starts with the extra club,
which is thrown immediately as a triple when everyone else starts with
a single pass. As usual, for safety, keep those triples high and a
little outside of the receiver.
For
the Hilow Outside, replace each "s" in Fig. 10 with an
"r," which is a triple to the person on your right. For the
Shilow Hilow, replace each "s" in Fig. 8 with a triple to
the next person who has an "s." If
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