Oscar 53642

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This is a 4 club pattern for which one stands pretty close together, so one can hand over a club to the other person.

The pattern also contains an unusual self-zip, during which one starts holding the club on the fat side, so one can put the handle into the other juggler's hand.

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Sequence:

A 1|1 pass   self   zip  give  flip
B 1|1    give   flip  pass  self  zip

Because the pattern contains 5 different throws on 5 beats and because it contains unusual throws, that one usually doesn't do, the pattern is difficult to learn.

But luckily, there is a magic club on the pass and the other clubs also have separate orbits, so one can

a) do color coding and

b) first start learning the roles of the clubs separately

Practice this separately:

1) the "Golden" Club.

This club is precious, so we never thtow it. It is always just handed over. at one point as a zip, then it is handed over to the other person.

Ond juggler hands over the club straight, the other hands it over diagonally. Then it is zipped to the body, so we can hand over the handle again. If you do everything correctly, you should receive the club back in the same hand with which you handed it over.


2) you can now combine the "golden club" with the pass. The passing club should also get a unique color and it only ever is thrown as a pass. The pass goes to the hand that gives you the golden club, the golden club goes to the hand throwing the pass. So at that point, the clubs are just switched with each other. The way to do this is: you keep the golden club low, out of the way of the wqy of the passing club. The other juggler throws a short pass to shoulder height, after releasing the club brings down the hand again to receive the golden club. You hand over the club and catch your pass.

3) We discard the passing club again and take up two clubs of ideally the same color. Each of the clubs will stay with one passer and do the sequence self, flip. The self always happens over the zip, so you use it to switch hands on the golden club.

Each juggler has the sequence: self, zip, give, flip