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Pre-requisite: Throwing first Zaps

Pre-requisite

• Throwing first Zaps

Remember to stand relatively close together.

Simplified Exercise

The pattern has 4 clubs. We start with 3 clubs to memorize the sequence a bit before having to deal with also catching clubs.

Doing a zip means quickly handing the club from one hand to the other - or doing this as a very short throw from one hand to the other. Whatever is faster. Zips can be made a little bit earlier than all other throws without speeding up the pattern - nearly in parallel to the throw that precedes it.

The sequence is zap,zap,zip - and that keeps repeating, so zap,zap,zip,zap,zap,zip,zap,zap,zip… The first run of the sequence starts from the right hand, the 2nd then begins with the left hand.

You start with two clubs in your right hand and one in your left hand. With three clubs, you can now throw zap(l)-zap(r)-zip(l)-zap(r) - and then you have no clubs left to continue. (r) and (l) denote the hand doing each throw (actually the hand order is always alternating hands: right, left, right…). The last zap that you throw in this exercise already is the first throw of the 2nd run of the sequence.

Each partner just collects the clubs and then throws the same exercise sequence zap(l)-zap(r)-zip(l)-zap(r) back to their partner. If one person does all throws straight and the other person does all throws diagonal, both will have starts of that sequence beginning with the right and with he left hand.

Zap Zap Zip

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Now do the full pattern continuously. If that is too much all at once, you can agree to stop after a fixed number of throws. A starts with 3 clubs in the right hand

Written as throw(hand) he full sequence until the same motion repeats is :

A: zap(r)            zap(l)             zip(r)               | zap(l)            zap(r)             zip(l)             
B:            zip(r)             zap(l)             zap(r)   |             zip(l)             zap(r)             zap(l)