Hi everyone,

iridos - 2026-03-13 15:32:58 UTC #

Hi everyone,

since I cannot remember when (or if) I posted here last, so maybe an (re-?) introduction is in order.

So I am from southern Germany and started juggling with around 16 years age. Much later, in 2012, I learnd that there is such a thing called "passing". That was great fun and so I became active again after a nearly 10-year pause in juggling. In 2020 and 2021, during corona there were no conventions and even meeting local jugglers didn't work as nobody was motivated. But there was someone in the park whom I met regularily and because she couldn't juggle clubs well, I started to try out one-count like patterns (there's zips, so not true one-counts) with passes and soon also one-count like patterns with zaps.

This worked amazingly well and after trying the same things and many more new ones out on other people, I started to write things up in a wiki https://www.jugglingpatterns.de/

Because I realized that zaps and passes (and throws that are done quite differently in general) have very little cross-learning effect, I created different starting pages for for zaps ( https://www.jugglingpatterns.de/wiki/Beginning_Zaps ) and for passes ( https://www.jugglingpatterns.de/wiki/Beginning_Single_Passes )… and then started working my way up to more difficult patterns with more clubs.

I am now at a stage where I have a very solid base of categorized pattern descriptions to offer (although still far away from e.g. the highgate collection) and it is time to try to share the link a bit more around. The main advantage that I see in what I created over other existing collections is that I try to categorize all patterns. Specifically, every pattern has a section listing similar patterns that are easier or more difficult to give you either a "next logical step" if the pattern seems easy for you or a "way to work up to it" if it seems difficult.

Hope this helps someone somewhere to find more fun patterns to try.

My next juggling conventions are probably going to be Aichtal and the EJC, where you might run into me.

Happy juggling!

Best,
Karsten