Attempt no.

Daniel Simu - 2015-12-18 20:29:26 UTC - Genitore #

With less passers, there is a smaller chance of error, and thus you can work on more difficult/complicated stuff! Therefore I voted 4 but actually I mean 2.. ;)


Once you've decided to go with group passing... I totally agree with Richard! Whoever joins, the more the merrier :)


Flexible patterns, where it is easy to include more people:

Circle: passing to your neighbours (3+, gets a bit harder with more people as the angle gets wider)
Circle: passing to the person opposite side (5+, gets harder with every extra person as the distances increase)
W shape. Or with many people a VVVVVVV shape (3+)
A couple more patterns come to mind, but I don't know names and I don't feel like describing them..
Plenty of shapes are thinkable where the passes are simple, and people could move around in between passes. Like a Y, or 2 Y shapes back to back (6 people), inner outer circle/star ( minimum 3 passers in the middle, same amount of passers around, passes follow a star shaped path)...

Since the chance of error and the chance that you have beginner passers increases with more people, I would always recommend stuff that is easy to understand and execute, or directly builds upon material that all passers know (extending a roundabout for example). In any pattern, any passer can be exchanged for 2 people doing walk-arounds, any pass can be exchanged for someone doing takeouts and drop ins.

I suppose you've also looked at the passingwiki?
https://passingwiki.org/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Pattern_Query

Maria - 2015-12-18 23:24:58 UTC - Genitore #

It doesn't really matter to me what is the "best" number of people to pass with, at my juggling club we are usually 2-5 passers and we choose a pattern according to the number of passers present.

Uhm, so... Good patterns?

For 4 people I like:
Scrambled V
Speed Weave (can also add an extra club, do passes as doubles)
Rotating Y
14 clubs Y
A "shooting star" with 12 clubs, don't know the name but 4-count, doubles, walking holding two clubs
(Yes, I like patterns where I get to move around...)

5 people:
Mr inside Mr outside weave
star (many possibilities to make different variations here)
W-feed (add walking to make it more interesting)

Haven't really been in patterns with more than 5 jugglers very often. Boston Circle?

Marvin - 2015-12-26 08:00:06 UTC - Genitore #

This poll has now ended. The results are:

1.   4 (2 votes)
2.   5 (1 vote)
3.   6 (0 votes)
4.   7 (0 votes)
5.   8
   (0 votes)