User:Karsten

Hello fellow Jugglers!

My name is Karsten and I am a juggler from southern Germany who loves club passing, but during the Corona years had very few jugglers to meet with and so started to find and develop club passing patterns that I could do with people who were not or barely able to juggle three clubs alone. This meant choosing patterns that have very few or no "self" throws and for the most part relied on clubs thrown to the partner (and zips as a simple hard-to-drop substitue for self throws).

Over time, I found that this was actually a fun training method to teach people passing with clubs very early on. As a consequence of the restraints on throws, most of these patterns were more complex to remember than the typical 4-count people usually start out with. There was also from start on a bigger variety of patterns than used to be the case.

I also for a long time had been frustrated that there were a lot of passing/juggling resources online, but that - as someone with limited knowledge and limited juggling skills - there was little to no help as to what patterns were actually a plausible choice for me to try out. At some point years ago, I realized that there is not one single "difficulty" scoring for any given pattern. Instead there are many different types of difficulty presented by a pattern. And how well you do with any pattern is determined by your skill level in all of those types of difficulty (or probably on the difficulty in the pattern you have the lowest skill in).

Luckily there was a simple solution to this problem: I mostly try to compare patterns that are very similar to each other and try to sort those by their difficulty trying to provide a reasonable "previous" and "next" pattern.

Hope this guide will help people to find fun juggling/passing patterns more quickly than I could :D

Best, Karsten