Breakfast at Tiffany's 56662
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And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got"
This pattern is called "Breakfast a Tiffany's", because it will make learning to combine selfs with passes a piece of cake!
There is a series of exercises that you can use to build up to the final pattern. Each of them is compatible with the final pattern. Your aim in this should be to find something for each passer that they find somewhat difficult, but simple enough that you can keep running the pattern for a longer time without dropping - because time you spend on picking up is not time spent practicing.
Color-coding: the zap is magic: use a club of different color for the zap and that club will only do zaps in this pattern. This also means you will not have any self throws to turn wrong-end clubs, but will have to correct on the zap itself.
A begins and throws straight zaps, B throws diagonal zaps.
Exercise Before Simplified Pattern
B has two clubs, A has one differently-colored club - the zap.
A doesn't really juggle, just throws the zap to B so B can react on the incoming zap.
A throws the zap and B reacts with self,self,zap, returning the club to A.
A 1|0: zap, wait, wait, wait, wait B 1|1: self, self, zap, hold, hold.
Repeat for both jugglers (note that one juggler will need to throw crossing zaps, the other will need to throw straight zaps)
Continue on when you think both can handle the kind of zap they get from B.
Simplified Pattern
Siteswap: 56464
A 2|1: zap, hold, hold, self, self B 1|1: self, self, zap, hold, hold
Full Pattern
Sequence:
A 2|1: zap, self, zip, self, self, B 1|1: self, self, zap, self, zip,
You can combine those in any possible way… mostly do the sequence with holds and do a self-zip only when the pattern feels stable. Or one juggler does the pattern with self-zip and the other with holds.
If you want to make it more difficult, substitute the the holds with active flips
Siteswap: 56464
A 2|1: zap, hold, hold, self, self, B 1|1: self, self, zap, hold, hold,
Extended Pattern with Heffs
Or, to make it yet more difficult, it is also possible to substitute the self,self after an incoming zap with heff,flip:
A 2|1: zap, self, zip, heff, flip, B 1|1: heff, flip, zap, self, zip,
Additional Things to Do
- As usual, you can do the zip behind your back
