Glossary

This is a "glossary of terms commonly used in this jugglingpatterns wiki and in the juggling community"

B

Breadford circle, Boston circle

A passing pattern for an arbitrary amount of people, in which passes are exchanged pairwise with everyone in turn. See Breadford circle. Actually the same pattern as the Escalator, except for people moving in the latter.

C

Club

Something you go to at nights for a drink or a juggling utensil.

Column

often used to describe straight upwards vertical throws

D

Doublepass a pass with a club that spins twice before arriving (due to being thrown higher than a single pass)

E

EJC

The European Juggling Convention. At the time of writing the biggest juggling convention happening yearly worldwide. Every year in a different european city.

F

Fluffy, fluffies

What we call juggling clubs, err, fluffies to express their soft and friendly nature (also: "clubs" would be banned on airplane hand luggage)

G

Gandini

A very successful juggler who invented many juggling patterns, quite a few of which are being called "Gandini pattern". Probably most commonly used for a pattern in which two people throw a single 3-club cascade while walking around each other and alternatingly providing the left and right hand for the throws.

H

Heff

a heff is a column throw with a club that spins twice

I

Intercept

used in manipulator patterns. A manipulator receives a club and keeps it, becoming a regular juggler in the pattern.

J

Juggling

the act of doing cool stuff with objects

K

Karsten

The creator of this wiki. This entry helps to fill a spot in K until something more useful turns up

M

Minis, mini

"small" passing patterns in which two people stand side by side

P

Pass

A throw that goes to another juggler. If not specified otherwise, it is usually a throw in whicht the club does a single-spin turn.

Passing, passing pattern

several people juggling together in a patterns in which objects are thrown from one juggler to another

Prechac transformation, prechac

A way to turn one-person patterns into passing patterns via their siteswap. The term is also confusingly used for all kinds of other things, like Minis or in the form of "prechac notation" as a name for siteswap notation used to describe patterns derived from the prechac transformation and "patterns like it". Should only be used as name for the transformation.

Y

Y

a formation in which 4 people can stand in 4-person passing patterns

Z

Zap, zaps

a fast low throw from one juggler to another in a passing pattern in which the club does not turn or does a half spin (depending on how you determine the starting position)