Zig-zag patterns
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You can pretty easily make up your own half synchronous patterns by drawing a Causal Diagram on a piece of paper, which then ends up forming a kind of zig-zag line.
The arrows point as follows:
- 2 points on itself (and can be omitted)
- 2p points on the same beat, but the other juggler
- 3 points to the right (the following beat)
- 3p points to the following beat to the other juggler (diagonal up or down)
The usual rules for siteswap apply: each number has exactly one arrow arriving and one arrow departing. The sequence wraps around, so an arrow on the right end of the sequence poiting to the ricght really points to the numbers at the beginning.
Here are two examples, I drew March 2025. The first pattern contains a flip the second really only has zaps, selfs and passes (except to make it period 7):
Those are either two
- period 6 patterns (up until the line/box with the extra throw) in which the hands of each juggler do not do the exact same thing.
or
- period 7 patterns (including the box) in which the pattern repeats starting from the other hand, but the sequences differ by one throw for each juggler.
These are all half-synchronous patterns, do both jugglers throw something at the same time.
Pattern One, Period Six
Both jugglers start with the right hand and throw straight passes and crossing zaps.
- 3p: straight pass
- 2p: crossing zaps
- 3: self
- 2: flip
You can switch to crossing passes and straight zaps, but then one juggler starts with the left hand (probably the one with only two clubs):
A2|1 3p 3p 3p 2 2p 2p B1|1 2 2p 2p 3p 3p 3p
Pattern One, Period Seven, Variant 1
A2|1 3p 3p 3p 2 2p 2p 3 B1|1 2 2p 2p 3p 3p 3p 2
Pattern One, Period Seven, Variant 2
A2|1 3p 3p 3p 2 2p 2p 2 B1|1 2 2p 2p 3p 3p 3p 3p
More Similar Patterns
All of these patterns can be thrown with both sides either throwing straight passes and crossing zaps or crossing passes and straight zaps.
3p 3p 2 2p 2p 3p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3p 2
3p 3p 2 2p 2p 3 3p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3p 3 1
3p 3p 3 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3
3p 3p 3 2p 2p 2p 2 2p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3 3
3p 3p 3 2p 2p 2p 3p 2p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3 2
This has a 4-count like sub-pattern:
3p 3 3 3 2p 2p 3 1 2p 2p 3 2p 3p 3 2p 3
Compatible with double pass:
3p 3p 3 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 3p 3p 3
With both throwing dragons:
4p 2p 3 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 4p 2p 3
Or with a triple self:
3p 5 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 2p 3p 5 2p
3p 3p 3 5 2p 2p 5 2p 2p 3p 3p 3
