Zap-Pass Stack Practice 5070020
This is a two-club practice pattern to prepare for a stable Baby Dragon 756 by improving the way you throw a stack.
A stack means that consecutive throws throw to the same hand. Here, we look a the stack of a zap followed by a pass.
You can practice this by just throwing the stack with two clubs - but this actually becomes a 2-club pattern if you do a zip to get the club in the other hand for the next iteration of the pattern:
Pattern Description
The pattern only has two clubs and only consists of throwing a stack: zap from one hand followed by a pass from the other hand, both throws go to the same hand of the other juggler. This is followed by a zip of the incoming zap-club to be able to repeat.
A: straight passes, crossing zaps B: crossing passes, straight zaps
The pass is magic and can be color coded.
Written as siteswaps:
A(1|1): 2.5X 3.5|| 0 0 0 0 1 B(0|0): 0 1 2.5|| 3.5X 0 0
Zero in siteswap is an empty hand - here written as "wait".
Written as throws:
A(1|1): zap, pass, wait, wait, wait, wait, zip, B(0|0): wait, wait, zip, zap, pass, wait, wait,
- Make sure that the pass is nice and floaty, i.e. high but the other juggler does not have to reach up to get it
- There is few clubs making it easy to make mistakes that do not immediately end the pattern. Make sure all your zaps stay crossing/straight, and that you stick with stacks
Optional Pattern Extensions
- The pattern can be extended to a 4-club pattern in which both jugglers throw the same sequence: Passing pattern 5577022: animation but this means there is a single empty-hand zero in the pattern, which makes ist pretty hard to juggle.
- The empty hand can be replaced by another pass, leading to Passing pattern 5577722: animation - which is a Parsnip interrupted by two zaps. See Zaps_and_Passes_(and_Flips)#Five_Clubs
Next Patterns
- One side throws "stack-zip" (zap-pass-zip), the other throws pass-pass-zip: Passing pattern 577722: animation
- Zip Zap, Attack! - 5225527 this extends the exercise to a period 7 pattern
- This is a preliminary exercise for Baby Dragon 756
