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Despite what Ed Carstens said about the difficulty of the patterns he
proposed as solutions to the question of a 2P7C PPS pattern (two People,
seven Clubs, pass-pass-self), I think there is a fairly easy solution.

If you read the Spring 1991 Juggler's World, you will find the seven-club
3-count, which is almost exactly the same.  All we do is turn one self
of each person into a pass (hence PSS (3-count) becomes PPS).


We're passing with both hands here, with two out of three releases being
passes, for each juggler, and all the passes are doubles.  One person
throws only diagonal passes (R to R and L to L), and the other person
throws only straight passes (R to L and L to R).  Unlike Ed's patterns,
this is completely symmetric, except for the difference between diagonal
and straight passes.

Numbers in parentheses below represent the event time in counts.

The person with four clubs starts (count 1.0) by throwing (say from the R)
to partner's hand that has TWO clubs (say to the L hand).  The partner
responds 1/2 count later (count 1.5) by doing a normal single self (from
the hand that had two, naturally -- the L here).

Then the first juggler (count 2.0) make the second pass (from L) to the
partner's other hand (the R), and then the partner (count 2.5) makes a pass
from the second hand (the R) to the first juggler's first passing hand (the
R).

The first juggler then (count 3.0) does a self (from R to L), and the
partner (count 3.5) responds with a second pass (from L to L) 1/2 count
later.

Then repeat from count 1.0, reversing left and right.

You can start without verbally deciding who will make diagonal and who
straight throws.  Whichever person has four clubs starts by throwing to the
hand that has two clubs -- that first throw determines whether the starting
person throws all diagonals or all straights.  That first person proceeds
later with a second pass and then the self.  The partner responds to the
initial pass with a self and then with a pass back to the starting hand and
then with a pass to the other hand.

As you can imagine, having turned PSS into PPS, you can now take one more
step and turn PPS into PPP -- a 7-club 1-count.


Turns out that the 7-club 3-count is relatively (that's the the key word)
easy with doubles, but it is VERY fast and syncopated (fun!) with singles.
I reckon 7-club PPS is quite reasonable with doubles and quite hairy with
singles.  Strangely enough, the 7-club 1-count rhythm is even with singles,
though slower of course with doubles.
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Martin Frost		Computer Science Department, Computer Facilities
Systems Programmer	Stanford University, Stanford, CA  94305-2140
me@CS.Stanford.EDU	(or mfrost@stanford.bitnet)