The Berkeley Juggling Club (Posts about 5-person)

Star (4-count)

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:27:30 GMT

You stand in a circle and for the 5 person version always pass to the person two to your right and catch from the person two to your left.

Everyone starts with 2 clubs in their right hand.

Pattern Diagram

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Variations

There are lots of variations of this. You can do this in any count for example.

Similar patterns:

4 person walking version: Shooting Star

Rotating Torture Chamber

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:45:31 GMT

A more complex version of Torture Chamber where the outside people have a bit more to do.

The pattern is otherwise the same as the static version, but here, the center person rotate 90 degree after one cycle of the pattern.

To make the causal diagram a bit more compact, we show this version in 2 count, although 4 count is probably a better speed for this.

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

Torture Chamber

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:02:29 GMT

A 5 person pattern with different difficult levels. It involves two people doing an 8-count (easy positions), two people doing a windscreenwiper feed and one person being tortured in the middle. The patterns includes a dropback for the person in the middle. Also for some passes you catch from another person than you are passing to, creating some odd angles to catch from. Passes are normally done in 4-count. It takes 4 passes until the pattern repeats, so counting them out can help.

Everyone starts with 3 clubs: 2 clubs in their right hand and one in their left.

Here is what each person does:

Juggler A: In the center position: passes to everyone going anti-clockwise, including an extrem throw to the left while catching from the right. Faces juggler B.
Juggler B: In one of the two 'front' position (B and E). 4-count feed starting with A in the center and then going left (that is: A, C, A, E)
Juggler C: Doing an 8-count, always passing to B on pass 2 and 4.
Juggler D: Doing an 8-count, always passing to E on pass 1 and 3.
Juggler E: The other 'front' position. 4-count feed starting with D in the center and then going right (D, A, B, A).

Pattern Diagram

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Snapshots

beat 0

beat 4

beat 8

beat 12

Similar Patterns

More difficult options:

A more difficult version is the Rotating Torture Chamber

More people:

Adding one more person in Double Torture Chamber

Rotating feed

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:30:52 GMT

You start in a circle. One person is feeding everyone. When that person passes to the person on their right, that person immediatly becomes the next feeder.

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You can make this more complex, by having two of these interlocked, see Tony's nightmare.

Double rotating token feed (Tony's nightmare)

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:29:50 GMT

This has two Rotating Feeds interlocked.

You start in a circle. One person is feeding everyone.

A beat later, a second person starts the second rotation. This person should be two to the right of the first feeder (from the first feeder's point of view).

Whenever you get a pass from the person on your left, you start a rotating feed.

It helps if each person calls out 'feeder' when they start their feed.

Each person does the following:

a rotating feed
a self
a rotating feed
two selfs
a pass to the person two to the left
a pass to the person two to the right
two selfs

However, everyone starts at a different point in that cycle.

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

5 Person feast

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:16:28 GMT

This is a 5 person feast. Everyone is doing 4 count. Each person passes to each person starting with someone and then going to the next person on the right in the circle. This includes parsing to yourself, so to speak, where you just do a normal self.

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

This pattern can easily be extended to N jugglers. One just still goes around passing to the next juggler to the right.

One an also easily do this in different counts, e.g. 2-, 3-, and 4-count are typical, but really anything works.