Train to Nowhere: Juggling Takeouts Pattern

Train to Nowhere, a passing pattern with takeouts, is a variation (based upon erroneous recollection) of several Biowup "standard manipulator" patterns: http://www.biowup.de/

The pattern is a simple right-handed, 2-person 4-count. The "manipulator", starting outside the pattern, performs a "middle" takeout of the pass, steps into the pattern, and does a middle takeout of the juggler's right-hand self throw. This process repeats two more times (but from inside the pattern): taking out first the pass and then the right-hand self throw of the juggler for whom the pass was intended. At the very end, rather than replacing the last self throw takeout, the manipulator instead turns around with two clubs, receives a third as a pass from the other juggler, and starts passing clubs. The replaced juggler then becomes the manipulator and begins from the top, starting from outside the pattern.

A very closely related pattern is the Berlin Train which differs primarily by having "early" takeouts for the passes and "late" takeouts for the self throws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hriqJ1ziCU

Jugglers (left-to-right): John Stamey, Eric Sunshine, Brandon Vasos. Filmed on 2009-09-23 at the Motor City Juggling club in Rochester, Michigan.

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• juggling
• club
• passing
• pattern
• takeouts
• train
• nowhere