4440
3-ball siteswap pattern
3 balls · Intermediate
- Siteswap
- 4440
- Objects
- 3
- Period
- 4
- Max
- 4
Understand the siteswap
- 4
- 4
- 4
- 0
- 4
- High throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 4
- High throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 4
- High throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 0
- Gap. An empty beat — the hand has nothing to throw and stays open.
About this pattern
Three throws at four-ball height and then a gap, so both hands are briefly empty. The four-ball fountain with one ball missing.
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Easier
Lower difficulty, if this is a stretch.