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51234

3-ball siteswap pattern

3 balls · Intermediate

Siteswap
51234
Objects
3
Period
5
Max
5
Speed
Camera

Understand the siteswap

  1. 5
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
5
High throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, across to the other hand. It buys time for the other throws.
1
Quick transfer. A quick, low transfer straight across to the other hand, barely leaving it.
2
Hold. The ball is simply held for a beat while the other hand does the work.
3
Normal throw. A normal cascade-height throw, across to the other hand.
4
High throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.

About this pattern

A ladder of throws climbing one height at a time — a neat demonstration that a siteswap's digits need not repeat.

Learning this

Before this

Worth having comfortable before you start.