8040
3-ball siteswap pattern
3 balls · Advanced
- Siteswap
- 8040
- Objects
- 3
- Period
- 4
- Max
- 8
Understand the siteswap
- 8
- 0
- 4
- 0
- 8
- Very 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.
- 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
One hand alternates a towering throw with a fountain-height one while the other stays out of it entirely.
Learning this
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Easier
Lower difficulty, if this is a stretch.