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5-ball siteswap pattern
5 balls · Advanced
- Siteswap
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- Objects
- 5
- Period
- 10
- Max
- 8
Understand the siteswap
- 8
- 4
- 8
- 3
- 8
- 4
- 8
- 0
- 3
- 4
- 8
- Very high throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 4
- Low throw. Thrown lower and faster than usual, back to the same hand.
- 8
- Very high throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 3
- Low throw. Thrown lower and faster than usual, across to the other hand.
- 8
- Very high throw. Thrown higher than the pattern's usual height, back to the same hand. It buys time for the other throws.
- 4
- Low throw. Thrown lower and faster than usual, back to the same hand.
- 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.
- 3
- Low throw. Thrown lower and faster than usual, across to the other hand.
- 4
- Low throw. Thrown lower and faster than usual, back to the same hand.
About this pattern
A ten-beat cycle of eights and fours punctuated by empty beats — long, irregular, and a genuine test of counting.