Scratch Your Head Animations

I published an article in Kaskade, the European juggling magazine, on a new class of passing patterns called Scratch Your Head. The article is here in English and here in French (thanks to JiBe Hurteaux). Here are animations of some of these patterns, thanks to Wolfgang Westerboer's excellent passing animator, JoePass! (For the JoePass files, you can right click on them to download them and then open them in your own version of JoePass.)

If you read this page, please send me e-mail at the address on my home page. I would really like to know who is interested in the Scratch Your Head patterns, and if I get several e-mails it will encourage me to add more stuff here! Thanks.

Scratch Your Head 22 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 23 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 24 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 33 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 34 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 44 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Feed Your Head 333 Right-click here to save JoePass code Animated gif
Scratch Your Head 3x4 Right-click here to save JoePass code Sorry, no animation!

Thanks to Rhonda Horwedel for creating these animations!

Addendum to the article: after I submitted the manuscript to Kaskade, I began corresponding with JiBe Hurteaux, who did the translation into French. He pointed out that the Scratch Your Head patterns are variations of a pattern called "5+2 ultimate", published here by Christophe Prechac on JiBe's great passing database. (In my notation, "5+2 ultimate" would be called "Scratch Your Head 3x3x".) I sent an addendum to Gabi Keast acknowledging Christophe, but it was too late to get it into the article. So I offer my apologies and thanks to Christophe here!