The Berkeley Juggling Club (Posts about torture-chamber)

Double Torture Chamber

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:53:58 GMT

A more complex version of Torture Chamber where two people are getting tortuted at the same time and everyone outside is doing a sweep.

The pattern is otherwise similar to the static version, but one center person is going clockwise and the other counterclockwise.

Juggler A: Starts with B and goes anti-clockwise
Juggler B: Starts with A and goes left, always passes to A in the middle (but catches from F too)
Juggler C: Starts with D and goes left, always passes to A in the middle
Juggler D: Starts with E and goes left, always passes to F in the middle (but catches from A too)
Juggler E: Starts with F and goes left, always passes to F in the middle
Juggler F: Starts with C and goes clockwise

In the pattern two people (one in the middle) always exchange clubs direclty, the other jugglers pass in a large triangle.

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

Rotating Torture Chamber

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:45:31 GMT

A more complex version of Torture Chamber where the outside people have a bit more to do.

The pattern is otherwise the same as the static version, but here, the center person rotate 90 degree after one cycle of the pattern.

To make the causal diagram a bit more compact, we show this version in 2 count, although 4 count is probably a better speed for this.

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

Torture Chamber

Berkeley Juggling Cooperative — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 02:02:29 GMT

A 5 person pattern with different difficult levels. It involves two people doing an 8-count (easy positions), two people doing a windscreenwiper feed and one person being tortured in the middle. The patterns includes a dropback for the person in the middle. Also for some passes you catch from another person than you are passing to, creating some odd angles to catch from. Passes are normally done in 4-count. It takes 4 passes until the pattern repeats, so counting them out can help.

Everyone starts with 3 clubs: 2 clubs in their right hand and one in their left.

Here is what each person does:

Juggler A: In the center position: passes to everyone going anti-clockwise, including an extrem throw to the left while catching from the right. Faces juggler B.
Juggler B: In one of the two 'front' position (B and E). 4-count feed starting with A in the center and then going left (that is: A, C, A, E)
Juggler C: Doing an 8-count, always passing to B on pass 2 and 4.
Juggler D: Doing an 8-count, always passing to E on pass 1 and 3.
Juggler E: The other 'front' position. 4-count feed starting with D in the center and then going right (D, A, B, A).

Pattern Diagram

Position Diagram

Snapshots

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beat 4

beat 8

beat 12

Similar Patterns

More difficult options:

A more difficult version is the Rotating Torture Chamber

More people:

Adding one more person in Double Torture Chamber