In columns patterns, the props move straight up and down in the air. Usually each prop stays in its own column and never moves sideways past another prop.
Patterns where all the props stay in separate columns[]
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2 in 1 hand |
3 in 1 hand (moving outward) |
3 in 1 hand (moving inward) |
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Right-middle-left-middle (a variation of 423) |
1-up 2-up with the middle ball staying in one hand |
1-up 2-up with the middle ball switching between two hands |
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4 balls asynchronous |
4 balls synchronous |
4 balls synchronous another way |
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4 ball spreads |
5 balls synchronous |
5 balls asynchronous |
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3 ball Boston mess |
4 ball Boston mess |
 Cherry picker
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The sideways box doesn't have a box shape, but it is just like the box or the upside-down box, except the zips go up and down on the side instead of back and forth on the bottom or the top. It is also the same as 1-up 2-up, except one of the balls on the outside is caught at its peak by the hand that would normally stay empty at that time. |
Alternating sideways box or sideways double box |
Cross-armed sideways box |
- Video: 2 ball head bounce in columns by Anthony Gatto
- Video: Albert Lucas juggling 3 ping pong balls in columns with his mouth
- Video: 6 balls in columns by Doug Sayers
- Video: 6 club spreads by Haavard Hvidsten
- Video: 6 and 8 clubs in columns by Toby Walker
Other patterns with columns[]
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In column bounce patterns and in the bounce juggling pattern Dyer's straights, each time a ball is thrown it stays in the same column until it's caught, but then it's usually moved to a different column. |
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In the factory, two balls are juggled in one hand in columns, but the other hand keeps taking a ball out of the pattern and dropping another one in. |
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In the box, two balls go up and down in columns, one in each hand, while the other ball is thrown back and forth between the hands horizontally. |
In the double box, all three balls are thrown in columns, and each ball is always thrown in the same column, but the balls in the two outer columns are also thrown horizontally at the bottom of the pattern when they're not being thrown in columns. |
In the triple box, each of the balls in the middle is always thrown in the same column, and the outer column ball is alternately thrown on the right and left sides of the pattern. |
