A feed is a passing pattern where one juggler (the feeder) passes with two or more other jugglers (the feedees), who only pass with the feeder, not with each other. The feedees passes less often than the feeder, because each feedee has to wait their turn while the feeder passes to each of the other feedees. In a "classical feed", the feeder faces the feedees, who are standing next to each other in a line, all facing the same direction (toward the feeder).
In a basic 3-person 9 object feed, the feeder does a 2-count, alternating which feedee to pass to. The feedees both do 4-counts out of time with each other, so that they throw to themselves while the feeder is throwing to the other feedee.
The most common way to do a feed with more than three people is a sweep feed, where the feeder passes with each feedee along the line from left to right, and then goes back along the line from right to left. If A is doing a sweep feed with B, C, and D, A might pass with them in this order: B C D C B C D C... A does a 2-count, C does a 4-count, and B and D do 8-counts. The two jugglers at the ends of the line of feedees in a sweep feed pass less often than the rest of the feedees.
In a typewriter feed, all the feedees do the same count. The feeder passes with each feedee along the line, and then jumps back to the other end of the line and continues to go along the line in the same direction. If A is doing a typewriter feed with B, C, and D, A might pass with them in this order: B C D B C D B C D... A does a 2-count, and each of the feedees does a 6-count.
Feed patterns
- 2-count feeds
- PPS feeds
- 1-count feeds
- Gordon's feed
- Civil war
- Every other every other
- Reading romp feed
- Raccoon
- Sunshine patterns
- Mesopotamia
- JaSoN countdown
- Martin's mildness
- Martin's madness
- Technofeed
- Alan's anguish
- Rotating feed
- Alternating feed