Alternating shower

An alternating shower is a pattern similar to a snake, but done with higher throws to make time to pass another object that isn't part of the snake from one hand to the other before the snake changes direction. That one object is never thrown high - it just gets passed back and forth at the bottom of the pattern.
Alternating showers and patterns containing an object which is thrown only as siteswap 1 or 2, especially 52512, are known as "baby juggling" patterns.http://www.cs.unc.edu/~helser/juggler-0.81/baby.html The object being passed back and forth can be replaced with a fragile object or a child, because it can remain in contact with a hand at all times. (Doing this with children younger than five or so is not recommended, though. Actual babies can be easily injured even if you don't throw or drop them.)
==See also==
*Shower
*Snake
*Pseudoshower
*Box
*Double box
*Sprung patterns
== References ==
Category:Patterns
Category:Siteswaps
Category:Ground state siteswaps
Category:Excited state siteswaps
Category:Period 5 patterns
Category:Symmetric patterns