Juggling notation

[1][2] Toss juggling patterns have a reputation for being "easier done than said" – while it might be easy to learn a given maneuver and demonstrate it for others, it is often much harder to communicate the idea accurately using speech or plain text.

[3] While diagrams are the most visual and reader-friendly way to notate many juggling patterns, they rely on images, so are complicated to produce and unwieldy to share via text or speech.

Developed by mathematically inclined jugglers Bengt Magnusson and Bruce "Boppo" Tiemann in 1985,[1][5][6] siteswap is by far the most common juggling notation.

Not only are they understood by jugglers, there are also many computer programs capable of animating juggling patterns entered in siteswap notation.

These are far less common than the "standard" forms of siteswap, understood by far fewer jugglers and only specialized software.