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Twinned Rotating Ys

This is a pattern for eight jugglers. It is juggled on a five count. (A six count pattern is also possible).  The starting positions and first pass are shown below:
After the first pass the jugglers have four self throws to move to the positons where they'll make their next pass. The red arrows below show how they move:

The second pass is shown in the next figure:

After the pass the jugglers have four self throws to move to the positons where they'll make their next pass:

The third pass is shown in the next figure:

After the pass the jugglers have four self throws to move to the positons where they'll make their next pass:

The fourth pass is shown in the next figure:

After the pass the jugglers have four self throws to move to the positons where they'll make their next pass:

And they are all back in their original positions!

A Variation:

You may have noticed that each juggler makes all their right hand passes to one particular juggler (eg A always makes right hand passes to B), and their left hand passes to another juggler (eg A always makes left hand passes to G). One way to change this is to alter the second and third passes.
Here is the alternative for the second pass:

And here is the alternative for the third pass:
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