A useful link if you want to play around with some of these notations: Printable Graphpaper - make your own .pdf file covered with dots. Ideal for drawing out siteswaps or causal diagrams.
Siteswap
If you've ever spent much time reading Rec.Juggling you may have seen people using strings of numbers in their posts. For example 441, 504 or 45141. You probably thought to yourself, "What do all those numbers mean?!" You are not alone, that question is a very common FAQ.
Misconceptions about siteswap
Many people visiting this site will probably need to read this page first. There are a lot of false ideas floating round in the juggling community regarding siteswap so I thought an anti-disinformation page would be useful. Once you've read this you can start again from scratch.
Siteswap
This article describes the very basics of siteswap that are used in all its forms. If you are thinking 'vanilla siteswap' then go back & read the Misconceptions about siteswap article.