Found it - rotation versus flexing.

[Adam Frost]

Yes, I agree. I am just saying that if the way that the original one that
you send was spelled wrong, then this is a possible spelling to still get
the same idea across. General idea, of course.

Adam

On 7/7/07, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I think in your dance, there is actual movement through space, the dance
> swing is higher, not simply a rotation of the wrist.
>
> Charles
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> *Adam Frost <adam at frostvillage.com>* wrote:
>
> That is very interesting. That is trying to do the exact same thing. I
> probably would write it like this if it is wrong.
> (See attached if you can't see this.)
> That would be a very interesting question to see what Val says about it.
>
> On 7/7/07, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > *aerobics  *
> > *
> > *
> > *dance*
> > Here is the same movement as in WOW with one hand facing the reader. The
> > palm of the A hand faces the reader the whole time for AEROBICS, just like
> > in DANCE.  It is a rotation, not a wrist flex.  In WOW the hand starts at
> > the 90 degree point, not the 180 point, but the theory is the same.
> > We've been using this movement for YEARS with dance, but didn't think to
> > apply it to two hands rotating from a 90 degree angle.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > *Charles Butler < chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>* wrote:
> >
> > That's just it, on the third one, the FOREARM does not LOCK.  It
> > physically does not lock.  The arms rotate but because the hands are
> > perpendicular to the movement, the palm rotation does not change.  The
> > rotation may not be as far as a complete reversal (if I hold my wrist there
> > is a difference, one is only a 45 degree angle) but I can still see the back
> > of my wrist if I don't watch the hands.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > *Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>* wrote:
> >
> > SignWriting List
> > July 7, 2007
> >
> > Does this diagram help? Need your feedback ;-))
> >
> > Illustration by Steve Parkhurst:
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