<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>September 27, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Mark wrote: So far, my ability to use the notation method to capture a person’s </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><B>body</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> movement is quite poor. </FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">But I will get better! </FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">So far, I have read one of Valerie’s first books, “Sutton Movement Shorthand – Book One: Classical Ballet”.</FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Even though I understand the basics of the method, I lack the know-how on how to capture the complexities of a person’s body as they perform a skateboarding trick </FONT><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">L</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">.</FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">If anyone knows how I can learn how to capture the movement of a person’s body, that would be much appreciated!</FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Mark!</DIV><DIV>Welcome to the SignWriting List! And thank you for your introduction ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am amazed you have one of my first books written in 1973, I believe..I didn't know anyone could even get that book anymore!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>List members....I have been impressed with Mark, who one day wrote to me on email to ask me if we could write the movements of skateboarding, which is a popular sport here in Southern California ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here, in California, we see young people skateboarding down the street all the time, and there are amazing olympic-skilled skateboarding competitions in special arenas. The movement is a little like writing ice skating movement, but the props are different. Instead of ice skates, there is this special board with wheels, that twirls and turns in the air with the person, while they jump in the air...it is quite an amazing sport...Have any of you seen it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Years ago I wrote ice skating routines in Movement Writing, and the stick figure had a little skate on his foot, so placing a skateboard under the figure is not that different.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>When we write the whole body moving, we call that Full-Body Movement. Writing skateboarding is writing Full-Body Movement with a specific prop...namely the skateboard.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I will rename this thread Full-Body Movement. We can discuss how to write the whole body turning, bending down, twisting, and how to write this in our software on the web called SignPuddle. Plus, I can place the new Skateboard prop in the IMWA (the International Movement Writing Alphabet ;-)...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So Mark, look for the next message in this thread, called Full-Body Movement...This will be fun!!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 27, 2005, at 9:20 PM, <A href="mailto:LitleGu@AOL.COM">LitleGu@AOL.COM</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">Hi All,</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">My name is Mark Guerrero, I am 23 years old, and live in <ST1:STATE w:st="on">California</ST1:STATE>, <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">USA</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have come across the Sutton Movement notation method due to my interest in skateboarding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have been skateboarding for the past 19 years of my life and have recently wanted to use a notation method to capture skateboarding moves and tricks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In my search for such a method, I found Sutton Movement notation.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">Over the past couple of months, Valerie and I have been talking about creating a way to capture the movement of a skateboard.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the past two weeks, I have been creating a skateboard symbol(s).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I emailed Valerie what I have come up with so far and would be more than happy to share it with all of you.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Times New Roman">So far, my ability to use the notation method to capture a person’s <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">body</B> movement is quite poor. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I will get better! <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So far, I have read one of Valerie’s first books, “Sutton Movement Shorthand – Book One: Classical Ballet”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though I understand the basics of the method, I lack the know-how on how to capture the complexities of a person’s body as they perform a skateboarding trick </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">L</SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If anyone knows how I can learn how to capture the movement of a person’s body, that would be much appreciated!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT size="3"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Well, it has been great introducing me to everyone and I look forward to potentially meeting some of you </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">Thanks!</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><O:P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </FONT></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">Mark</FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>