Existing lessons teaching Rotation & Wrist Flexes

[Valerie Sutton]

On Jul 7, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>  So I think that is what Kelly Jo is referring to, but I am sure  
> that this has never really come up before. But that will always  
> come up when you have new people learning a system, new issues come  
> up. :-)
> Adam

The main thing that I need to teach better, is that Rotation Symbols  
and Wrist Flex Symbols have clear definitions. Although I truly did  
try to explain this in Chapter 8, I remember I always had trouble  
teaching this area because for me, it is as natural as ASL is for you  
all...and trying to describe one's own thinking is always hard...

The fact that the wrist locks with a Rotation Symbol, so the rotation  
is solely from the elbow joint and not from the wrist joint, is a  
very important fact, and most important is that Rotation Symbols were  
developed to write "movement that doesn't travel"...the only reason  
we had to develop them was because we needed a way to write movement  
that doesn't travel, but happens in one place...hence the forearm- 
line slashes any movement symbol making it "unmoveable"... or  
untraveling...

1. A Movement Arrow WITHOUT a line through it travels:

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2. A Movement Arrow WITH a line through it does not travel, but  
rotates around the axis of that line in one place...

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3. IF an arrowhead is placed at the end of the Axis Line, then that  
is a Traveling Rotation Symbol...see attached.

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That was why I suggested that to Cherie, that maybe the sign was a  
Traveling Rotation, which looks nothing like the static rotation in  
the sign for HAPPEN...I can write it as a Traveling Rotation for you,  
if you would like to see it...

And by the way...if this explanation above makes sense to you, then I  
can try to write a lesson with tons of diagrams explaining the above  
1, 2 and 3...in more detail ;-))

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