Found it - rotation versus flexing.

[Adam Frost]

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:
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> *aerobics  *
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> *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.
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> Charles
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> *Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>* wrote:
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> 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.
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> Charles
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> *Valerie Sutton <signwriting at MAC.COM>* wrote:
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> SignWriting List
> July 7, 2007
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> Does this diagram help? Need your feedback ;-))
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> Illustration by Steve Parkhurst:
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