South Korean handshape

[Adam Frost]

I am just going by what has been said. I can see 3 or 4 working, but 5 gives the visual feel more like what is being asked even though it is an odd symbol. :-) All of the ones after 5 give me the feeling that the fingers are all lined up which would make it hard to holde the golf ball as Jason had discribed could be done with the hand shape. Just my two cents. 

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at MAC.COM>

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:24:33 
To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Subject: [sw-l] South Korean handshape


On Jun 29, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Charles Butler wrote:
> Number 6.  It has the right feel to me.  All the curved hands don't  
> give the "feel" of the straight fingers, and the square hands don't  
> picture the fingers actually coming together.  The bull's eye is  
> accurate, but very confusing.
>
> Here is my rendering, based on the "M" handshape with four fingers,  
> and adding a thumb.
>
> Charles

Hello Charles!
It is great to get someone's feedback. Thank you. And thank you for  
your suggestion for a new symbol. It looks good...

I didn't realize these were straight fingers. They look relaxed to me  
in the photo. I thought this was a spread-oval, rather than a spread- 
angle...

If you really like Number 6 below, then we already have that in the  
current IMWA... Jason, if you want to use Number 6 below, I can show  
you where it is located...It is in Group 5....but you could not hold  
a golf ball with number 6 below because there is too much space  
between the thumb and fingers...

I just took a look at Jason's word description from his original  
message, and he said they were holding a golf ball. That is why I  
thought it was a curve...

So I was trying to hold a golf ball...that is how number 1, 3 or 4  
were developed...they are a side view of spread ovals..all fingers  
are equally curved


Here is what Jason said:

>
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Jason Hopkins wrote:
>> The first you can make the shape by extending all your fingers on  
>> one hand, then draw the tips together to form a circle, but don't  
>> touch.  It is like holding a golf ball with your just your finger  
>> tips while keeping the fingers extended, but flexed at the  
>> proximal Knuckle.