snowboarding
Update:
The sign "snowboarding" has evolved. The handshapes are "bent hands." The sign still moves forward and down as if sliding down a mountain. Special thanks to Misha (CODA, Sacramento / Lake Tahoe region) for showing me this version. I'm a geek and thus am grateful to have cool friends and students who do cool things and tell me stories later so I can at least fantasize about someday being like them. (It is good to have a goal.)
-- Dr. Bill
SNOWBOARDING:
SNOWBOARD (older version)
This sign is done similar to the sign for "ski" but you use "flat hands" instead of "x" handshapes.
Hold your right and left hands out in front of you. One hand in front of the other both hands palms-down. The hands are pointing down at angle as if representing feet on an imaginary board on a hill.
Your fingertips are pointing down the hill as if they were your toes. Using a quick movement, slide your hands "down the hill" a bit and repeat, (bring them back up part way then forward and down again).
SNOWBOARDING (original version, not recommended)
The "original" version of snowboarding was to sign "SNOW" and then SURFING.
Fet's go through that step by step. First of all the sign for SNOW:
The fingers flutter as you move the hands down and side to side.
Next, sign "surfing" downhill. If you are right handed
hold your left "flat-hand" (like a B-Hand) in front of you, palm down.
Put your right-upside-down-V-hand on top of the B-Hand (as if standing
on a snowboard). Then quickly move both hands forward-down a couple
inches, then back up and forward-down again as if showing a person going
down hill on a board.
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