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snowboarding


SNOWBOARD (variation)
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).

Another version is to sign "SNOW" and then (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.

Let'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.




SNOWBOARDING
You can add the sign "surf" to the sign for SNOW to mean "snowboarding"





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