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Post by guillaume on Sept 24, 2008 20:28:00 GMT -6
Hello all, I have perused the forum and found that many coaches wanted to know how best to signal from the signal. Well after a talk with some of the staff, we have used American Sign Language and we have been very successful at signing our calls. The advantage of ASL is the wide variety of signs which one can used. Plus the guys learn ASL which can always be useful. My personal favorite: our "Hippopotamus" call in defense...ahahah Do have a look here: www.lifeprint.com/Hope this makes signaling easier. |
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Post by tog on Sept 24, 2008 20:37:25 GMT -6
good idea
we already have the bulk of our signals but this is great for more ideas/streamlining
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Post by tothehouse on Sept 24, 2008 21:22:33 GMT -6
I like the sign language deal, but I found one thing difficult. Sometimes the hand signals resemble each other and the linebacker making the calls gets confused. I try to make my signals pretty clear and nothing close to the same as another sign.
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Post by mrsixx6 on Sept 25, 2008 6:07:33 GMT -6
We have a deaf kid (starter, sharp kid) in our program (no huddle) and he was mortified when we discussed going ASL...he says "Don't you idiots know how many people know ASL?!? They'll have our signs!" (paraphrasing of course...) SO, we invented a crazy story, made the signals relevant to the story, and its illegible to anybody who doesn't know the "teaching story". They loved being involved, its "their" system, and its been a success....
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Post by aznando on Sept 25, 2008 6:58:38 GMT -6
Hello all, I have perused the forum and found that many coaches wanted to know how best to signal from the signal. Well after a talk with some of the staff, we have used American Sign Language and we have been very successful at signing our calls. The advantage of ASL is the wide variety of signs which one can used. Plus the guys learn ASL which can always be useful. My personal favorite: our "Hippopotamus" call in defense...ahahah Do have a look here: www.lifeprint.com/Hope this makes signaling easier. Don't do that if you are playing my team. I'm pretty decent with ASL many more people are taking ASL in college as their language  Aznando |
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Post by airman on Sept 25, 2008 13:38:15 GMT -6
We have a deaf kid (starter, sharp kid) in our program (no huddle) and he was mortified when we discussed going ASL...he says "Don't you idiots know how many people know ASL?!? They'll have our signs!" (paraphrasing of course...) SO, we invented a crazy story, made the signals relevant to the story, and its illegible to anybody who doesn't know the "teaching story". They loved being involved, its "their" system, and its been a success.... we had the same situation with a deaf athlete. |
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