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Handshakes
« on: August 05, 2009, 03:33:32 AM »
Run into that a few times, myself.  ::rofl::

Don't you just love the guys who squeeze before you can get your hand in, and they grip your fingers instead of your hand.
I wonder whether it's just bad timing, or whether it's calculated to make 'em seem stronger than they really are.


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Re: Handshakes
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 10:52:53 AM »
I've never met that many but there is a moderate difference in grip-strength but luckily I've never met any bonecrushers yet (although I did come close once). I heard it's got something to do with your strength and character being demonstrated in that simple handshake, kind-of makes a simple bow like in Japan seem a lot easier, and less painful, unless you stand to close and head-but each-other that is :D

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Re: Handshakes
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 12:53:44 PM »
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the guys who squeeze before you can get your hand in,

I experienced the exact opposite when I meet my wife uncle for the first time. We went for the handshake and I just never encontered his thumb for a stop and ended shaking his wirst. I looked down and there wasn't any thumb on his hand.  ::unbelieveable::  I felt a little confused and really didn't know what to say. I now know that he do that on purpose when he meet someone for the first time.  ::banghead:: Just to see how people react.

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Re: Handshakes
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 03:48:44 PM »
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the guys who squeeze before you can get your hand in,

I experienced the exact opposite when I meet my wife uncle for the first time. We went for the handshake and I just never encontered his thumb for a stop and ended shaking his wirst. I looked down and there wasn't any thumb on his hand.  ::unbelieveable::  I felt a little confused and really didn't know what to say. I now know that he do that on purpose when he meet someone for the first time.  ::banghead:: Just to see how people react.

Ah, just think of it as an old-fashioned warrior-grip. HooAH!
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