The Handshake is usually the first thing you do when you meet someone. No one wants to extend their hand and receive a "dead fish" Thats the worst way to start off the rendezvous with someone. The most common "shake" is called the original handshake. Once finishing the original handshake, people add modifiers which are like; touching chest’s, snapping fingers, one arm around the back, touching knuckles, rubbing elbows, high fives, shaking each others feet, parking the car, and some more hand gestures. Here are the Six things you Must do to complete the Original Handshake
1. There should be 2-4 feet of distance between you and the target and all your fingers should be touching each other. Your thumb and index finger should create a 90 degree angle and your hand should be pointed slightly down to the floor.
2. Thisnext part is very key to the handshake and this is the part that many fail to do correctly. The first part of your hand to make contact is the webbing on your thumb, and it should contact the target’s webbing on their thumb.
3. Once you have made first contact, you then should slightly point your hand further twards the ground and wrap your fingers around the target’s palm.
4. Now the Grip: a good handshake grip should apply enough pressure so that someone would have a problem prying your hands apart if they tried.
5. This is when the “shake” in the handshake happens, the shake is the Super Bowl of the handshake so make it a good one. With a stiff wrist, move the target’s hand/ arm up and down 2 or 3 times, this should last about 3 to 4 seconds.
6. The first time you meet someone you should stick with the Original, no use in trying to add in a modifier if you do not know that person well. Usually modifiers are used amongst friends, once you are amongst one’s friends and have witnessed a modified greeting, you may attempt to reproduce that greeting.
If you do this you will never give or receive a "dead fish"
2 comments:
I think it's interesting how people can arrive at certain conclusions about people's personalities by the way they shake others' hands. Hand-shaking is important, though, because it's a very traditional way of meeting and greeting people. I never knew that there were "guidelines" on how to shake one's hand though.
I mean if you really think about it, a hand shake says a lot about a person whether you want to believe it or not. It is almost an innate reaction to think a person is weak and lacks confidence if you recieve what Jimmy talked about, the dreaded "dead fish". If someone shakes your hand firmly that same neurological reaction will lead you to believe that person has a level of confidence.
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