jverlich 's List: TTC

• make sure your arm is fully extended -- an arm too close to body looks insecure
• hand perfectly perpendicular
• First, open wide the space between your thumb and index finger to make sure you get contact between the webs of your thumbs
• ensure contact between the palms of your hands by keeping your palm flat, not cupped, and by draping your hand across theirs in a diagonal
• put your thumb down, lock thumbs and squeeze about as much as they did
• elbow
• Spitfire Communications in New York City

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• dominant handshake
• palm facing up is generally considered to be a submissive gesture
• handshake initiator torquing your hand

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