you can't get awesome without being able to throw the perfect high-five. don't even try it. from the nice folks at wired.com, here are some tips:
1. Always initiate. He who launches the high-five owns the high-five. Engage your upper-arm muscles, keep your wrist firm, and propel your hand like the meteor of awesome it is. (Maintain altitude and an open hand — this ain't no fist bump.) Your high-five can only surrender.
2. Don't look at the hand. That looming palm is a moving, unpredictable target. Instead, keep your eye on the elbow; that'll automatically line up your mitts.
3. Cup your palm. As you reach the high point of the arc, make your hand slightly concave to create that satisfying thunderclap.
NOW GET AWESOME!!!
5 comments:
I always heard it's in aiming at the elbow but now there's a step-by-step.
I had a really great jumping high-five at some point on tour after someone brought up the whole elbow theory. For a white girl to successfully high-five mid-jump...? The elbow trick had to be why...
Hi Phil - I just got your comment about Fountainhead, and I appreciate your gesture of solidarity. Actually I moved out last month, and couldn't be happier.
I wish I had some tips for you, to get your list taken care of, but unfortunately... I don't. But here is a funny story - a couple of months after I moved in, so many things still hadn't been fixed (after countless emails), that I decided to call and leave a general message on their company voice mail every day until I got some results. After a only few days, they removed the option to leave general messages! So much for persistence.
Anyway, as a high-five aficionado myself, I like your blog - keep up the good work.
garrett taught me to look at his elbow and my life has never been the same.
I can now say that you really can find ANYTHING on the internet!
I always tell people to look at the elbow and NO ONE ever believes me. They think i'm full of shit.
Fuckers.
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