{"items": [{"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627049874902", "anchor": "fb-627049874902", "service": "fb", "text": "When I hear people call shake hands, I usually think that they actually mean the normal handshake position, but dancers use the finger hand shake instead , as it is less likely to provoke injuries.", "timestamp": "1378384443"}, {"author": "Dave", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/111895866050265546394", "anchor": "gp-1378388018955", "service": "gp", "text": "In response to the question in your post: that is the handshake you'd use if you were greeting someone with a kiss on the hand -\u00a0\nhttps://www.google.com/search?q=kiss+hand&tbm=isch", "timestamp": 1378388018}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627053782072", "anchor": "fb-627053782072", "service": "fb", "text": "Outside of contra, I think the finger hand shake used to be more common between a woman and a man and the full-hand (or forearm) handshake between two men. (I have no idea what was common between two women.) Emily Red Kovatch, is that right?", "timestamp": "1378388063"}, {"author": "Kristina", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627054949732", "anchor": "fb-627054949732", "service": "fb", "text": "And where does a confused experienced dancer go for the details of which grip to use when? Do you ever use the full handshake?", "timestamp": "1378389131"}, {"author": "Pamela", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627056451722", "anchor": "fb-627056451722", "service": "fb", "text": "Another safety tip, especially for women during a \"ladies change\" is to LET GO. Often enough women will continue to hold on when passing through and into a courteous spin. Not a pleasant experience to encounter in the dance.", "timestamp": "1378390305"}, {"author": "Audrey", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627059730152", "anchor": "fb-627059730152", "service": "fb", "text": "$1 to whoever can guess who's hands are in the picture ;)", "timestamp": "1378392544"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627073747062", "anchor": "fb-627073747062", "service": "fb", "text": "@Audrey: ooh, ooh, let me guess!", "timestamp": "1378402370"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627073881792", "anchor": "fb-627073881792", "service": "fb", "text": "@Kristina: \"where does a confused experienced dancer go for the details of which grip to use when?\"
I don't think we use the full handshake anywhere in contra. It's always with the fingers.
(There are other hand positions, like in an aleman, but no one calls that a handshake.)", "timestamp": "1378402437"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1378431587349", "service": "gp", "text": "That was my first reaction: That's how a Gentleman takes the hand of a Lady, in archaic traditions.", "timestamp": 1378431587}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627144430412", "anchor": "fb-627144430412", "service": "fb", "text": "I think a \"normal\" handshake works as the beginning of a Grand Right and Left in square dancing. Ironically, I believe I am used to hearing it called as \"take right hands\", though I think it's sometimes \u2022taught\u2022 as \"shake right hands\" or \"take right hands as if shaking hands\".
But in general, I think you're missing the point, perhaps because you've been dancing so long. For someone who isn't a (contra) dancer, referring to something they're used to doing can help get them to approximately the right place (facing the other person squarely, right arm partly extended, hand low, grasping the other person's hand). Small details can be learned and corrected later; telling them to shake hands gets you a lot of grossly correct actions for very few words.", "timestamp": "1378456686"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/627049560532?comment_id=627155812602", "anchor": "fb-627155812602", "service": "fb", "text": "And of course, the point is to distinguish the grip under discussion from the \"arm wrestling\" grip used in the allemande figures.", "timestamp": "1378475139"}, {"author": "S.", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/113757148057552366706", "anchor": "gp-1378859587584", "service": "gp", "text": "Amusingly, that's how I was taught that a gentleman takes the hand of a lady in the late 1990s/early 2000s in Virginia.\u00a0 We Southerners are archaic folks.", "timestamp": 1378859587}]}