Whats your little handshake before you leave the plane?

[Mike111 0]

We do a like a high five slip - hit the hand side on and slide it across it, followed by a fist high five and usint th knuckle and then a finger point like an arrow .

Whats yours?

[mnealtx 0]

depends - usually a knuckle bump (fist to fist) or a hand slide (palm to palm, then slide off the fingertips) followed by a point

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[Mike111 0]

thast the one we havve - i just couldn;t describe ot lol

[dmetz 0]

Some people do the running fingers thing, kind of like they're tickling eachothers hands. ( something about that reminds me of Pauly Shore for some reason, so I don't prefer it)

But I prefer the slide with a snap off the finger tips.

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[Mike111 0]

ive seen that i think... lthough i have a bad memorya at times

[apollard24 0]

We do the hand slide to the fingers...

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[jonstark 8]

eff that...
I'm busy making sure my private bits aren't under my harness

[JohnRich 4]

None, if I can help it. I think it's a dumb tradition.

[gemini 0]

hand slide with knuckle bump. To me it means "have a safe jump; see you on the ground!"

Blue skies,

Jim

[SSGJOHNSON 0]

Shoot I was shaking everyones hands until about the 6th jump and my instructor told me the two finger slide fist bump.......Man did I feel stupid I wondered why I keep getting weird looks........LOL Thanks Robert.....

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[LisaH 0]

I'm still a student and they taught me the hand slide, finger out, knuckle bump was for arch, pull and have a safe landing.

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[Ncrowe 0]

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None, if I can help it. I think it's a dumb tradition.

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[lisamariewillbe 1]

All traditions are dumb to someone. Someone always has to be different. I personally like the tradition. Although I wont reach to the back of the plane, always get at least my group and those within arms reach. Ive not seen a standard one. I always laugh cause there are so many and I just go to shake the hand. To me , it means "Have a good skydive, hope I dont die, if I do you are one of the last people to touch me" or being for serious its just well yea its a I hope I dont die , and I will see everyone on the ground.

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[monkycndo 0]

Depending on where I'm jumping, one of the ones listed above. Then I learned a new one when jumping a wingsuit.

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We do the Hokie Pokie

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[bch7773 0]

I love going to a new DZ because they always have some different one then my home DZ. So I gotta fumble through it till I learn the new one.

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[bodypilot1 0]

The middle finger straight up.........




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Depending on where I'm jumping, one of the ones listed above. Then I learned a new one when jumping a wingsuit.

Funny, we have a different one too... The "rules are" one person has to be in wingsuit - and the other person has to own a wing suit - or else you can't use it and must resort to the more traditional moves...

It is a bird eating seeds (pecking it's nose with all five fingers together making a beak) out of one guys hand, reverse rolls, then hands interlocked at the thumb/index finger joint, flapping away like bird wings... What is yours?

[monkycndo 0]

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The middle finger straight up.........

That one always works. Tell them they are #1. Nice meeting you today Ed.

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Depending on where I'm jumping, one of the ones listed above. Then I learned a new one when jumping a wingsuit.

Funny, we have a different one too... The "rules are" one person has to be in wingsuit - and the other person has to own a wing suit - or else you can't use it and must resort to the more traditional moves...

It is a bird eating seeds (pecking it's nose with all five fingers together making a beak) out of one guys hand, reverse rolls, then hands interlocked at the thumb/index finger joint, flapping away like bird wings... What is yours?

Both in wingsuit and same ritual.

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[steelyeye 0]

Dude - this is not just tradition, it is a necessity! My empirical evidence (two cutaways) strongly suggests that if you don't have some sort of physical contact (high-five, low-five, knuckle bump or the more elaborate rituals described above) bad things happen! 100% correlation on this one!

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[Mike111 0]

Now im confused

[Mike111 0]

lol

[dzguy99 0]

We do the Chicken Dance

[squirrel 0]

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We do a like a high five slip - hit the hand side on and slide it across it, followed by a fist high five and usint th knuckle and then a finger point like an arrow .

Whats yours?

that sounds (looks) like your are rehersing a RW dive

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