Get you High Five on!!

High-Five

For anyone who spent their formative years in peer groups favoring the Vulcan salute, the high-five can be an intimidating prospect. Fear not, there's a science to the soul-clap. Just follow these simple steps.

When you've mastered the Classic, take it to the next level with one of the advanced variations.

The Classic

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.


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The Top Gun


Is your ego writing checks your body can't cash? You and your wingman require a sick move to show up those who don't feel the need for speed.

1. Initiate the classic move (impact at 12 o'clock), but make contact with only the outside edge of your hands.

2. Move your bogies past one anothers' and arc downward 180 degrees to slap a low five in the 6 o'clock position.

3. Howl, as if at the moon.