IMO it’s very important and tells alot about a man.
For instance, someone who gives me a firm handshake and looks me in the eyes, my impression is that they are a man of their word and probably someone that I can trust.
Someone who hands me a dead fish and/or doesn’t look me in the eyes, my first impression is that they believe I am wasting their time and not worthy to shake their hand and for some reason I tend to be extremely cautious about what I say or do around them and even more cautious about dealing with them. I tend to be less trusting of the dead fish handshaker.

What’s your thoughts on this?

A guy gave me the limp fish a few weeks ago and I did my standard firm grip and popped about 3 or 4 of his knuckles...it was gross.

Lol what’s your impression of the guy who does that?

And don’t reach out to shake my hand with your palms facing down like women shake hands. Like skinny said I will grab your hand and turn it right and pop some knuckles.

Same thing happened to me the other day. He barely put pressure when he shook my hand when we shook. It was non other than Nick Saban.

not high. made me wonder about his true personality and what he is really about.

I’ve never understood a grown man who presents a limp grip to shake hands. A proper handshake (and the implications of shaking hands like a woman or small child) are so widely understood, you just automatically assume they are some sort of weirdo.

On the other hand are those who view handshakes as some sort of outlet to surprise people with an absurd crushing grip. Had a guy at work do that first couple times I met him. Third time I wasn’t having it, and you should have seen the look on his face when I about crushed his hand in half.

A handshake is supposed to mean something. I've always thought my boy to look a man in eye and to shake his hand firmly. Also that a handshake is more binding than any legal document. If I shake your hand and give my word, then by God I'm standing by it period

I hate weak hand shake ,but also hateto shake a guy's hand that is softer than a women's. Make me wonder if he has ever done a day's work.

The last guy to give me a limp handshake almost got his teeth knocked out when he made a pass at me.

A limp handshake makes me want to immediately go wash my hands, it's like I just dipped my hands in chit

I don't like men that grab the fingers then give a firm handshake. I believe they are trying to show dominance so I break my fingers loose and request a reshake. In this way you let them know that you will not be dominated. If you grab my fingers and prematurely squeeze its more of a signal that you have dominance issues elsewhere.

WTF?!

Break fingers loose and request a “reshake”? That just sounds ghey to me!

I don't limp fish nor do I try to bring the man down to his knees. I have a great older friend that was very successful in business and banking that allowed him to retire relatively young (much before SS age) and live quite comfortably and still give very generously to worthy causes. Before I retired he used to give me and a couple of other officers he trusted each $1K worth of Winn Dixie cards in $25 increments to give to needy families during the holidays. He also has quite the gun collection and huge backer of Pro gun advocates. But I digress. As to handshakes, he has a firm one and the more limp the other person is, the firmer he gets. His reasoning is that if you aren't going to shake a man's hand like a man, you are disrespecting him. He'll make you respect him at least when it comes to a handshake.

Another point on what kind of a man he is, he kept a tab at local motel. Anytime we came across a vagrant or person down on their luck, needing a place to stay, we just took them to said motel on his behalf. Anytime someone asked who was doing all this, our answer, at his direction, was to be "A group of local Christian men". He and his late wife, RIP Ms. Kay, never had children of their own, but made it a point to help as many others as they could.

If you think it is easy, try giving out 1K worth of WD gift cards to needy and worthy families in a few weeks time. It is not easy when there are several of you doing it, but boy it warms your heart to be a part of that.

What about fist bumps? I’m not a fist bumper and don’t understand that crap. Wasn’t raised like that. Firm hand shake and look’m in the eye so you know we’re on the same level and I put my pants on just like you do.

If they give a soft handshake then odds are they’d “ hold one”

I’ll squeeze the crap out of their hand if they can’t shake like a man

Grabbing fingers is a negative. The areas between the thumb and index fingers meet and a firm, but not painful, grasp is used from there.

A handshake is just as important as his word.

When I'm at trade shows we bump fists or don't even shake. Too many germs.

Someone thinks that's bad, wrong, ghey, unmanly or anything else, tough crap. I can talk business with someone and trust them without having to get 13 viruses and be sick for a week.

Shake a mans hand and give him your word, that should be good enough. Sad to say that just aint the case much anymore.