Can you do the Vulcan Hand Salute?

[Relayer1]

Both, and then some.

Try this - hold both hands in front of you, fingers together, palms facing away.

Separate the little finger on the right hand and the thumb on the left hand. Return.

Separate the ring and little fingers on the right hand from the others and the thumb and forefinger on the left hand from the others. Return.

Separate the middle, ring and little fingers on the right hand from the others and the thumb, forefinger and middle fingers on the lefthand from the others. Return

Separate the thumb on the right hand and the little finger on the left hand. Return.

I'm no good at sport, an unimpressive musician, my motor coordination is average at best, but I can do that !

 

[Green Shirt]

I learned this as a teenager watching TAS, with my right hand. Years later in college, I taught myself to do it with my left hand. It was much more difficult. Now that I recall, masturbation started the same way...

Now if you jam something between the proper fingers it will come much faster.











The salute, I mean.

 

[Lance]

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As to the question: both hands. It's so easy for me to do that I just can't fathom why some people can't do it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Both.

I can even quickly do double salutes with both hands (bring the two middle fingers together and spread out the outer ones).

I can do that, but the right hand takes a lot of effort to get from the Vulcan to the double.

 

[Frontier]

I learned this as a teenager watching TAS, with my right hand. Years later in college, I taught myself to do it with my left hand. It was much more difficult. Now that I recall, masturbation started the same way...

You know, Shatner has famously said he can't do it. Even going so far as making them tie his fingers with fishing wire so he could do it in Search for Spock. But I found a photo of him from TOS, brushing the hair out of his eyes, and his hand was in that exact position, just backwards.

IE: Shatner lied. (That's even when I named the file; shatner_lied_llap.jpg) lol.

 

[scotpens]

Always been able to do it with both hands. Does that qualify my to be a Rabbi?

That depends. Are you circumcised?

 

[eyeresist]

Both hands, but arthritis makes it trickier these days.

Technique-wise, I think the trick is that you're keeping the outer fingers together, not that you're separating the two middle ones.

 

[Sector 7]

I learned this as a teenager watching TAS, with my right hand. Years later in college, I taught myself to do it with my left hand. It was much more difficult. Now that I recall, masturbation started the same way...

Now if you jam something between the proper fingers it will come much faster.











The salute, I mean.

Hey, it works!
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Um, er, the uh, yeah the salute thingy.

 

[maneth]

I can do it with both hands, although it's much easier to do with the left hand, probably because I played guitar for a while in my teens.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I can manage it with my left hand (my dominant), but not the right.

 

[Praxius]

Man don't skim through this thread without looking at the thread title.... one could get the wrong impression as to what's being discussed.

I can do it with both hands, rigorously and fast.... took many years to "master" it.

 

[Botany Bay]

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Both hands (the salute, people), and have been doing so since I saw Leonard Nimoy demonstrate it on a documentary when I was about 5.

But it seems to be getting more painful the older I get!

 

[SPCTRE]

< in before Mr Hands reference >

 

[Praxius]

Well I learned by first taking my middle and index finger forward while the other two remain upwards. Once you get those muscles stretched and worked out the right way, it's easy.

 

[bbjeg]

Both.

I can even quickly do double salutes with both hands (bring the two middle fingers together and spread out the outer ones).

Same here.

 

[feek61]

Only on my Left Hand.

 

[FormerLurker]

No, unfortunately.

That hurts worse than the uniform.
-Bones, Journey to Babel

Thank you for including the correct quote from the episode. So many people don't realize the "accent" quote is from a fan to George Takei while stopped at an intersection in L.A.

I can do it with both hands, and have done so since I realized that T'Pau used her left, while Spock his right, in Amok Time. I never had a problem with it. In fact, it's easier for me to do the Vulcan salute than to arrange my fingers to use Spider-Man's webshooters.

My one complaint about the salute; far too many people do it with the thumb pressed against the hand. It frustrates me to see so many people drawing attention to themselves by doing it wrong. Stick your thumb out, people! Please!

 

[RandyS]

Both. Strangely, I have mild arthritis in both hands, and doing the Vulcan salute in my right hand takes the pain away.

Doesn't work for the left, though.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

I learned this as a teenager watching TAS... masturbation started the same way...

M'Ress was pretty fine, eh?

 

[thumbtack]

No. Maybe I should practice.