The Shawinigan Handshake
Very nice!
And it would be nice if some of ours demonstrated such skill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien#Early_life
And being 18th of 19 children (10 of whom did not survive infancy) got to be tough.
As a young man, Chrétien was well known for his love of violence, and as someone who relished his reputation as a local tough guy who was most happy when punching out his fellow students.
One of Chrétien’s classmates recalled that he was much feared on the account of his “atrocious temper”.[11] Chrétien attended Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières and studied law at Université Laval. As a student at Trois-Rivières, Chrétien later recalled that his best day at that school was his first day when he attacked without provocation another student taller than himself, leading him to proudly remember that: “I really socked it to him bad. In front of everybody!”
Chrétien recalled that his assault was meant to send the message to the other students: “Don’t mess with Chrétien!”
When asked in an interview by his biographer Lawrence Martin about what subject he was best at in high school, Chrétien replied: “It was street fighting that I was best at”. Despite the thuggish image that he cultivated at Séminaire Saint-Joseph, Chrétien’s grades were high,