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Of course Wikipedia has a helpful diagram for those who don't know about Kanchō.
As a Swiss young adult, kids in our middle school did that all the time.
Here in the US, I first learned about this from a Japanese exchange student. We quickly told him not to try it. Dude would have gotten his ass kicked by whomever he poked.
Hahhaha yeah.
It’s was very localised to pre-teen middle schoolers in my generation. Once people hit puberty that shit would not fly (no pun intended).