Hi Alan ,

I take it your referring to the picture in which the figure has the right
hand up in front of the face and the left down low against the body!. If so
we use this guard in some of our DDLR classes as a type of in close
battering ram , driving the enemy onto the back of his heels and following
with hammer blows to the groin and sharp raising elbows under the chin while
he's reeling back.

Aussie John Famechon -former world feather weight boxing champ provides an
excellent breakdown on the 'cross defence' in his boxing manual entitled "
The Method" .

We also use the horizontal cross guard , also referred to as the 'safety
block' while driving forward , from this position we deliver short rear
upper cuts to kick the head back exposing the jaw and throat to horizontal
hammer or EOHB blows . Both these guards have some good cross over
application to real world SD.

Sorry for being so long winded.

All the best ,

Craig G

>From: "spadaydaga" <spadaydaga@...>
>Reply-To: classicpugilism@yahoogroups.com
>To: classicpugilism@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [classicpugilism] cross guard
>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:51:20 -0000
>
>Hey,
>
>Anybody here ever use that cross guard techinque ( the one in the
>photos) in real sparring?
>
>alan in Southold, NY.
>
>