On 8/9/05, craig gemeiner <ozsavate@...> wrote:
> 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.

Not long winded in the least, thanks for sharing how you guys do it.
It has been years since I seriously toyed witht he cross guard. If the
weather clears up today I might have a good chance of trying my hand
at it once again.

ken