Hi, my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center in Seminole. Today we're going to be performing the Cross Strike. So with this technique you want to start with the Yin and Yang grip, okay. You want your hands about shoulder width apart, have the right palm facing up, left palm facing down, tightly at the hip. Okay, so from here what you're going to do is you're going to lift the staff up, as you lift, you're going to bring up the right leg, twist the staff around this way, here, lower it down, and as you step down, bring the staff across your body and twist out. Make sure you keep the left arm tightly onto the armpit, touching the rib cage. Okay. So you're here, so pick up, lift up the leg, twist, smash straight across. So once again, you're here, straight up, twist, smash. Okay, so the way you use it is like this. So, slowly first. Okay, you want to block, straight up this way, okay. Now this is the block, invert it, come across, smash right to the jaw. So once again, they come in, so you lift, here, come across, smash right to the job. Okay and once more a little faster. So you lift here, smash. Again, come up, smash. That's how you perform the Cross Strike.
