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#153163 01/04/2006 4:12 PM
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This one turned up recently on PF. Googling gets several pertinent hits:

University of Pennsylvania Tae Kwon Do Club // Step SparringCross hand grab (eg. right to right), Rotate the hand over the ... Cross hand grab, Grab the attacker's hand at the wrist as if grabbing a baseball bat. ...
www.lrsm.upenn.edu/~felice/penntkd/stepspar.html

But I'd never heard it. Is it mostly a rightpond expression

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#153164 01/04/2006 4:45 PM
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imagine shaking hands, but grabbing each other's wrist instead.

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#153165 01/04/2006 9:49 PM
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Hey eatoin, I had always referred to (and used) that as an American Indian handshake.

Anyone?

#153166 01/04/2006 10:45 PM
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I thought this was going to be about piano playing not sports. A cross-hand excercise or piece is one in which you play one or more notes with one hand (arm really) crossed over the other, i.e. either playing the high notes with the left hand or the low notes with the right.

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musick: yeah, I've called it that, too. I was just trying to describe the action.


myridon: I had that thought, too.


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