The club I fly at has a lot of people in it with more flight time then I do.. All of them swear you should never cross the rubber bands.. Anyone heard of this? Why? I have always been taught to cross them adds more support in my mind... They say something about when you crash it is harder for the crossed rubber bands to come off.. I say hell with that.. If you crash and you have the right about of rubber bands there will be damage of some sort and it has nothing to do with crossing them.. IMHO