As we all know many of the good people use cross hyper. Half the time they use it for no reason leaving you an opportunity to attack. Especially ryu user who hado or special then cross and maybe throw in a few moves then cross hyper..
If you see your opponent doing this save your specials and wait for them to cross hyper or predict it then throw a special out in their direction. Its a 100% chance that it will hit. Because they will fall in the special or attempting to perform a move. Its a 75% chance that it will be blocked by the more experienced user.
If you have another special wait until theu think you stopped your assualt or u thinks its w clear hit and throw another special in their direction causing further damage.
So main thing here is to save your special and wait for the cross hyper and release your specials.