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With the hammer-fist strike, you are making impact with the bottom of the fist. The fist is still tightened on impact, but instead of striking with the knuckles (which can also bruise quite easily), you are striking with the tightened soft tissue at the base of the fist, which doesn’t damage easily; this protects the relatively fragile bones of the hand.

Downward/Forward Hammer-Fist

This strike derives its power from the dropping of the hand, assisted by the body, onto whatever target has been selected. It can be delivered straight down, against a target such as the back of your assailant’s neck (if they are bent over), or it can be angled straight into an attacker’s face if they are standing/facing you.

In real-life situations there is no time to get into a “fighting stance.” If you try to do so, you will have both wasted time and informed your aggressor of your intentions. However, to practice hammer-fists, and understand how they work, a fighting stance is a good position to start from. In reality, your “fighting stance” is one that adheres to certain principles: weight distributed 50/50 between the feet, head over shoulders, shoulders over hips, feet on opposite corners of a rectangle, etc.