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As you deliver the strike, start to bend the knees and sink your weight in order to add more power to your strike.

Rather than “bouncing” the strike off the target, drive through it, and prepare to raise the elbow again, in a cyclical fashion, to deliver another strike. Another advantage hammer-fist strikes have over straight punches is that it is much easier to move forward throwing multiple hammer-fist strikes than it is to move forward throwing full-force straight punches.

This is an extremely powerful strike, which sees your extended arm, held overhead, crash downward (and sometimes forward) into the intended target (nose, back of head/neck, clavicle, etc.). The same strike can be made while holding a pen, flashlight, etc., so that all the force of the strike is concentrated through a harder and much more focused striking surface.

If you can find a solid object, such as a pen, a flashlight, a mobile phone, etc., you can use this to focus the power of your hammer-fist strike. Simply hold the object in your hand—with your thumb over the top to prevent it slipping when it makes impact—and deliver a hammer-fist strike against your assailant. If you aim for the chest, make sure you rip/scrape the object down the body after it has landed, in order to cause maximum trauma.