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Turn your forward hip in and pivot on the toes of your front foot. At the same time, pull your forward hand toward your chest and swing your elbow out.

Keep turning to bring your elbow into the target. As you do this, raise your other hand up to protect your head. You should still be looking ahead at your assailant.

Don’t immediately recoil the strike on impact, but continue to drive through with your elbow. From here, you could swing your left arm back toward your assailant, using a hammer-fist or forearm strike.

When you are striking someone with a series of blows, you need to be able to work their response(s) into your strikes. It is unlikely, for example, that their head—the target—will remain in the same place, especially if you are effective in your striking: some people will duck; some will try to close distance with you to clinch and cover; others will move back, etc. This is the dynamic nature of a fight, and you must be able to adapt and alter your strikes based on your assailant’s movements and responses. It may be that as you go to launch a forward slicing elbow, your aggressor has already moved back as a result of to your previous strike. This means you must be able to make this strike on the move, rather than from a static position. Being able to strike powerfully and with effect while moving is something that many people in the self-defense community neglect in their training, thinking it is something that is only applicable in combat sports such as Boxing, Muay Thai, and MMA. Being able to strike with power while moving, however, is an essential fighting skill that you will need to train in order to be effective in real-life confrontations.