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If a person has their hands up and is guarding their head, throwing circular elbow strikes is likely to be ineffective. It may be better to use a hook punch to get around your attacker’s guard.

Rather than striking with the elbow, bring an arm up and prepare to make a hook punch around your attacker’s guard.

Start to turn your torso just as you would when making a slicing elbow strike; the body movement for both these circular attacks is the same. Bring your arm up—it should have a 90-degree bend at the elbow to get around the arm of your attacker. Your hand should now be positioned to move behind your attacker’s guard.

Keeping the arm in this position, continue to turn your torso to bring your fist toward your attacker’s chin.

As you connect, start to extend the arm, driving your fist through the target. Don’t keep turning the body beyond this point, as you risk turning away from your attacker and giving them your back.

The hook punch is delivered in much the same fashion as the slicing elbow. The body movement is exactly the same: the heel raises, the elbow comes up, the hips turn, and the torso twists. Instead of the elbow slicing, however, the fist is used to punch across the body into the attacker’s head. The only real circular motion of the hook punch is made by the body turning; the arm itself extends in almost a straight line across the body, like a jab that is delivered sideways. It is the turning of the body that makes the arm motion appear circular.