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One way that you may be able to get your assailant to drop their guard and open themselves up is to throw low punches/hooks at their body. To try to protect from these, they will need to lower their hands, which will make their head available as a target.

Although they have blocked your low hook, their head is now exposed.

Pull your punch back by recoiling your hip, so that you are now in a position to deliver a hook (or slicing elbow strike) to your assailant’s head.

Push your hip forward, raise the elbow and the heel, and make a hook strike to the head.

With your attacker’s guard opened up and their head vulnerable, you can start to deliver further strikes to this target.

Although body shots are generally not the most effective type of strike (unless you are extremely accurate and able to target specific areas such as the liver) in a short conflict (lasting less than 10 seconds), they are useful for setting up other strikes and diverting an assailant’s attention away from other areas. In longer-lasting incidents, body shots will end up tiring and exhausting an unconditioned assailant, and can be extremely effective at slowing them down. This is especially true if the person you are assaulting does not know how to control their breathing when they are punched.