Art of the Focus Mitts
One of my favorite and most versatile training tools to enhance your training, timing, speed, power and all around skills. Follow these steps to make your focus pads drills monster workouts to develop awesome martial arts skills.
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Art of the Focus Mitts - Lesson 1 (Movement)
Our first lesson on using the focus mitts. One of the most important things to get in the beginning which is the basis for all future focus pads work - movement. How to move while holding the pads for your partner.
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Art of the Focus Mits - Lesson 2 (Presenting Targets)
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The Art of the Focus Mitts - Lesson 3 (Evasion Defense)
Evasion: defense involving dodging and avoiding attacks. This lesson helps you teach your fighter to develop their evasion and start to feel unhittable with good distance and head movement and well as body evasion.
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The Art of the Focus Mitts - Lesson 4 (Integration of Lessons 1-3)
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The Art of the Focus Pads - Lesson 5 (2 and 3 Punch Combinations)
In this lesson we give you some options for 2 and 3 attack combinations that you can add to your focus pad training.
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Art of the Focus Pads - Lesson 6 (Defensive Covering)
Covering is the defense when you use a part of your body to block an incoming attack. We go over in this lesson a lot of great boing covering to help you really make your defense top notch.
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Art of the Focus Mitts - Lesson 7 (Crossing Distance)
This lesson helps you learn how to cross distance. Movement from out side your partner's range, in to ranges where you can attack your partner.
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The Art of the Focus Mitts - Fighter Tips
We also call the focus mitts drills, "fighter/trainer drills." The fighter is the one hitting the targets. The trainer is the one holding the pads who is in charge of the drill. These are some basic tips for the fighter.
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Art of the Focus Mitts - Trainer Tips
We also call the focus mitts drills, "fighter/trainer drills." The fighter is the one hitting the targets. The trainer is the one holding the pads who is in charge of the drill. These are some basic tips for the trainer.