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Prevent injury and train longer!

An injury can stop your training for days, weeks, or even months. Training without injury is crucial and therefore, using protective wear is a must. Protective wear prevents injury by reducing the chances of being hurt or hurting your partner during intensive training sessions. Pacific Sports offers high-quality protective wear that successfully prevents hands, shin-ankle-instep, feet, and upper body from being injured. Use Pacific Sports protective wear, prevent injury and train longer. [...]  read more

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Focus mitt drills

Focus mitt drills are used for training punches. The trainer holds the focus mitts or focus pads, while the student wears gloves. With the gloves, the student punches the focus mitt held by the trainer. The trainer receives punches on the focus mitt but can also use the arm holding the focus mitt as if throwing punches, which simulates sparring. The punches thrown with the focus mitt by the trainer are evaded by the student with slipping, rolling, weaving, or shuffling techniques. In this manner, the student can practice both attacking and defensive moves with focus mitt drills, using focus mitts, focus pads, and gloves. [...]  read more

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How to hold focus mitts

Round focus pads for martial arts

Training with focus mitts is not just about throwing punches and hitting the mitts. If the mitts are incorrectly held, then upon impact, the wrist or the hands of the puncher or the mitt-holder may get hurt. The following points should be considered while holding focus mitts. [...]  read more

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A good mittholder needs a Pacific Sports focus mitt

For the practice to be effective, the mittholder must be good; and a good mittholder needs a good focus mitt. Mitt practice is done by practitioners of boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Karate, MMA, and other martial arts. Practicing with a mitt is required for learning how to punch, kick or use elbow and knee strikes. The trainer holds the mitt while the practitioner hits it. During this process, the trainer shows some tips on how the strikes can have greater accuracy, speed, and power. These tips are implemented by the practitioner until the practitioner gets it right. Hence, training with a mitt is strenuous and intense. Both the trainer and the practitioner put in a lot of effort in the training session. In order for the combined efforts of the trainer and the practitioner to be fruitful, the mitt has to be very good like Pacific Sports focus mitts. [...]  read more