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. [...]
Category: Karate Training Gear
What to look for in kicking shields?
Kicking shields also known as kicking pads or multipurpose pads, are a must to improve strikes, as they help to develop speed, power, and technique. There are many benefits of a kicking shield like they can be used not only for kicks, but also for punches, knee and elbow strikes. They also provide an opportunity to know how it feels to hit a real target. But there are many kicking shields in the market and before buying one, you should know what to look for in kicking shields so that you can take your striking prowess to the next level. [...]
Pacific Sports high-quality shin-ankle-instep guards
The shin bone is in the front of the leg, and it is vulnerable in all martial arts. During kicks, the ankle and the instep may also get hurt. Therefore, protecting the shin, ankle, and the instep is important for a martial artist. Protection leads to no or fewer injuries that enables the martial artist to lessen time spent in recuperating. Pacific Sports offers guards that protect the shin, ankle and the instep. Pacific Sports high-quality shin-ankle-instep guards offer excellent protection, so that the martial artist can without any worry pursue Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, MMA, Kickboxing, or any other combat sport. [...]
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. [...]
The MATS feedback method for training
In any physical activity, be it martial arts, sports, or physical fitness, feedback from trainers is essential. Trainers follow different ways of providing feedback; however, the MATS feedback method is widely used by trainers all over the world. MATS is an acronym for Motivating, Actionable, Timely, and Specific. [...]
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. [...]
How to hold a kicking shield or a multipurpose pad
A kicking shield is a padded piece of training equipment and so it is also known as a kicking pad. Again, besides practicing kicks, it can also be used to practice punches, knee and elbow strikes, and thus, it is also known as a multipurpose pad. While holding the multipurpose pad, the partner should not get hurt from the power of your kicks and punches. For this reason, the following general guidelines may be followed: [...]