From: (Gichoke)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Date: 27 Oct 2002 03:34:46 GMT
Subject: Focus Mitts
Message-ID: 20021026233446.20749.00000484@mb-cq.aol.com
> rmorg...@austin.rr.com
>
>> You hit focus mitts to get good punches...but do you think of it as boxing?
>> I dont.I think of it as hitting focus mitts.
>
>Focus mitts are worthless, because they have almost no resistance to
>your punch, and you're not practicing hitting real targets, just
>somebody's hand in the air.
Focus mitts move, and a skilled feeder will send them flying back at you when
your hands drop.
The focus mitt is the most important peice of equiptment for developing ones
standup.
> If somebody wants to know what it's REALLY
>like to make "a punch to the head," I have a bowling ball they can
>borrow.
I box all the time and feel the focus mitts get you trying to punch THROUGH.
A heavier object that does not move will get you punching AT.
>. I've gotten to the
>point where when I visit a dojo, the VERY first thing I look for is
>heavy bags, and regular use of them. Playing patty-cake with focus
>mitts is classic yuppie strip-mall TKD chicken poop.
I have four heavybags hanging from my ceiling.But I only use em if no skilled
feeder is present.
Hitting the heavybag is more of a sissy thing than mitts.
First off it doesnt hit back, and secondly it doesnt set the pace.
Gi
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