Jeet Kune Do Essentials - Focus Gloves

Focus Gloves

Realistic impact training on equipment is a vital and necessary training component for any martial artist seeking to develop or enhance their performance skills. Each volume of the “Jeet Kune Do Essentials” training guide series explores one or more pieces of training equipment in-depth and offer numerous ways in which they can be used to enhance your personal growth and development.

The focus gloves (or focus mitts as they are also called) are one of the most versatile and useful pieces of training equipment that any martial artist can use to develop, hone and maintain their fighting skills. Focus gloves can be used to:
• Develop proper and efficient body-mechanics in all different types of blows such as kicks, punches, slaps, elbows, or knees
• Develop your evasive body motions such as slipping, snapping away, bobbing and weaving, and ducking
• Build accuracy and timing in striking
• Develop proper timing and distance for speed and power
• Train “non-telegraphic” movement in your actions
• Develop good defensive coverage and quick recovery skills
• Develop the ability to shift from one method or form of attack to another

“Jeet Kune Do Essentials - Focus Gloves” covers all facets of training with focus gloves, including:
• Training the various combative tools
• The Various ways of Attack
• Shifting between the various ways of attack
• Working different distances
• Training counter-offensive and defensive skills
• Performance enhancement drills

- and more.

Offering over 100 examples of training drills you can use with focus gloves, “Jeet Kune Do Essentials - Focus Gloves” serves as a handy, quick and easy reference guide to training with focus gloves, and the information provided will allow you to create literally hundreds of different drills to suit your own particular needs and to develop and/or enhance your martial art performance skills.