Gloves and Mitts
Mitts
I use a variety of different gloves and mitts for different types of practise but mainly to lessen the impact of blows and the contact of knuckles to the body which will cause people to behave differently than they should when practicing applications.
I have often observed that when people know what the application is they change their behaviour in anticipation of the counter especially when their training partner lacks sufficient control or is insufficiently skilled to control their strikes. This creates the situation wher neither party is practising the techniques in the correct way , the attacker does not attack with full commitment and the defender cannot perform his application because of this
These mitts have the advantage that they are lightweight, flexible and leave the hands free to perform all open hand techniques such as locks and palm strikes without any impediment.
October 24, 2009 at 2:14 pm | Training | No comment
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