Fixing Jeet Kune Do Focus Mitts

Boxing students may wonder why the JKD world trains focus mitts in such a static way. Jeet Kune Do students of the 1970's through the 1990's came to the art by way of the classical and traditional martial arts. While they wished to get away from certain static training methods, the practitioners lacked formal training in how to use the mitts correctly.

Here's a video that deconstructs a few of the common problems JKD students embody when training with focus mitts:

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