Wow, thanks for the detailed answer! That's a lot of useful information.
I hadn't been thinking of the mitts as a good ILC training aide. I didn't initially think of the mitts much beyond a target for your partner to hit. It looks like I'll be picking up some mitts in the near future and upgrading my gloves. I was thinking something along the lines of
JKF gloves or
gladiator cobra gloves. The JKD gloves look nice, but I only have an hour a week of lunchtime partner training. I'd hate to be using 5 of those minutes tying on the gloves.