Focus pad training question

[Youngblood]

I mean when someone is holding a pad in each hand, the jab lands on the pad to the right, and cross lands on pad to the left (orthodox)

Is that when you imagine a target in the middle and use the pads as the follow through for "punching through the target"

If your coach knows what he is doing, just make contact, don't worry about going through the target. No need to imagine anything. It is just about mechanics.