taking a driving school will teach you threshold braking (braking at a point before lockup or abs kicks in)...this is the most efficient braking you can get in the car and also when done correctly keeps your brakes from overheating

basically you want as smooth a transition between braking, turning and accelerating out of the turn(s)...when coming up to a corner you want to do what they call 10/80/10 braking distance

1. for the inital braking you want to engage the pads to the rotors and settle the nose of the car the first 10% of applying the brakes (this transfers most of the weight to the front tires and this stops any exagarration of the nose dive from just jamming on the brakes as most of the traction.)
2. once the car (traction wise) and brakes are ready, you brake to the threshold to slow the car for 80% of the braking distance (this puts all the traction on the front tires and will show a car with bad rear brake bias)...if you would heel & toe it would be here
3. once the car is near the speed you want for the turn you lightly let up the brakes for the last 10% to resettle the car back (transfer weight to the back wheels) to start your turn and acceleration with as much traction as possible

I'm still a learner but have been focusing on braking and it makes a huge difference as I can now brake deeper into a corner (shorter distance) and carry higher speeds out of them