MatNotes: Jiu-Jitsu

Jacob Weaver

About this app

MatNotes is the technique library for your jiu-jitsu academy. Your coach films what was taught, and it comes back to you on a schedule until you actually remember it.

FOR STUDENTS

Open the app and see tonight's list: the techniques from class, waiting to be reviewed. Each one keeps coming back until it sticks, so a detail you learned on Monday is still there weeks later.

• Watch the technique your coach actually taught, not a stranger's version
• Slow it to half speed, or tap once to loop the six seconds you keep missing
• Step frame by frame through a grip you can't see
• Ask a question pinned to the exact second of the video, and get an answer from your coach before the next class
• Flag where you got lost, so your coach knows what to reteach
• Automatic captions, so you can search for what was said
• Browse the whole library by position, technique type, or gi and no-gi
• Keep a private training journal of rounds and what you drilled

FOR COACHES

Film a technique on your phone after class. Add a title, tap the position, publish. It is on your students' phones the same night, and it keeps coming back for them without you doing anything else.

• Under a minute from filming to published
• See every open question before you step on the mat
• See exactly where the room got lost in a video, down to the second
• Build ordered curriculum tracks students work through in sequence
• Track belts, stripes, programs, and parent access for kids classes
• See who has gone quiet, so you can check in before they drift away
• Weekly insight into what your gym is actually reviewing

ONE PRICE FOR THE WHOLE ACADEMY

Students never pay anything. Academies subscribe once for everybody, with unlimited coaches, students and techniques, and manage it on our website. There is nothing to buy inside the app.

BUILT FOR THE MAT

The techniques due tonight arrive as a notification, so reviewing never depends on remembering to open anything. Weak gym wifi is normal, so MatNotes keeps working through it: taps are saved and sent when the signal comes back. It is built by one person who trains, and every support email is answered by him.

Questions: [e-mail]

What’s new

First release for Android.

MatNotes is the technique library for your jiu-jitsu academy. Your coach films what was taught after class, and it comes back to you on a schedule until it sticks.

Slow a technique to half speed, loop the few seconds you keep missing, and ask a question pinned to the exact second of the video.