Pre-pilot · recruiting design-partner gyms

Grappling footage,
finally searchable.

Martial Vision is a coach- and athlete-governed research initiative building trustworthy computer vision for grappling. Every roll becomes a verified timeline. Every timeline becomes evidence.

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The Platform

Film review that answers questions.

Not an AI coach. A workspace that turns raw rolls into structured, searchable evidence — with a coach checking the system's work at every step.

  1. 01

    Upload

    Phone or fixed-camera footage. No special hardware, ever.

  2. 02

    Draft timeline

    Broad positions and transitions, proposed automatically.

  3. 03

    Coach review

    Uncertain moments get flagged. Corrections take seconds — and every one makes the system better.

  4. 04

    Search & clip

    "Show every time John lost half guard." Click. Jump. Export for tomorrow's class.

  5. 05

    Patterns

    Athlete and team trends across months — where practice time actually goes.

Spend less time scrubbing footage. More time coaching from evidence.

The Problem

Grappling film is evidence coaches can't use.

Every practice produces footage. Almost none of it gets watched. Finding one lost underhook from last month means scrubbing hours of video by hand. Other sports built entire film-analytics industries. Grappling got skipped.

It got skipped because it's brutally hard. Limbs disappear under bodies. Generic pose models break down exactly where grappling begins: occlusion, contact, and context.

And the labels that matter — half guard, crossface, underhook — are martial-arts concepts, not computer-vision concepts. No public model knows them well.

What's missing isn't another AI demo. It's the foundation: a shared vocabulary, coach-verified data with clean rights, and honest benchmarks measured on footage the models have never seen.

A position isn't a shape.
It's a relationship between two bodies.

Scope, Honestly

What we are not building.

Narrow scope is a feature, not an apology.

Research Principles

How we keep ourselves honest.

Coach in the loop

The people who understand fighting best aren't software engineers. Coaches verify everything the system claims — and their corrections are what make it smarter.

Honest uncertainty

We'd rather show a coach "42% confident — needs your eyes" than pretend to be right all the time. The system knows what it doesn't know.

Real evaluation

Models are tested on unseen athletes, sessions, cameras, and gyms. Accuracy that only works on familiar footage is fake accuracy.

Open where it counts

The ontology, annotation format, and findings are open. Identifiable footage and private gym data are controlled. Sparring film is never public by default.

Privacy & Participant Rights

Your footage. Your call.

Training film exposes strategies, weaknesses, and bodies. Every athlete consents individually — gym-owner permission alone is not enough. Every participant picks a level:

Level 1

Private

Used only for your gym's own review. Nothing leaves. Never used for training or research.

Level 2

Anonymous research

Footage and labels help build models and aggregate findings. Nothing released publicly.

Level 3

Public contribution

Consent-cleared clips may join an open dataset or benchmark — credited or anonymous, your choice.

Roadmap

Small claims, kept — in order.

  1. Foundation Now

    Mission, scope, consent framework, coach and athlete interviews. Recruit the first design-partner gyms.

  2. Ontology & manual pilot

    Define the position and transition vocabulary. Run the workflow with humans in the loop and measure whether it actually saves coaches time.

  3. AI assistance

    Automate suggestions only where they demonstrably cut review time. Coach corrections keep improving the system.

  4. Cross-gym benchmark

    Blind evaluation on unseen athletes, environments, and cameras. Publish what works and what doesn't.

  5. Longitudinal analytics & broader grappling

    Athlete patterns, team trends, curriculum support. Then — and only then — gi BJJ, wrestling, judo, and MMA ground work.

Get Involved

This only works as a collaboration.

Coaches

Shape the tool from day one. Tell us what film review costs you today, help define the vocabulary, and correct the system's mistakes — your expertise is the product.

Athletes

See your own patterns across months of training — with full control over your footage and how it's used.

Gyms

Become a design partner. Participating gyms get early access to every tool the initiative develops, and a real say in what gets built.

Researchers & developers

Grappling is a genuinely hard, underserved vision problem. Help build the ontology, benchmarks, and baselines the field is missing.

Contact

Skeptical? Curious?
Both are welcome.

hello@martialvision.example

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