This post is intended to talk about what kenku.org offers; it also acts as an onboarding guide for new beta-users. I expect this to change over time as I continue working on the project. For those who don't know what kenku.org is, it's my current project that intends to be a kind of smart-journal for grappling sports. Helping athletes keep track of, and manage their training sessions. It's currently in private beta.

Pre-Session

Designed for use before a training session, this section helps set intentions before a session to help you train with a structured purpose. Features include:

Set your drilling techniques

Here you can set your techniques for the session (what you want to drill/work on). If you haven’t logged any techniques yet go to kenku.org/log-technique to add some of your techniques to the application. Once you’ve done that you can go back and set the techniques that you have saved as things you want to work on in the session. Over time as you log more and review more techniques kenku.org will start to get better at recommending what you should drill based on a spaced-repetition algorithm that models memory decay over time. This is intended to save you from forgetting things and also help new techniques stick faster.

Set your goals

Here you can also set your goals for the training session. If you don’t know what goals to set you can also “generate Ai goals” these can be finicky but get better over time the more sessions you log. Particularly the more you log “things to work on” in your post session.

Post-Session

Here you can record a bunch of data about your session, if you filled out a pre-session form this is the time to reflect on how you went with the techniques you wanted to work on and goals you set. This data will be used in future “pre-session” forms to give you more accurate recommendations for techniques and goals

Here you can also log sparring rounds, you can log quantitative data about the rounds, things like how many rounds you did, how long the rolls were or the intensity of the rolls. You can also log qualitative data about certain positions or certain partners, things like ideas for certain partners in the future, or what you struggled with from a certain position.

At the moment the qualitative data only exists for personal review and can be accessed any time in the “session-bank” section of the application. Eventually I’ll work on drawing insights from this kind of data for you.

Insights

Get quantitative data about your sessions. Can sort by time periods to see quantitative data over a set time period. Things like sessions done over the last month, time spent sparring in the last week, etc.

Log-technique

Used to save techniques, you can add things like tags, concepts and steps to make sure the technique is findable later and also so you can detail every aspect of the technique to make sure your record is accurate. This is editable later so you can always come back and add more detail or change stuff around.

Session-bank

Storage of every session you have ever done, can use the search bar in the top right to find a specific session.

Technique-bank

Storage of every technique you have ever recorded, can use the search bar in the top right to find and edit a specific technique.

Other

Mobile friendly
Unlimited sessions and technique storage for everyone
Secure data, your data is yours and yours only (also feel free to request a copy of it at any time)

Future features

things I am working on or am planning to add in the future

Weekly recap

A weekly recap of your training sessions with suggestions for the next week

What to work on with certain techniques

Based off your comments on reviewing the technique in the past we will give you things you need to work on when you review a technique

Flow-charts

Create flow charts and game-plans with your logged techniques for positions, partners or just in general

Thank You

A huge thank you to all the beta-testers. You make this worth it, thanks for being so patient and kind. Your insightful suggestions blow me away. If you aren't a beta-tester but would like to be one please email me