Creating An AI Powered Taekwondo Trainer

Did I mention that it’s personalized?

Has the pandemic had an impact on your ability to work out and train? I know for me it has. As someone who enjoys doing taekwondo in my free time, when the pandemic hit and everything closed, it also impacted my ability to train and learn taekwondo. Besides the considerable decrease in stamina and power, I noticed my techniques getting sloppier, my kicks getting lower, when they should have been getting higher and of course, forgetting my patterns.

Now, you may think there’s a very simple solution to the latter, just practice your patterns…duh! And believe me when I tell you I tried. I watched countless Youtube videos, even the ones that walk you through the patterns step-by-step. But as a brand new green belt at the time, I was oblivious to making mistakes. Without someone telling me I made a mistake, I didn’t know that I was making one.

This led to another problem: practicing the wrong things. Michael Jordan pretty much sums it up, “you can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way.” I could relate.

Many people think taekwondo is about power, force and strength, and for the most part, it is. But it also requires a lot of attention to detail. The…