Why we built MyTaek
They quit because they stopped seeing themselves get better. That is the only reason that matters. And it was completely preventable.
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of students quit martial arts every year. Not because of injury. Because of invisible progress.
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a week is how long a coach sees a child. Everything else happens at home, unseen and untracked.
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is how long a black belt takes. Most kids never get there. Not because they couldn't.
The average martial arts school loses three in ten students every year. Ask any dojo owner and they will tell you: it happens suddenly, with a single message. “We won't be coming back.” No warning. No reason.
But there is always a reason. The child stopped feeling like they were winning. The parent stopped seeing proof that the mat time was worth it. The coach had no signal until the message arrived.
The problem is not effort. It is visibility.
Typical 30-student class — who reaches black belt
9 drop here
6 drop here
5 drop here
Only ~10 of 30 reach black.
I watched talented kids walk away from this sport for thirty years. Not because they weren't good enough. Because no one showed them how good they were becoming. That is the problem I decided to fix.
Age 6
A six-year-old in Ilam, Iran, steps into a dojang for the first time. Black belt by nine. Iranian National Team by twenty-one. But the real education starts when he becomes a coach.
2016
He builds a club from scratch, then another, then five more. Seven locations across France and Switzerland. Hundreds of students. And the same pattern, year after year: good kids disappear at yellow belt, at green, at blue. Always without warning.
2019
He designs a new curriculum for children aged 4 to 7 built on gamification, storytelling, and visible reward signals. Not just instinct. A testable framework. Something that could be measured.
2025
Two peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed studies. TaekFunDo outperforms traditional Taekwondo on discipline, confidence, and motor skills. AI-driven parent involvement increases attendance from 74.8% to 84.8% and cuts screen time for 57% of families.
Now
The software that puts the research into every dojo. Automated grading. Parent visibility. A progression system that makes every class feel like it counts. Built by the person who spent thirty years watching what happens without it.
04 — The insight
A child trains twice a week. That is roughly 120 minutes of structured feedback. The other 10,060 minutes happen at home, with no visibility, no acknowledgment, no reinforcement.
Parents want to be involved. They just have nothing to connect to. Grading happens every three months. Three months is a long time to wait. Most kids don't.
Every session. Every skill. Every child. Visible to the parent the moment class ends.
Coaches grade Technique, Effort, Focus, and Discipline after every class. Parents see it in the app before the drive home is over. No more "how was class?" and "fine."
Every student gets a projected black belt date. Built from their actual training frequency and grading pace. Not a guess. A trajectory. One that moves when they train harder.
Reads every grading note ever written about a child and turns it into one specific, science-backed action to take at home this week. Dweck, Ericsson, and Deci methods.
XP that can only be earned on the mat. Physical challenges, daily quests, family competitions. The game is real only because the training is real.
Parent subscriptions create a second income line for the school. Retention is now measurable. Churn is visible before it happens. The ROI is calculable before you commit.
We move your roster, belt ranks, and history for you. No setup fee. No friction at the start. The part every dojo owner dreads is the part we handle.
JPES · Vol. 25 · April 2025 · Scopus indexed
JISEM · Vol. 10 · No. 17s · 2025 · Scopus indexed
07 — The commitment
Not just the ones whose parents happened to know how to keep them motivated. Not just the ones at schools that could afford to track everything manually. That is why we built MyTaek — to close the gap between the child who quits at yellow belt and the one who didn't.
