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The technique library

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The technique library is a reference of 3,964 entries across twenty arts: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling, MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, nine styles of Karate, two of Taekwondo, and Yoga.

It is there so an instructor writing a curriculum, or a member trying to remember the name of the thing they drilled on Tuesday, has somewhere to look that is not a search engine.

How it is arranged

An art The ones your academy teaches, and nothing else A group Chokes, passes, kicks, hip openers One entry Its name, its Sanskrit or Japanese name, what it does Narrowing it down Search by name or alias Filter by difficulty Jump straight to a group Every entry carries the level it sits at: fundamental, intermediate or advanced.

You see only the arts your academy teaches. A karate dojo opening the library gets kata and kumite, not guard passes. That comes from the arts set under Settings, so if the library looks wrong, that is the place to correct it.

Inside an art, entries sit in groups: chokes, passes and sweeps in BJJ; nage-waza and ne-waza in Judo; hip openers and inversions in Yoga. Every entry carries the name people actually use, the Sanskrit or Japanese name where it has one, the aliases it is also known by, a plain description of what it does, and a level: fundamental, intermediate or advanced.

Search matches the name, the original-language name and the aliases, so "juji gatame", "armbar" and "cross armlock" all find the same entry.

Techniques know their neighbours

One technique is a junction, not a dead end What it sets up Where this leads next What counters it And what you do then What it becomes Variations and progressions

This is the half most people miss. An entry is not a dead end: it is linked to the techniques around it. BJJ alone carries 721 of these links.

A technique can set up another, transition to it, chain to it, counter it, lead somewhere else if it fails, be an escape to something, be a progression to a harder version, be a variation of something else, or combine with it.

That is what turns a reference into something you can teach from. Open the armbar and you can see what it sets up, what defends it, and what you do when the defence works.

What an academy uses it for

Building a curriculum. The syllabus builder draws from the same library, so a module is a list of real techniques rather than free text somebody has to keep re-typing.

Class recaps and session notes. What a class covered can be recorded against the library, which is what makes it searchable afterwards.

A member's own record. Each member has a list of what they have actually practised, gathered from the classes they attended and the sessions they logged. It answers "have we done this?" without anybody keeping a notebook.

Your own art

If your academy teaches something the library does not hold, add it under Settings as your own discipline: your name, your levels or belts. It works everywhere else in MatPilot immediately.

For the library specifically, an art you add is matched by name. Call it Yoga and it opens the Yoga library; call it Boxing and it opens Boxing. Give it a name of its own and it stays empty for now, which is the honest answer rather than showing you somebody else's moves. Tell us what you teach and we will look at building it.

What it is not

It is a reference, not a syllabus and not instruction. It says what a technique is and how it relates to others; it does not claim to teach anyone how to do one safely. That is what the person at the front of the room is for.