AI Self-Defense Coach
AI Self Defense Coach
Check the reps you do alone.
mmaGPT is an AI self-defense coach: film a drill, upload it, and in about 30 to 45 seconds you get timestamped notes on what went wrong and a drill to fix it, to bring to your next class.
Upload a striking drill, a release from a hold or a ground defense rep. mmaGPT checks your base, your strike mechanics, your guard and whether you move off the line of attack.
An AI self-defense coach, on demand.
Self-defense training has a specific problem: the situations it prepares you for are rare, so you almost never find out whether your technique holds. What you do get is repetitions, and repetitions build whatever habit they contain. If your hand drops after every strike in the garage, it will drop under stress too. If you back up in a straight line during pad work, that is what your feet will do when somebody moves at you. None of this is visible from the inside of the movement, and most people train self-defense one or two evenings a week with an instructor who has a full room to watch.
mmaGPT is an AI self-defense coach that reviews a 20 to 60 second clip of your training. It checks whether your strikes carry your body weight or just your arm, whether your wrist stays straight on palm heels and hammerfists, whether your hands come back to your head, whether you move off the line of attack instead of straight backwards, and whether your base survives the exchange. It returns timestamped notes on what went wrong plus one drill to fix it, in plain language, calibrated to your experience level. Defensive problems come first, because in self-defense the mistake that gets you hurt matters more than the one that looks untidy.
It works alongside your instructor, never instead of one. Contact skills, pressure testing and anything involving a weapon need a qualified coach and a live partner in a room. What mmaGPT covers is the other half: the solo and drilled repetitions nobody is watching, which is where most habits actually form. Film on your phone, upload in the browser, and bring the drill to your next class.
It works as an AI self defense trainer between classes: you film, it reviews, your coach stays in charge.
What we coach in Self-Defense
The techniques that move the needle.
Strike mechanics under pressure
Whether punches, palm heels, elbows and hammerfists carry your hips and body weight or come from the arm alone, and whether your wrist stays straight at contact.
Hands and head position
Where your hands go after each strike. The rear hand dropping on the way back is the most common fault in self-defense footage, and the hardest one to feel.
Moving off the line
Whether you step to an angle or retreat in a straight line. Straight-line retreat keeps you in range of everything with none of your weight behind your own strikes.
Base and recovery
Whether your balance survives kicks, knees and releases from holds, and how fast you recover a fighting base afterwards.
How it works
Clip in. Drill out.
Upload your clip
A 20 to 60 second clip of pad work, shadow drilling or a partner drill.
Frame-level analysis
Our analysis engine reads your video, grading technique against your discipline and skill level.
Get a drill ladder
Not just feedback. A specific drill progression you can take to your next session.
Online self-defense coaching
An online self-defense coach that works around your schedule.
Most people who train self-defense get one or two hours of instruction a week and do the rest alone. That solo time decides what your body does under stress, and it is completely unsupervised. With mmaGPT you film a drill on your phone, upload it in the browser, and get feedback in about a minute. Take the drill to your next class and ask your instructor to check it.
Built by a world champion
Championship-level perspective on training.
FAQ
AI Self-Defense coach: common questions.
- Yes. mmaGPT is an AI self-defense app that reviews your training video and gives you the one fix that matters most, with timestamped notes and a drill. It is a web app that works in any browser on your phone or computer, and your first session is free.
- mmaGPT is a web app, so it runs in the browser on your iPhone or Android phone with nothing to download; open mmagpt.app and your first self-defense review is free. A native app is in development.
- You can learn the basics of self defense from an app like mmaGPT, but you still need partner training with a qualified instructor to make it work under pressure. It tells you that your hand drops or that you retreat in a straight line, which is the part you cannot see yourself, while pressure testing with a partner and a qualified instructor remains essential.
- mmaGPT works with the striking and grappling that self-defense systems are built from, covering 11 disciplines including Krav Maga, boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing, wrestling and BJJ. Pick the discipline closest to what is in the clip and the feedback is calibrated for it.
- Your first session is free. Plans are Lite $9 a month for 3 sessions, Starter $19 for 8, Pro $29 for 16 and Elite $49 for 45. Session packs start at $3.99.
- Yes: your first mmaGPT self defense review is free with no card needed, and it gives you timestamped notes on what went wrong plus a drill to fix it. After that, plans start at $9 a month, as shown on /pricing.
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See the full picture on our AI MMA coach overview or read more about Self-Defense training on mmaGPT.