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SportsSkill-A sports Edtech and Performance platform for every sports enthusiast who believes to achieve

• ByStartupStory     |    September 2, 2022

As an entrepreneur it is important to do your research and execute your plans perfectly. Keep your head down, stay focused, believe in the system, and work hard. When you are moving in the right direction you will definitely get good results and remember that it’s never too late to start something new and bring a change in the world,”  Abhinav Sinha (Founder)and Chetan Desai, (Co-founder),  SportsSkill in an exclusive interview with Startup Story.

We are a generation who loves to capture all the experiences we face in life, be it something that’s extremely basic for us or even a life changing moment. But are we actually able to do so when it comes to capturing or even just keeping a note of our daily progress in a sport we truly love to invest our time in and be able to analyse each and every aspect of the skills acquired by us? Imagine having someone who could constantly analyse your performance and with that analysis give you feedback to enhance your performance that will always help you improve as a sports enthusiast would want with their performance.

That is where this multi-solution virtual platform comes into play. SportsSkill is that trusted partner you are looking for in your performance improvement journey that is made for sports enthusiasts of all ages, who would want to get better every single day with their performance and it does not end here! A bonus adding up to this platform is how it also finds a suitable competitor for actual level-up practice/match sessions and in the future will support its users physically as well as psychologically understanding  how important nutrition and mental health are in a sports person’s life.

What led to the ideation of SportsSkill?

In an exclusive interview with Startup Story, founder Abhinav Sinha and co-founder Chetan Desai, Abhinav Sinha mentioned, “When I had my academy at the Cricket Club of India, Mumbai and Pune as well where I was training few national level players and faced issues in tracing excel sheets.  Researching our premise with coaches across sports both domestically and internationally, we realised the huge gap in the sports ecosystem and its management that we have been seeing since so long and at around 2019 we started our research to find a solution to this problem.”

The whole premise of the application SportsSkill gives its users a complete reporting system that comes on the app for players themselves, parents, coaches to know their progress in the sport. The Founders also mentioned how coaches are making immense efforts on their players but due to lack of communication, their efforts go in vain as  there is a lack of tech support to players, coaches and academies.

Chetan Desai added, “The problem of this issue has never been answered in a holistic way as i remember a parent asking me 40 years ago on how a coach was asked by parents how their child was playing, at most times, the answer would be in  very generic statements like “ doing very well, improving etc etc because of  lack of data and tech.”

 The SportsSkill platform enables the players and coaches to come together to bring a change in their sporting career and that’s where the holistic nature of Sports Skill assumes huge significance on a global scale across the masses.

What makes this even more important is how we have so many players who invest all their time and money into sports passionately making an effort to do things the right way,aspiring to be the next global star  and trying their best in making a mark in their professional career. Any sports aspirant can be educated through the accurate data SportsSkill produces over a lifespan of their careers.

How can Sports Skill help you?

SportsSkill is the solution that emphasises the science of performance improvement.

The measurable, capability-enhancing insights platform is ready to help its users with a 360-degree solution, whether it be for a developing athlete dreaming of making it big, a professional athlete hungry for more, a coach looking to broaden coverage, or just someone who loves sports. The solution addresses all aspects of sport-related importance, including technique, endurance, performance, health, and wellbeing. Sports training requires an affordable technological intervention to complement grit and commitment in order to advance performance. 

With 20 years of rich experience from Abhinav Sinha and 5 decades of experience from Chetan Desai in the sports industry, they have fully understood the need for this application with insightful and intensive research and execution making it simple for sportspersons to make the most out of their performance. This need was communicated  by various coaches and players. 

The application helps users track data by creating a smart report based on their performance, attendance, and well-being. It keeps a track on the player before and after sessions by relying on human feeds, which will in turn help find talented players  across India in various sports and fitness.  Each sport is different from the other, its requirements differ dramatically and SportsSkill understands the various  aspects of how it can impact the players performance. 

The advent of new leagues in various sports have boosted up the sudden demand for sports players and it’s great to know that a lot of talent is seen from the tier 2 and 3 cities giving a boost to the entire sports fraternity. Consequently, the performance of the sports players and enthusiasts have become an important measure to boost one’s capabilities.This is where the SportsSkill platform/app brings that kind of tech in the hands of coaches and organisations which monitor results and take the right measures. 

The enthusiasm with which India is taking up sports at both, the domestic and international level makes SportsSkill play a very vital role in the sports Ecosystem. Since everyone is engaged in sports nowadays especially after covid, being extra careful about their health and fitness, the app can add up to this newly generated interest thanks to TV and social media platforms.

New Developments in the future

The startup plans to expand the services it will provide by giving equal importance to players nutrition as well as help them psychologically. The founders of SportsSkill explained “Since every player is different and the sport they play would differ too Sports Skill will be able to give a smart, dynamic and an individualist report. On days players do not get enough sleep and have to perform extremely hard the next day, the application lets the coaches know that the player might not be ready for the intense session as they are not physically prepared. Hence the sessions can be conducted with lessened intensity as it would have been when the player would have managed good sleep.”

The application will have many interesting features that will push sports enthusiasts to stay fit and be motivated at all time.  Users  will be driven to overcome and achieve, and when they do so they are rewarded with Skillcoins. What is more important is that it helps users watch their own journey, how far they have come as a sports player. In  stages when one experiences low biorhythms they can always have a look at their best performance which would motivate them to resume efforts  towards achieving their goals.

The platform would allow users to play with other competitors which would help them with their performance within close proximity and also find similar levels of players, along with this the sports edutech platform SportsSkill has its skill coins that keeps its users invested  in their sport they are interested in. All the features on the app catalyses the entire process of building and enhancing the sports ecosystem of the country as well.

Adding more to that, Chetan Desai shared, “I started playing tennis when I was 5 years old. At the age of 10 I used to have a single-hand backhand. By the age of 18 I had changed my game to incorporate a double-hand backhand. Now at the age of 63 I again have a single-hand backhand. As memories, I can at best describe these changes because I have no record or even a video of how my game evolved or how efficient it was or how much time it took. Consequently, the video features of this app will be of huge significance and benefit.”

Once the company’s MVP will be launched around the last week of September, 2022 with B2B2C services, it looks forward to planning its expansion in various cities in India and a few other countries as well by the year-end with B2C services also. It is interesting to know that the brand will have a video gallery feature where coaches can have a track on their athlete even when both of them are at completely different corners of the world, the data that will get stored and coaches will have the ease to give feedback to its user and also helping other players improve watching it too!

 

 

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