Mission

Our mission is to empower martial artists to track and showcase their training and preserve their lineages and hard-won achievements for generations to come.

  • Martial Arts skills are difficult to acquire, difficult to share, difficult to quantify, difficult to brag about, and easily lost. They can only be passed from warm hand to warm hand. Martial arts schools have difficulty tracking and documenting student progress, and students struggle to demonstrate their skills and achievements. It is challenging to ensure that any school's lineage will continue beyond the current generation.

  • With the DojoPop App and Global Virtual Dojo, instructors can easily manage and motivate their schools and students, and students can document their achievements and protect traditional martial arts lineages while archiving practice logs, techniques, video.

  • The global martial arts industry is a blue ocean market valued at over $60 billion, with hundreds of millions of practitioners and thousands of schools worldwide. Be it boxing, MMA, BJJ, Taekwondo, Karate, Kendo, et al, there is a significant opportunity for a platform like DojoPop to address the needs of this market. Add on the AR, VR, and gaming oppos and this is a blue ocean market.

Dojo - Proof of Practice

DojoPop is not just a mobile app, it's membership to a Global virtual community Dojo that allows martial arts schools and students to track and verify their training and progress and rent out their IRL skill-building and level ups to gamers. Schools easily validate their own nodes for Proof of Practice. DojoPop is designed to be user-friendly with an intuitive Zen aesthetic UI.

The global martial arts industry is a blue ocean market valued at over $60 billion, with hundreds of millions of practitioners and thousands of schools worldwide. Be it boxing, MMA, BJJ, Taekwondo, Karate, Kendo, et al, there is a significant opportunity for a platform like DojoPop to address the needs of this market. Add on the AR, VR, and gaming oppos and this is a blue ocean market.

Here is the problem:

Martial Arts skills are difficult to acquire, difficult to share, difficult to quantify, difficult to brag about, and easily lost. 

They can only be passed from warm hand to warm hand.

Martial arts schools have difficulty tracking and documenting student progress, and students struggle to demonstrate their skills and achievements.

 It is challenging to ensure that any school's lineage will continue beyond the current generation.

Today there are about 600 million people actively practicing martial arts who all share this problem.  BJJ, MMA, Karate, etc.

Dojopop - Dojo Proof of Practice solves this problem.

Meet the Team

Zorie Robert Barber - FNDR


  • Founder

    Zorie Barber is an Italian American named after his Sicilian Grandfather, Rosario Barbera and related to Betsy Ross on his mother’s side. He grew up in Philadelphia, graduating from the prestigious Germantown Friends School and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At the age of 19, Zorie moved to Kyoto, Japan to practice Aikido at the Osaka Tenshin Dojo and augmented his Aikido practice by studying Oriental Medicine and acupuncture at Emperor’s College in Santa Monica, Ca.

Paul Martin- Dojopop Cultural Attaché - Japanese Sword Expert, All Britian, All Styles Karate Champion - The Japanese Sword

Kuwami Masakumo - Samurai Culture Expert

Kuwami Masakumo Sensei Tenshinryu 10th shike


  • Design Director

    Kuwami Sensei is the 10th Grandmaster of the 400+ year old Japanese martial arts school, Tenshinryu Hyoho.