Development started late January of 2024, when athlete Keller Hydle started programming an idea he had in mind for years; a competition run planning app. The idea was born when Keller's Dad, Jeremy Hydle, created a trick planning sheet template (below) that could be printed out on paper and drawn on.
This sheet template later spiraled into the idea that you could drag and drop course features, draw your line along the course, and label tricks on that drawn path. Keller says he still has these templates in a folder on his desk, to forever remember what created MPRUN.
As you may know, everything is in a constant change. That's why MPRUN was created, to help improve adapting to this constant change.
Tricks are getting harder in competitions, and nowadays mental game is 90% part of it. Our main goal is to help increase the performance of your mental game by using a simple technic, Physical Visualization. Physical Visualization (PZ), is the process of taking something we normally visualize in our brain and putting it on a physical object (like a piece of paper). MPRUN does exactly that, where you draw your competition run and print it out to a piece of paper. You can even export your run and save it to your phone.
PZ does not guarantee perfect results; it is a tool that can be used to ASSIST athletes (our full disclaimer can be found in the "DISCLAIMER" window shown on startup of MPRUN).
Open source software is a common thing, so you'll see a lot of programs that are heavily complex and are really there just to say "We're Open Source!" But that's what makes us different. Rather than focusing on our "fancy source code", we designed a software that uses common layouts and colors similar to other programs. This means that with any prior software knowledge (or none at all) you don't have to "Learn to navigate the UI". Everything is facing you, all at once, no countless documentation reading on how to change a lightbulb. You can even customize the UI and colors to fit your needs. Basically, it's all packed into one simple package.