AI Kickboxing Coach
Your hands should set up your kicks. Film a sparring round on your phone and DARCE reads your punches, kicks and defense, then shows you where a combination breaks down and the one fix to drill. Pick Striking when you upload.
From one round to a sharper combination.
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Film
Record a kickboxing spar on your phone, hands and feet in the same shot. One fixed angle is enough: no rig, no markers, no sensors.
Clip 01 · 01:45 · single angle
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Analyze
DARCE reads your punches, your kicks, the way you chain them and how you defend.
38 exchanges · 64 strikes read
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Breakdown
See which combinations land and which get answered, and the habit behind it: the low kick thrown with no setup, the chin that lifts after the cross.
Weakest: low kick with no setup
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Drill
It hands you the one fix to drill next, like finishing your punches on a kick, with the timestamp of the exchange that showed it.
Drill next: jab-cross-low kick
A trainer’s eye on every round.
- Technique library
- 31 striking techniques mapped step by step, from the jab-cross to the switch kick, inside a library of 90+.
- Weakness detection
- Find the combination you lean on too often before an opponent starts reading it.
- Personalized drills
- Fixes from the combinations you actually throw, each pinned to the exchange in your clip, not a generic bag workout.
- Progress tracking
- Every round you upload moves your Fighter IQ against your own average, so you can see if the new work is showing up in sparring.
- Hands and feet
- Punches and kicks read as one game, from the first jab of a combination to the kick that ends it.
- Defense counts too
- Blocks, checks and slips are part of the read, not just what you throw.
Your combinations, in the striking library
Every technique is broken into steps, key details and common mistakes.
Key facts about DARCE
- DARCE analyses a filmed round of live sparring, read position by position across the whole round, in BJJ, wrestling, striking and MMA, and the same four analyses read sparring in Muay Thai, kickboxing, judo, sambo, no-gi grappling and other martial arts.
- The analysis is not limited to a technique list: it names what happens in the round from a vocabulary of 260+ positions, moves and finishes across the four martial arts, while the 90+ technique library is a separate step-by-step reference you can read free on darce.app.
- A DARCE breakdown has four parts: a round summary of who controlled the round and where it turned, a position timeline mapped to the second, the key moments that decided it, and up to 3 fixes, each tied to the moment it happened with one line on why.
- A breakdown is usually ready one to two minutes after the upload finishes.
- Film on your phone from a single fixed angle, in landscape, at about chest height for stand-up and higher, angled down, for rolling; no rig, sensors or markers are needed, and a round of up to 2 minutes can be analysed.
- DARCE is a mobile app for iOS and Android with no web or desktop version; it is in private beta, onboarding the first 50 founding testers from the waitlist at darce.app/join, and is not yet publicly downloadable.
- DARCE is free for founding testers during the beta, and pricing after the beta has not been announced.
Questions before you start.
Can an AI really coach kickboxing?
Not the way your trainer does on the pads. What DARCE gives you is the film review most kickboxers never get: your combinations and kicks read, and one habit to work on next.
Does DARCE score my rounds under K-1 or points rules?
No. It is not a judge. It reads the exchanges in your sparring, your punches, kicks and defense. It keeps no scorecard under K-1, points or any other rules.
What footage do I need?
Just your phone. A single fixed angle of a live sparring round is enough. No rig, no sensors, no markers.
What does it cost?
Founding testers get free access through the beta. Pricing comes later, and early testers will have a say in it.